Organización Mundial de la Salud

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/organizacin-mundial-de-la-salud

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the establishment date?April 7, 1948, by the International Health Conference in New York
2. What is the headquarters?Geneva, Switzerland
3. What is the World Health Organization and when was it created?The WHO is a group that works with all countries to keep people healthy. It was started in 1948.
4. How does the WHO help people stay healthy around the world?It gives advice, sets rules for medicines and vaccines, watches for new illnesses, and helps build strong health systems.

Universal Health Coverage (UHC): Ensuring all people have access to the health services they need, when and where they need them, without suffering financial hardship.
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs): Chronic diseases that are not passed from person to person, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and respiratory diseases.
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): The ability of microbes (like bacteria, viruses, fungi) to resist the drugs designed to kill them, making infections harder to treat.