Role Of International Agencies WHO

Question 1

What do they provide?

Answer 1

Healthcare for poor and remote communities with little infrastructure and minimal resources

Question 2

What can they do that governments cant?

Answer 2

Go places and undertake missions in areas governments cant

Question 3

Some advantages of NGO’s?(3)

Answer 3

More cost efficient than governments
Ability to innovate and adapt
Long term commitment

Question 4

Disadvantages of NGO’s?(3)

Answer 4

Limited financial expertise
Small scale
Lack of broader understanding

Question 5

What NGO was set up in 2000?

Answer 5

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Question 6

What do Bill and Melinda Gates do?

Answer 6

Use money they have earned to fund projects that enhance global levels of healthcare and reduce poverty

Question 7

What’s were WHO’s initial priorities?

Answer 7

• malaria
• women’s health
• TB
• nutrition
• sanitation

Question 8

What did WHO launch it 1988?

Answer 8

Global Polio Eradication - by 2006 number of cases reduced by 99%

Question 9

How are church mission hospitals more efficient than government health facilities?

Answer 9

They treat 5 times more patients