The World Health Organization
By: by Yves Beigbeder ; with the collaboration of Mahyar Nashat, Marie-Antoinette Orsini, and Jean-François Tiercy.
Contributors: Nashat, Mahyar.; Orsini, Marie-Antoinette.; Tiercy, J. F.; Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland); Società italiana per l'organizzazione internazionale.
Series: International organization and the evolution of world society ;; v. 4
Publisher: M. Nijhoff; Springer
Published: 1998
Place of publication: The Hague; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: World Health Organization -- History.
Description: This work presents the broad lines of the action & evolution of the World Health Organization (WHO). It identifies some of the problems WHO has had to face in the past, & will have to confront in the future. It discusses in detail the historical origins, WHO's objectives, & the evolution of its strategy & programmes. It reviews its structures as well as the problems raised by its decentralization. It examines the Organization's action in the field of technical cooperation & looks into several of WHO's more important past & present programmes. In its general conclusion, it attempts to envisage the future of the Organization. The present study is based essentially on the official documentation of the WHO, open & restricted. The strength of this book lies in the personal experience of the main author, a former WHO official, who has orientated the book's research in specific directions & has added some complementary information.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-198) and index.
At head of title: The Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Società italiana per l'organizzazione internazionale, Roma.