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ICSE Class 10 Answered

Explain any five functions of the WHO.
Asked by Topperlearning User | 16 Oct, 2015, 02:06: PM
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Following are five important functions of the WHO:

  1. The WHO assists countries in improving their health system by building up infrastructure, especially manpower, institutions and services for the individual and the community.
  2. The WHO provides important drugs required for proper medical care. It has a programme intended to immunise children against six major diseases - Measles, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Tuberculosis, Polio and Whooping Cough.
  3. It promotes research aimed at discovering the cure and prevention of diseases. For example, it arranged for the investigation of cancer and heart diseases in laboratories in many countries in order to identify disease causing organisms, to improve vaccines and to train research workers.
  4. WHO organises conferences, seminars and training for healthcare personnel from a plethora of countries.
  5. It makes express efforts to provide safe drinking water and adequate waste disposal. The decade 1981-1990 was declared as the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade.
Answered by | 16 Oct, 2015, 04:06: PM

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