What Does The WHO
(World Health Organization) Do?
WHO means (World Health Organization), WHO works worldwide to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable.
WHO (World Health Organization) goal is to ensure that a billion more people have universal health coverage, to protect a billion more people from health emergencies, and provide a further billion people with better health and well-being.
For universal health coverage, WHO (World Health Organization):
- Focus on primary health care to improve access to quality essential services
- Work towards sustainable financing and financial protection
- Improve access to essential medicines and health products
- Train the health workforce and advise on labour policies
- Support people's participation in national health policies
- Improve monitoring, data and information.
For health emergencies, WHO (World Health Organization):
- Prepare for emergencies by identifying, mitigating and managing risks
- Prevent emergencies and support development of tools necessary during outbreaks
- Detect and respond to acute health emergencies
- Support delivery of essential health services in fragile settings.
For health and well-being WHO (World Health Organization):
- Address social determinants
- Promote intersectoral approaches for health
- Prioritize health in all policies and healthy settings.
Through our work, WHO (World Health Organization) address:
- Human capital across the life-course
- Noncommunicable diseases prevention
- Mental health promotion
- Climate change in small island developing states
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Elimination and eradication of high-impact communicable diseases.
What Does The WHO (World Health Organization) Do?