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Since 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched numerous programs aimed at improving health conditions around the globe, ranging from efforts to eradicate smallpox to education programs about the health risks of smoking. In setting global health priorities and carrying out initiatives, the WHO bureaucracy has faced the challenge of reconciling the preferences of a small minority of wealthy nations, who fund the organization, with the demands of poorer member countries, who hold the majority of votes. In The World Health Organization between North and South, Nitsan Chorev shows how the WHO bureaucracy has succeeded not only in avoiding having its agenda co-opted by either coalition of member states but also in reaching a consensus that fit the bureaucracy's own principles and interests. Chorev assesses the response of the WHO bureaucracy to member-state pressure in two particularly contentious moments: when during the 1970's and early 1980's developing countries forcefully called for a more equal international economic order, and when in the 1990's the United States and other wealthy countries demanded international organizations adopt neoliberal economic reforms. In analyzing these two periods, Chorev demonstrates how strategic maneuvering made it possible for a vulnerable bureaucracy to preserve a relatively autonomous agenda, promote a consistent set of values, and protect its interests in the face of challenges from developing and developed countries alike.

Public health --- World health. --- Global health --- International health --- Medical geography --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- World health --- International cooperation. --- International cooperation --- World Health Organization. --- Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie --- World health organization

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According to its Constitution, the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) was nothing less than the 'attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health' without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic status, or social condition. But how consistently and how well has the WHO pursued this mission since 1946? This comprehensive and engaging new history explores these questions by looking at its origins and its institutional antecedents, while also considering its contemporary and future roles. It examines how the WHO was shaped by the particular environments of the postwar period and the Cold War, the relative influence of the US and other approaches to healthcare, and its place alongside sometimes competing international bodies such as UNICEF, the World Bank, and the Gates Foundation. The authors re-evaluate the relative success and failure of critical WHO campaigns, from early malaria and smallpox eradication programs to struggles with Ebola today.

Global Health --- International Agencies --- Health Policy --- Health Services Administration --- Disease Eradication --- International Cooperation --- History, 20th Century --- History, 21st Century --- history --- World Health Organization. --- Global Health. --- History, 20th Century. --- History, 21st Century. --- history. --- World health. --- International agencies --- Medical policy --- Health services administration --- International cooperation --- History. --- World Health Organization --- Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie --- World health organization

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Medicine --- oncology --- gynecology --- urology --- surgery --- health organization --- Medicine. --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Health Workforce

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Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Oncology. Neoplasms --- Cancer --- -Kanker --- Preventieve geneeskunde --- Cancers --- Carcinoma --- Malignancy (Cancer) --- Malignant tumors --- Tumors --- Prevention --- Médecine préventive --- Prevention. --- Kanker --- Primary prevention --- Effectiveness --- NEOPLASMS --- PRIMARY PREVENTION --- LIFE STYLE --- ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE --- WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION --- PREVENTION AND CONTROL --- EPIDEMIOLOGY

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Urban health --- Research. --- Planning. --- #SBIB:316.334.3M50 --- 364.26 --- Organisatie van de gezondheidszorg: algemeen, beleid --- Maatschappeljke problemen met hygiene en gezondheid --- 364.26 Maatschappeljke problemen met hygiene en gezondheid --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Sociology of health --- WHO Healthy Cities Project. --- City health --- Urban public health --- Urbanization --- Public health --- Planning --- Research --- Health aspects --- Healthy Cities Project (World Health Organization) --- World Health Organization. --- Urban health - Research. --- Urban health - Planning.