World Health Organization

Overhaul or Dismantle

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11021278
AutoresSuwit 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.)
Ano2016
Volume106
Fascículo11
Páginas1910-1911
Data de publicação2016-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditoraAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2016.303469
PMID27715308
OpenAlexW2527740206
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas2

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

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