ORGANIZATIONS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO COMMUNITY HEALTH (prt. 1) Flashcards
Types of Community Health Organizations (CHO)
Basis
→ Source of funding and organizational structure
Three Classifications of Community Health Organizations
Governmental CHO
Quasi-governmental
Non-governmental
– source of fund: taxes of people; there is tax when buying in the market and tax will be given to the government who will distribute it to different sectors (ex: health sector funded by the government)
Governmental CHO
For this type of CHO, it could be both governmental and non-governmental
Quasi-governmental
– source of fund: in-kind donations; This is voluntarily donated by people.
Non-governmental
FOUR 4 GOVERNMENTAL LEVELS:
International
National
Regional (state)
Local
● Purpose: To assist the people of member nations attain the best level of health possible
● tells some protocols and preventive measures for containing a particular outbreak or disease so this agency promotes the better quality of life of its members
INTERNATIONAL Health Agencies
- Primary international health agency in the world
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Health Organization (WHO)
Founded in________, headquarters in_______
April 7, 1948
Geneva, Switzerland
WHO six regional offices around the world.
• Africa (AFRO), Brazzaville, Congo;
• Americas (PAHO), Washington, D.C., United States;
• Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO), Cairo, Egypt;
• Europe (EURO), Copenhagen, Denmark;
• Southeast Asia (SEARO), New Delhi, India;
• Western Pacific (WPRO), Manila, Philippines.
absorbed by the WHO
International D’Hygiène Publique (1907);
dissolved when the WHO was created
Health Organization of the League of Nations (1919);
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (1943); dissolved in 1946-its work is carried out today by the Office of the -
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (1950)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
(1946); formerly known as the
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
still an independent organization but is integrated with WHO in a regional office
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
(1902);
is commemorated each year as World Health Day.
April 7
sixtieth anniversary of the WHO was celebrated in
2008
WHO: At the beginning of 2016,____ countries were members.
194
comprises the delegates of the member nations.
This assembly, which meets in general sessions annually and in special sessions when necessary, has the primary tasks of approving the WHO program and the budget for the following biennium and deciding major policy questions.
World Health Assembly
primary objective of the______ “shall be the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.”
WHO
Purpose: To assist the people of member nations attain the best level of health possible
tells some protocols and preventive measures for containing a particular outbreak or disease so this agency promotes the better quality of life of its members
WHO
WHO has led the efforts to contain the outbreaks of_____.
Since July 2014 unparalleled progress has been made in establishing systems and tools that allow for rapid and effective response.
Ebola
there are now___ rapid diagnostic tools that can detect the Ebola virus in a matter of hours
___worldwide testing laboratories, an Ebola vaccine
registered foreign medical teams
and thousands of trained responders who can rapidly deploy to outbreaks.
six
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Was adopted at the Millennium Summit in 2003
The declaration set out principles and values in seven areas
United Nations Millennium Declaration