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    The World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the UN. Its objective is attaining the highest level of health for all people. WHO fulfills this through leadership, research, standards/norms, policy options, technical support, and monitoring health trends. The WHO agenda addresses health objectives like development and security, and strategic needs like strengthening systems and harnessing evidence. Key Millennium Development Goals included reducing poverty, hunger, disease, and child mortality. Significant progress was made, such as reducing child mortality and new HIV infections. However, more work remains to achieve all health-related development targets.

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    The World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the UN. Its objective is attaining the highest level of health for all people. WHO fulfills this through leadership, research, standards/norms, policy options, technical support, and monitoring health trends. The WHO agenda addresses health objectives like development and security, and strategic needs like strengthening systems and harnessing evidence. Key Millennium Development Goals included reducing poverty, hunger, disease, and child mortality. Significant progress was made, such as reducing child mortality and new HIV infections. However, more work remains to achieve all health-related development targets.

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    The World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the UN. Its objective is attaining the highest level of health for all people. WHO fulfills this through leadership, research, standards/norms, policy options, technical support, and monitoring health trends. The WHO agenda addresses health objectives like development and security, and strategic needs like strengthening systems and harnessing evidence. Key Millennium Development Goals included reducing poverty, hunger, disease, and child mortality. Significant progress was made, such as reducing child mortality and new HIV infections. However, more work remains to achieve all health-related development targets.

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    The Health Care Delivery System Millennium Declaration at the United Nation’s

    World Health Organization (WHO) Millennium Summit in 2000.


    Ø is the directing and coordinating authority for The following are the eight MDGs and the targets
    health within the United Nations system. corresponding to health-related MDGs – by the Year
    Ø states that its objective is the attainment by all 2015
    peoples of the highest possible level of health. u Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
    WHO fulfills its objectives through its core functions: u Achieve universal primary education
    1. providing leadership on matters critical to health u Promote gender equality and empower woman
    and engaging in partnerships where joint action u Reduce child mortality
    is needed; u Improve maternal health.
    2. shaping the research agenda and stimulating the u Combat HIV /AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.
    generation, translation, and dissemination of u Ensure environmental sustainability
    valuable knowledge; u Develop a global partnership for the development
    3. setting norms and standards and promoting and
    monitoring their implementation;
    4. articulating ethical and evidence-based policy
    options;
    5. providing technical support, catalyzing change,
    and building sustainable institutional capacity;
    and
    6. monitoring the health situation and assessing
    health trends.
    The WHO agenda
    u WHO operates in an increasingly complex and u Globally, the number of deaths of children under 5
    rapidly changing landscape. The boundaries of years of age fell from 12.7 million in 1990 to 6.3
    public health action have become blurred, million in 2013.
    extending into other sectors that influence u In developing countries, the percentage of
    health opportunities and outcomes. WHO underweight children under 5 years old dropped
    responds to these challenges using a six-point from 28% in 1990 to 17% in 2013.
    agenda. The six points address two health u Globally, new HIV infections declined by 38%
    objectives, two strategic needs, and two between 2001 and 2013.
    operational approaches. u Existing cases of tuberculosis are declining, along
    The WHO agenda with deaths among HIV-negative tuberculosis cases.
    u 1. Promoting development u In 2010, the world met the United Nations
    u 2. Fostering health security Millennium Development Goals target on access to
    u 3. Strengthening health systems safe drinking water, as measured by the proxy
    u 4. Harnessing research, information and indicator of access to improved drinking-water
    evidence sources, but more needs to be done to achieve the
    u 5. Enhancing partnerships sanitation target.
    u 6. Improving performance
    The MDGs have been superseded by the Sustainable
    What is a health system or health care delivery Development Goals
    system?
    Ø A health system consists of all the organizations,
    institutions, resources, and people whose primary
    purpose is to improve health.
    Ø This includes efforts to influence determinants of
    health as well as more direct health-improvement
    activities. The health system delivers preventive,
    promotive, curative, and rehabilitative interventions
    through a combination of public health actions and
    the pyramid of health care facilities that deliver
    personal healthcare.

    Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)


    u are eight goals with measurable targets and
    clear deadlines for improving the lives of the
    world's poorest people.
    u To meet these goals and eradicate poverty,
    leaders of 189 countries signed the historic

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