Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Preface / Alexandre Swoboda and Umberto La Rocea -- List of abbreviations / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- List of Tables / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Introduction / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Chapter I The Historical Origins of WHO / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Chapter II The Birth of WHO its Objectives, the Evolution of its Strategy and Programmes / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Chapter III The Evolution of WHO's Structure / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Chapter IV WHO's Normative Action / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Chapter V Research, Education and Training, and Information / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Chapter VI Technical Cooperation / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Chapter VII WHO's Operational Role: Disease Control or Eradication / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Chapter VIII Budgetary and Financial Questions / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Chapter IX WHO's Coordination and Cooperation with other Organizations / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Chapter X General Conclusion the Organization's Achievements and Future, Challenges, Criticisms and Reform / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Bibliography / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Tables / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy -- Index / Yves Beigbeder , Mahyar Nashat , Marie-Antoinette Orsini , and Jean-François Tiercy.

This work presents the broad lines of the action and evolution of the World Health Organization (WHO). It identifies some of the problems WHO has had to face in the past, and will have to confront in the future. It discusses in detail the historical origins, WHO's objectives and the evolution of its strategy and programmes. It reviews its structures as well as the problems raised by its decentralization. It examines the Organization's action in the field of technical cooperation and looks into several of WHO's more important past and present programmes. In its general conclusion, it attempts to envisage the future of the Organization. The present study is based essentially on the official documentation of the WHO, open and restricted. The strength of this book lies in the personal experience of the main author, a former WHO official, who has orientated the book's research in specific directions and has added some complementary information.

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