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World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO is responsible under the International Classification of Diseases for assigning names to new diseases & infrequently existing diseases
Notes:
WHO releases 10 threats to global health in 2019
- air pollution and climate change
- noncommunicable diseases
- threat of a global influenza pandemic
- fragile & vulnerable settings, regions affected by drought & conflict
- antimicrobial resistance
- Ebola & high-threat pathogens
- Dengue
- HIV1
- weak primary care
- vaccine hesitancy
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus elected Director-General May 2017 [1]
References
- World Health Organization (WHO)
World Health Assembly elects Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
as new WHO Director-General.
WHO News Release. May 23, 2017
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2017/director-general-elect/en/
- http://www.who.int/en/
- http://www.iarc.fr/