MEDICAL WORLD

noreply@blogger.com (MEDICAL TREATMENT) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:46:00 +0000

The Role of the World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) is based in Geneva, Switzerland with satellite offices around the world. Established in 1948 as a United Nations agency for health, WHO's constitutional objective is to ensure that "all people attain the highest possible level of health". As set out in the WHO's constitution, health is defined as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease".

The governing body of the WHO is the World Health Assembly that is made up of representatives from the 191 nations who are members of the United Nations. The World Health Assembly sets the WHO's budget as well as directing and deciding major health policy questions. To learn more about the World Health Organization, please visit their website at http://www.who.int/en/

For every one of the UN member nations, a major issue is providing health care to its citizens. Whether rich or poor, every country deals with problems such as: Which medicines and vaccines should be made available to the citizens of our country? Who should pay for those medicines, the government or individuals? How will these drugs be distributed within our country? How should the government provide for those people who are too poor to pay for medical care?

The answers to these questions are most difficult for countries that are the poorest. With few resources, people living in developing countries face multiple problems including lack of food, clean water, sanitation, and roads which compounds the lack of money needed to buy living saving medicine. Millions of people die each year because they did not have a few cents to buy the life saving medicine that their governments are too poor to provide to them for free.

MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

noreply@blogger.com (MEDICAL TREATMENT) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:42:00 +0000

Medical physics is an exciting evolving new area that is developing all over the world. Here you will find the medical physics realated events that are happening worldwide.

The World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering - the triennial scientific meeting of the IUPESM- being held in Munich, Germany, on September 7 – 12, 2009 is the world’s leading forum for presenting the results of current scientific work as well as major innovations in health-related technologies to an international audience. We expect more than 4,000 visitors to attend the event. Held every three years, the congress provides an ideal inter- and multidisciplinary platform that brings together people from basic research, R&D, industry and medical applications, incorporating key aspects such as information and communication technologies, micro- and nano-systems, optics, tissue engineering and biotechnology. The World Congress 2009 is dedicated to supporting and promoting an intense inter- and multidisciplinary knowledge exchange among professionals in the areas that will be the major driving force for future innovations in medical technologies and medicine.