World Health Organization : The mandate of a specialized agency of the United Nations

Traditional Medicine and Complementary/Alternative Medicine

World Health Organization
The mandate of a specialized agency of the United Nations

Elisabetta Minelli
International Relations Office - WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine, State University of Milan (Italy)
Dissertation for the Political Science Degree specializing in International Relations at the Catholic University of Milan

PART I: The institution

Chapter 1 : Origin and development of international cooperation for health: steps towards the constitution of the World Health Organization

1.1. International Sanitary Conferences

1.2. Office International d’Hygiene Publique

1.3. Health Organization of the League of Nations

1.4. The Technical Preparatory Committee and the International Health Conference of 1946

1.5. The World Health Organization

Chapter 2 : Structure: World Health Assembly, Executive Board and Secretariat

2.1. World Health Assembly (WHA)

2.2. Executive Board (EB)

2.3. Secretariat

Chapter 3 : Organisational levels: headquarters, Regional Organizations, Country Offices

3.1. Headquarters

3.2. Regional Offices

3.3. Country Offices

Chapter 4 : WHO’s functions and their categorisation

4.1. Attempts of categorisation

4.2. The comparative advantage

4.3. A particularity: the normative activity

PART II: What is WHO's mandate?

Chapter 1 : Nature of the WHO: a specialised agency of the United Nations

1.1. Definition and characteristics of UN specialised agencies

1.2. Implications for the WHO: relations between the WHO and the UN

Chapter 2 : WHO on the track of United Nations' goals: the Millennium Development Goals

2.1. A new millennium for the United Nations

2.2. The Millennium Development Goals

2.3. WHO's role in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals

Chapter 3 : An autonomous specialised agency: a broad mandate for the WHO

3.1. The Constitution

3.2. The corporate strategy

3.3. The budget

PART III: A variety of activities

Chapter 1 : The Stop TB Initiative

1.1. Background and issues

1.2. The action taken by WHO

1.3. Stop TB and WHO's mandate

Chapter 2 : WHO Process for a Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health

2.1. Background and issues

2.2. The action taken by WHO

2.3. Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health and WHO's mandate

Chapter 3 : Traditional Medicine

3.1. Background and issues

3.2. The action taken by WHO

3.3. Traditional Medicine and WHO's mandate

PART IV: The election of the new Director-General: what is the future of the WHO?

Chapter 1 : The election of the New Director-General

1.1. Election procedure

1.2. The candidates

1.3. And the winner is…

Chapter 2 : What is the future of the WHO?

2.1. What is Dr Brundtland's legacy? Positive and negative aspects of her work

2.2. What is the new Director-General supposed to do? Issues and challenges

CONCLUSIONS

ANNEXES

Constitution of the World Health Organization

WHO structure

Chronology

Executive board room

A corporate strategy for the WHO secretariat

General programme of work, 2002-2005

WHO scale of assessments for the financial period 2002-2003

APPENDIXES

Dr Jong Wook Lee's term

WHO and Lombardy Region Cooperation Plan

REFERENCES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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