How WHO provides global health care relief to the uninsured groups
Introduction
World Health Organisation (WHO) is UN Specialized organization for health. Today, World Health Organisation is one of the largest health agencies in the world. The organisation was established in 1948 with an aim of providing the highest possible level health to all people. According to this organisation, good health defined as a state of complete social, physical, and mental well-being, not only the absence of illness or disease. The organisation has six regional offices and 148 country offices and 9000 staff worldwide. 80% of the organization’s funding comes from governments. WHO has a variety of fundamental functions. Some of these functions include technical advice, monitoring of health trends and structures, standards and norms setting, provision of evidence based statistics and policy. WHO is not an implementing agency (Shimkin, 2006).
How WHO provides global health care relief to the uninsured groups
World Health Organisation offer support in helping increase access to care to all the uninsured groups in the world. The organisation provides structures that must be followed to enhance access to medicines by all people. They also stipulate standards that can be used in providing medicines and other products through disaster relief programs. World Health Organisation has partnered with other International health organizations in supporting community-based programs whose work is to improve health and well-being of people (World Health Organization, 2012).
World Health Organisation beliefs that effective health care is critical in achieving better health in all nations around the world. According to WHO, different countries have different health care systems, and most often, cultural values and local customs play a key role. WHO helps in the balancing how different health systems demands of providing care are met. This includes demand of cost, quality, access, medical advances, and quality (Burci, Luca, and Ignes, 2004).
WHO promise of health care reflects the organisation perspectives on what it takes to offer good health care and sets out their role in advancing care. The organisation has achieved this through its own actions and by working with other health care organisation all over the world. As part of WHO’s promise, the organisation believes that people all over the world are served well when health care systems deliver equal access to quality health care across all social and economic and circumstances (Burci, Luca, and Ignes, 2004).
WHO provides evidence based policy and statics that are used by all health providing organisation. According to these policies, access to health care and prevention in many cases is an aspect of non-medical reasons. The policies advocate for equal provision of quality medical care no matter the race, geographical location, gender, education, or ethnicity of a given community. These factors have I many years affected the quality and type of care people receive as well as the type of medical conditions people get (World Health Organization, 2012).
For over 70 years, WHO has strived to work with others in health care and has steered great success in many countries. The organisation has been able to maintain its objective, which is reducing, health disparities and making a long-term difference in uninsured people’s health. The organization has also provided effective and creative access to quality health care for medically underserved populations. World Health Organisation has for many years helped to support charitable, independent foundations that help patients with specific diseases by paying their insurance premiums or any other bills related with medications ("Constitution of the World Health Organization", 2008).
References
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Burci, G., Luca, V., and Ignes, C.H. (2004). World Health Organization. Kluwer Law International.
World Health Organization. (2012). "Agreements with Other Intergovernmental Organizations" (PDF). Retrieved 12 Oct 2012.
"Constitution of the World Health Organization". (2008). World Health Organization. Retrieved 12 Oct 2012.
