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World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as other related organizations. In 1948, the WHO held the First World Health Assembly. The Assembly decided to celebrate 7 April of each year, with effect from 1950, as the World Health Day.
The World Health Report 2006 (WHR2006) highlighted the estimated shortage of almost 4.3 million doctors, nurses, midwives, and other health human resources worldwide, calling the situation a "global health workforce crisis". The report laid out a ten-year action plan for building national health workforces through better training, recruitment ...
World Health Observances mark a period which is often used to promote an issue and mobilize for action. Below follows a list of days and months which have been denoted as health related observances. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The World Health Organization announces that the number of people killed by measles declined by 48% between 1999 and 2004, from 871,000 to 454,000. The greatest decline, 60%, was in sub-Saharan Africa .
Dr. Margaret Chan, former director of Hong Kong Health Department, represented China to win the nomination to the Director-General of the World Health Organization. (Peoples' Daily Online), At least 42 people die and 20 people are injured in a bomb blast outside an army training centre in north-west Pakistan.
Its constitution formally came into force on the first World Health Day on 7 April 1948, when it was ratified by the 26th member state. [21] The WHO formally began its work on September 1, 1948. [6] The first meeting of the World Health Assembly finished on 24 July 1948, having secured a budget of US$5 million (then £1,250,000) for the 1949 ...
The U.S. Institute of Peace announces that the Iraq Study Group report will be released to the public December 6, 2006. The group, charged with conducting a forward-looking assessment of the situation in Iraq, is expected to present their findings to President George W. Bush on that day. The report will be available for download on USIP's web site.
World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director: James T. Morris: United States: 2002-2006 [19] Josette Sheeran: 2006–2012 [20] [21] World Health Organization (WHO) director-general: Lee Jong-wook: South Korea: 2004-2006 [22] Anders Nordström: Sweden: 2006 (acting) [23] Margaret Chan: China: 2006–2017 [24] World Meteorological Organization ...