World Health Organization

Overhaul or Dismantle

Bibliographic Data

ID11021278
AuthorsSuwit Wibulpolprasert (0000-0001-7959-5665, Suwit Wibulpolprasert is with the International Health Policy Programme, Bangkok, Thailand. Mushtaque Chowdhury is with BRAC (formerly Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), Dhaka, Bangladesh and the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.), Mushtaque Chowdhury (Suwit Wibulpolprasert is with the International Health Policy Programme, Bangkok, Thailand. Mushtaque Chowdhury is with BRAC (formerly Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), Dhaka, Bangladesh and the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.)
Year2016
Volume106
Issue11
Pages1910-1911
Publication date2016-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2016.303469
PMID27715308
OpenAlexW2527740206
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited2

The authors reflect on whether the World Health Organization (WHO) can be reformed or if it needs to be dismantled as of 2016, and it mentions the history of United Nations agencies, the WHO's global public health leadership role, and the challenges that the WHO faces in relation to the World Bank, private foundations, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, & Malaria financing organization. WHO-related bureaucracy and organization inertia are assessed

Bureaucracy · Economic growth · Economics · Global health · Malaria · Political science · Politics · Public health · Public relations · Relation (database) · Tuberculosis · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Public Administration