Mental Illness in General Health Care: An International Study. Edited by T.B. Ustun and N. Sartorius. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons for the World Health Organization. 1995. 398 pp. £50.00 (hb).

1996 ◽  
Vol 169 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-121
Author(s):  
Denis Pereira Gray
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
General Health ◽  
International Study ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

scholarly journals The World Health Organization's QualityRights materials for training, guidance and transformation: preventing coercion but marginalising psychiatry

2021 ◽  
Vol 218 (5) ◽  
pp. 240-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Hoare ◽  
Richard M. Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
Involuntary Treatment ◽  
Training Material ◽  
The World ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Health Organization

SummaryThe World Health Organization has developed training material to support its QualityRights Initiative. These documents offer excellent strategies to limit coercion. However, the negative portrayal of psychiatry, the absolute prohibition on involuntary treatment and the apparent acceptance of the criminalisation of individuals with mental illness are causes for concern.

Vaccines for Peace: An Incentive for Developing Countries

1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-89
Author(s):  
Graham S. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
World Health ◽  
Natural Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Threats ◽  
Health Organization

The Article in the August, 1992 issue of Politics and the Life Sciences by Erhard Geissler proposing the establishment of an international Vaccines for Peace (VFP) program to undertake research on and production of vaccines against pathogens (and possible toxins) that pose natural health threats is warmly welcomed. VFP is designed to contribute to health care in developing countries and to enhance international cooperation in biotechnology; it would be administered by the World Health Organization (WHO). Such a program would bring real and tangible benefits to developing countries and encourage participation by such countries in the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention signed in 1972.

scholarly journals Pakistan’s Response to COVID-19: Overcoming National and International Hypes to Fight the Pandemic (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hashaam Akhtar ◽  
Maham Afridi ◽  
Samar Akhtar ◽  
Hamaad Ahmad ◽  
Sabahat Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
World Health ◽  
High Population ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

UNSTRUCTURED The COVID-19 outbreak started as pneumonia in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The subsequent pandemic was declared as the sixth public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020, by the World Health Organization. Pakistan could be a potential hotspot for COVID-19 owing to its high population of 204.65 million and its struggling health care and economic systems. Pakistan was able to tackle the challenge with relatively mild repercussions. The present analysis has been conducted to highlight the situation of the disease in Pakistan in 2020 and the measures taken by various stakeholders coupled with support from the community to abate the risk of catastrophic spread of the virus.

scholarly journals Public health fault lines in the fight against COVID-19: Lessons from Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-262
Author(s):  
Saikou Omar Sillah ◽  
Xu Yihua
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
World Health ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

On 31st December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) was notified of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause detected in the Wuhan, Hubei Province of China which eventually was named to be the Corona virus disease. In response to the rapid spread of the virus, WHO declared it a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30th January, 2020. As per the quest to recharge the COVID-19 response power, there is seemingly little or no tangible plans to help permanently reorient Africa’s health care system. In the wake of widespread vaccine nationalism, donor countries continue to secure large quantities of vaccines from developers and manufacturers, causing global disparity in access to COVID-19 vaccines.

scholarly journals Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. xlix-l
Author(s):  
Shehzad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Global Health ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Disaster Capitalism ◽  
Global Health Care ◽  
The One ◽  
Health Organization

One of the major themes of the book is to recognize the seriousness of the situation and its possible outcomes. Žižek informs us that the only possible way to face the challenge is to realize that world leaders should unite and develop a global health care system presided over by the World Health organization. As it is obvious that almost every crisis creates opportunities of some kind Žižek seems to argue that in the current disaster there is potential for communism (though not the one of 20th century type but the one) based on human cooperation. As he says: “it should be a disaster communism as an antidote to the disaster capitalism.”

Oral Health Care Systems: An International Collaborative Study Coordinated by the World Health Organization

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Max H. Schoen ◽  
Harald A. Arnljot ◽  
David E. Barmes ◽  
Lois K. Cohen ◽  
Peter B. V. Hunter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Collaborative Study ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
International Collaborative Study
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