Giuseppe
Emeritus
WHO - 63rd World Health Assembly: daily notes on proceedings (May 17 2010, edited)
[Source: World Health Organization, <cite cite="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/2010/wha63/journal/en/index.html">WHO | 63rd World Health Assembly: daily notes on proceedings</cite>. Edited.]
63rd World Health Assembly: daily notes on proceedings
How the World Health Asembly works
WHO was established 62 years ago to promote health and ease the burden of disease worldwide. The Organization takes direction for its goals and priorities from the 193 Member States it is designed to serve. Each year, senior health officials from all these Member States come to Geneva to participate in the World Health Assembly. It is at the Health Assembly that WHO's work is reviewed, new goals are set, and new tasks assigned.
The 63rd World Health Assembly this year has a long and complex list of health challenges and responses to review. In this section, we will bring daily notes on the major public health issues that are being debated during this year's session.
The process at the annual World Health Assembly
At the Health Assembly two main types of meeting are held, each with a different purpose:
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[Source: World Health Organization, <cite cite="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/2010/wha63/journal/en/index.html">WHO | 63rd World Health Assembly: daily notes on proceedings</cite>. Edited.]
63rd World Health Assembly: daily notes on proceedings
How the World Health Asembly works
WHO was established 62 years ago to promote health and ease the burden of disease worldwide. The Organization takes direction for its goals and priorities from the 193 Member States it is designed to serve. Each year, senior health officials from all these Member States come to Geneva to participate in the World Health Assembly. It is at the Health Assembly that WHO's work is reviewed, new goals are set, and new tasks assigned.
The 63rd World Health Assembly this year has a long and complex list of health challenges and responses to review. In this section, we will bring daily notes on the major public health issues that are being debated during this year's session.
The process at the annual World Health Assembly
At the Health Assembly two main types of meeting are held, each with a different purpose:
- Committees meet to debate technical and health matters (Committee A), and financial and management issues (Committee B), and approve the texts of resolutions, which are then submitted to the plenary meeting.
- Plenary is the meeting of all delegates to the World Health Assembly. The Health Assembly meets in plenary several times in order to listen to reports and adopt the resolutions transmitted by the committees. The Director-General and Member States also address the delegates at the plenary.
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