- Since the World Health Organization (WHO) was founded in 1948, the development of many new institutions in the field challenges its original vision as the 'directing and coordinating body on international health work'.
- WHO evolved from a body principally aimed at the control of infectious diseases to a more holistic approach to the improvement of health characterized in the 1970s by the slogan 'Health for All'.
- The entry of the World Bank as a major health funder in the 1980s and a proponent of market-based health policies challenged WHO's pre-eminent position in the field.
- Under Director-General Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland in the 1990s a serious attempt was made to refocus WHO and raise its status as a player in the development policy arena, but with mixed success and limited sustainability.
- More recently WHO's chronic financial problems, characterized by excessive dependence on voluntary short-term funding by donors, have precipitated another round of reform.
- The question is whether WHO member states and its secretariat are asking sufficiently searching questions about WHO's place in the international system and what might need to be done to put its future on a more secure footing.
18 February 2013
The Role of the World Health Organization in the International System
15 February 2013
Seminar and Webcast - Thu 7th Mar 2013: Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy on the island of Ireland
What
do we know about the gap between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy on
the island of Ireland? Report Launch
The
Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) in association with the Centre for
Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI) will launch a report which
focuses on what we can learn from the data on the island of Ireland about
health expectancies. Attendance is free and the launch will also be available
as a live webcast.
Date:
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7 March
2013
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Time:
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12pm-1pm
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Venue:
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Institute
of Public Health in Ireland, Forestview, Belfast BT8 7ZX
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Chair:
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Professor
Bob Stout
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Programme:
11.45am
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Registration with tea and coffee
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12.00pm
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Introduction
Professor Bob Stout, Co-Chair of CARDI |
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12.05pm
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Policy context with respect to
healthy ageing
Dr Roger O’Sullivan, CARDI |
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12.10pm
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Presentation of results and
findings
Ms Lorraine Fahy, IPH |
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12.30pm
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Discussion
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1.00pm
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End with light lunch.
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Register
your interest in attending this event or participating in the webcast by
Monday 4 March 2013 to either:
Monday 4 March 2013 to either:
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Belfast:
Leah Friend
The Institute of Public Health in Ireland
Telephone: +44 28 9064 8494
Fax: +44 28 9064 6604
Email: leah.friend@publichealth.ie
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