World Health Organization (WHO)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7076948 |
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| Authors | Geoffrey B Cockerham (Utah Valley University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos2009 |
| OpenAlex | W4407743453 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations' specialized agency for global health, whose goal is to achieve the highest level of health for all people. In pursing this objective, the WHO has to balance a biomedical approach to health with an emphasis on vertical health programs and the social determinants of health with a focus on primary healthcare. The WHO's most successful health campaign has been the eradication of smallpox in the 1970s. More recently the organization has faced significant challenges in responding to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014–2016 and the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020
Business · Global Health and Surgery · Global Maternal and Child Health · Healthcare Systems and Reforms
| Highly cited | No |
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