Provide examples that show how the WHO is involved with global health care assistance.
Explain the role that the WHO plays in the prevention of communicable diseases.
Select 7 foreign countries, and briefly describe the communicable disease situation in the selected countries. Include your statistics in a table format.
What are the possible sources of financing for programs like the one in which you are involved?
The World Health Organization (WHO) primary role is to help countries around the world to combat infectious diseases and as well as non-communicable ones, such as cancer and heart diseases. They concentrate on assisting on a global scale and have leadership priorities that guides them where to focus on their work. Such as Universal Health coverage - giving financial protection to prevent illnesses that would lead them to poverty. For cancer and other non-communicable diseases (NCD)-the Who recognizes that, the lifestyle and the living conditions are a huge contributor to a person's quality of life. They are trying to decrease the mortality rate with medical technologies, medication, education and solutions of rehabilitations; primarily those who are yet to have been diagnosed, but smoke & drink that could lead into these types of diseases.
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Cambodia
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Haiti
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Nigeria
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Papua-New Guinea
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South Africa
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Thailand
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Vietnam
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