NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 866-867

The appointment of Dr. Martha Eliot, Associate Chief of the Children's Bureau, as Assistant Director General of the United Nations World Health Organization has been announced both in Washington and Geneva. It was also announced that Dr. Eliot had resigned from the Children's Bureau, which she had served for 25 years, and that Dr. Leona Baumgartner, on 6 months' leave as Assistant Commissioner of Health, New York City, has been appointed as Associate Chief of the Children's Bureau to fill Dr. Eliot's place. Dr. Eliot will go to Geneva, headquarters of the world organization and Dr. Baumgartner will come to Washington June 1.

1947 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-239 ◽  

The States parties to this Constitution declare, in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations, that the following principles are basic to the happiness, harmonious relations and security of all peoples:


Author(s):  
Yosef Dastagirzada ◽  
Olga Klauberg ◽  
Kathleen Sheerin ◽  
Seth Lieberman ◽  
Richard Lebowitz ◽  
...  

AbstractSoon after the World Health Organization declared the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 a global health emergency on January 30, 2020, New York City was plagued by the virus and its health system and economy pushed to their limits. The majority of the limited neurosurgical data in relation to COVID-19 is anecdotal and the higher theoretical risk of transmission of the virus among skull base aerosol generating (SBAG) cases has not been investigated or discussed in a neurosurgical population. We discuss a series of 13 patients who underwent 15 SBAG surgical procedures during the peak of COVID-19 in our hospital system and the protocols use perioperatively for their procedures. Our data support that with proper preoperative testing, a well-delineated surgical algorithm, and appropriate personal protective equipment, emergent/urgent cases can be done safely in hospitals that are currently experiencing high volumes of COVID-19 cases as we did in March to May of 2020.


2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 405-424
Author(s):  
Pia Acconci

The World Health Organization (who) was established in 1946 as a specialized agency of the United Nations (un). Since its establishment, the who has managed outbreaks of infectious diseases from a regulatory, as well as an operational perspective. The adoption of the International Health Regulations (ihrs) has been an important achievement from the former perspective. When the Ebola epidemic intensified in 2014, the who Director General issued temporary recommendations under the ihrs in order to reduce the spread of the disease and minimize cross-border barriers to international trade. The un Secretary General and then the Security Council and the General Assembly have also taken action against the Ebola epidemic. In particular, the Security Council adopted a resolution under Chapter vii of the un Charter, and thus connected the maintenance of the international peace and security to the health and social emergency. After dealing with the role of the who as a guide and coordinator of the reaction to epidemics, this article shows how the action by the Security Council against the Ebola epidemic impacts on the who ‘authority’ for the protection of health.


1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles S. Ascher

The International Health Conference, convened by the United Nations in New York in the summer of 1946, adopted a Constitution for a World Health Organization. It set up an Interim Commission of persons designated by eighteen named states to prepare for the First World Health Assembly and to carry on tasks inherited from previous international organizations. Unexpected delays in ratifications of the Constitution obliged the Interim Commission to operate for two years. WHO has thus been free to shape its destiny only from the time of the First World Health Assembly in the summer of 1948; it began its work formally as of September 1, 1948. The activities from 1946 to 1948 were largely determined by heritages from earner organizations; these, indeed, dominated the first program of WHO. The intervening three years have witnessed new trends, which some observers applaud and others view with doubt, if not alarm. It may be fruitful at this time to record some of these trends, to note the pressures which caused them and their implications for WHO's program and work-plan.


Author(s):  
Josh Reifer ◽  
Nosson Hayum ◽  
Benzion Heszkel ◽  
Ikey Klagsbald ◽  
Vincent A. Streva

ABSTRACTSevere Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a strain of coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and has been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. Total cases of SARS-CoV-2 worldwide exceed 4.8 million, with over 320,000 deaths recorded. Little is known about the body’s immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection. In this paper, we describe SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody responses in 28,523 patients from the New York City metropolitan area and report a SARS-CoV-2 IgG positivity rate of 44%, indicating the widespread nature of the pandemic in the city and state of New York. Additionally, for a subset of patients, we report on the correlation between SARS-CoV-2 patient symptom severity and level of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody found in the patient sample.


2009 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Tortoreto

Nell’anno 2008 i leaders del mondo si sono riuniti a New York per verificare il compimento degli obiettivi stabiliti nella Dichiarazione del Millennio, l’8 settembre 2000. Il quinto Obiettivo del Millennio delle Nazioni Unite è dedicato al miglioramento della salute materno-infantile. L’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità (OMS), il Fondo delle Nazioni Unite per la Popolazione (UNFPA), quello per l’Infanzia (UNICEF) e la Banca Mondiale hanno sottoscritto una dichiarazione sulla salute materna e del neonato, impegnandosi ad intensificare il sostegno ai Paesi per raggiungere gli OSM 4 e 5, ridurre la mortalità infantile e migliorare la salute materna. Queste organizzazioni si soffermano sul concetto di “salute riproduttiva”: uno dei tipici concetti contraddittori e ambigui elaborati alle Conferenze del Cairo del 1994 e Pechino del 1995, che si basa sulla definizione di salute data dall’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità, in cui la salute è intesa come “stato di benessere fisico, psicologico e sociale”, rimarcando che essa non consiste soltanto nell’assenza di malattie. Tale definizione, utopistica ed edonistica, è stata criticata dalla comunità internazionale, e tuttavia, durante le assemblee delle Nazioni Unite al Cairo e a Pechino è stata applicata alla salute materna, detta impropriamente riproduttiva invece che procreativa. I documenti sulla “salute riproduttiva” dell’OMS, dell’UNFPA, dell’UNICEF e della Banca Mondiale diffondono le direttive elaborate al Cairo sulla “salute riproduttiva” e l’aborto è incluso in questo ambiguo concetto di “salute riproduttiva”. ---------- In the year 2008 the leaders of the World convened in New York to ascertain the achievement of the goals established in the United Nations Millennium Declaration on 8 September 2000. The 5th UN Millennium Objective is dedicated to the improvement of maternal and children health. The World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Bank have signed a joint statement on maternal and newborn health in which they are committed to intensify their support to countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, To improve maternal health and To reduce child mortality. These organizations dwell upon the concept of “reproductive health”: one of the typical contradictory and ambiguous concepts elaborated at the UN Conferences in Cairo in 1994 and Beijing in 1995 that is based on the definition of health given by the World Health Organization, in which health is understood as “state of physical, psychological and social well being”, and hence not only in the absence of diseases. This definition, utopian and hedonistic, was criticized by the international community, and yet, despite that, during the UN assemblies in Cairo and Beijing it was applied to maternal health, improperly termed reproductive instead of procreative health. The documents on “reproductive health” of the WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, World Bank diffuse the directives drafted in Cairo on “reproductive health”, and abortion is included in this ambiguous concept of “reproductive health”.


1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-457 ◽  

At the request of the Director-General (Chisholm) of the World Health Organization, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (Lie) transmitted on March 20, 1952 to the People's Republic of China and the People's Democratic Republic of North Korea WHO's offer of assistance in controlling reported epidemics in north Korea. Two further telegrams were sent on March 27 and April 3 but no acknowledgment or reply had been received.


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