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Asia’s Role in Governing Global Health
Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
In an era of rapid and extensive globalisation, the world faces a wide range of transboundary problems that require effective collective action. Key among these are threats to human health that do not recognise national borders, and include emerging and re-emerging infections, rising rates of...
Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
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The World Health Organization (WHO)
Series: Global Institutions
The World Health Organization (WHO), as the United Nations specialized agency for health, has been at the centre of international health cooperation for over sixty years. With origins dating from the nineteenth century, WHO’s mandate is the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of...
Published August 20th 2008 by Routledge