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One of the most spectacularly successful large-scale programme undertaken by WHO was the attempt to achieve worldwide eradication of smallpox. By 1973, only seven countries are were affected by the disease, compared with 30 in 1967. However, the disease was endemic in only one country in Africa. Details Designer: Gabriel Ellison…

Preventive medicine aims to prevent sickness before it happens. The ideology behind preventive medicine focuses on protecting, promoting, and maintaining health and well-being. It also aims to avert disease, disability, and death on an individual basis, as well as on a large scale in communities and populations. During the 1950s,…

WHO recognised four nutritional deficiency diseases that, by their extent and social significance, caused the most serious public health problems in the developing countries. There were protein, calorie malnutrition, xerophthalmia, nutritional anaemias, and endemic goitre. In most WHO-assisted nutrition projects, the nutrition activities were carried out within the framework of…

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO was established on 7 April 1948. The first meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the agency’s governing body, took place on 24 July of that year. Its work began…