The World Health Organization: Achievements and Failures

ISBN-13: 9781472480859 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 200 str.

Yves Beigbeder

Opis

The World Health Organization (WHO) is undergoing a crisis of credibility and challenge. Having been subjected to a severe financial crisis and criticisms of its management of pandemics such as the H1N1 flu case and the outbreak of Ebola, with a new Director-General at its helm, it is an ideal time to review the WHO's past and current achievements including on-going operations and reported failures. Whilst time is given to recurrent attacks on WHO performance, it is balanced by also highlighting the WHO's leadership, its member states, and its influence on other actors, NGOs and business. As such, this study reviews the WHO's actions in the most visible programmes such as SARS, H1N1, Ebola and also smallpox, malaria, onchocerciasis, polio and AIDS. The author also discusses the desirable balance between operational and normative functions and proposals for reform of the Organization.

Recenzje

Yves Beigbeder’s splendid scholarship comes at a pivotal moment for WHO—after its widely criticized response to Ebola. Will the Organization become the global health leader it was meant to be? Or will member states starve it of funding, as its capabilities wither? Yves Beigbeder’s important ¿book illuminates these vital questions¿, urging, rightfully, for a reenergized WHO to fight global health crises arising today and into the future. – Lawrence O’Gostin, Professor, Georgetown University and Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National & Global Health Law.

Spis treści

Foreword. Preface. Part I Who’s Mandate, Governance and Programmes. Chapter 1 Mandate, Structure and Functions. Chapter 2 Strategy and Programmes. Part II Global Outbreaks and Pandemics. Chapter 3 The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and The Avian Influenza. Chapter 4 The H1n1 Flu Pandemic Crisis and The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. Chapter 5 The Fight Against Ebola. Chapter 6 Fighting Zika. Part III Communicable Diseases: Control or Eradication? Chapter 7 Fighting Malaria. Chapter 8 The Eradication of Smallpox. Chapter 9 The Onchocerciasis Control Programmes. Chapter 10 The Eradication of Polio. Chapter 11 The Global Fight Against Aids. Chapter 12 Fighting Tuberculosis. Part IV Fighting Non-Communicable Diseases. Chapter 13 Access to Essential Medicines. Chapter 14 Nutrition issues. Chapter 15 Fighting tobacco and alcohol. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index