World Health Organization Publication : The First Ten Years of the World Health Organization - Foreword: The First Ten Years of the World Health Organization

By World Health Organization

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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	World Health Organization Publication : The First Ten Years of the World Health Organization - Foreword: The First Ten Years of the World Health Organization
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
Ten years ago today, with the coming into force of its Constitution on 7 April 1948, the World Health Organization took its place among the specialized agencies established under the Charter of the United Nations. In this anniversary publication, which it is my privilege to present, an effort has been made not only to review the history of these past ten years but also to place the events of that period against the background of previous achievements, and to indicate the broad lines along which future activities could develop. The problems raised, the dificulties encountered, the solutions adopted, have been recorded as soberly and objectively as possible. Although the period under review is short as compared with the tasks to be accomplished, I believe that all those who from the outset have had faith in the Organization's aims and ideals willjind in this Report the justijication of their hopes and evidence that tangible, even $as yet modest, results have been achieved.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii PART I .. EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH Chapter I . The International Sanitary Conferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 . Earlier International Health Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . 15 PART I1 . ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION 3 . The San Francisco Recomn~endations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 4 . The Technical Preparatory Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 5 . The International Health Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 6 . The Interim Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 7 . Structural Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 8 . Membership and Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 9 . Preparation of the Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 10 . A Co-operative Endeavour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 PART 111 . TEN YEARS OF WORK I 1 . Methods and Needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 . Malaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 . Tuberculosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 . Venereal Diseases and Treponen~atoses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 . Virus Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 . Zoonoses and Veterinary Public Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 . Other Con~mi~nicablDe iseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 . International Quarantine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 . Epidenliological and Health Statistical Services . . . . . . . . . 20 . Atomic Energy in relation to Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 . Environmental Sanitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 . Nutrition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 . Mental Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 . Health Services and Medical Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 . Maternal and Child Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 . Health Education of the Public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 . Education and Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 . Nursing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 . Pharn~aceutical Standards and Nomenclature . . . . . . . . . . 30 . Biological Standardization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1 . Addiction-producing Drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 . Health Laboratory Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 . Publications and Reference Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 . Public Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .