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World Health Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The 23d session of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) was held in Geneva from January 20 to February 3, 1959. The Director-General's proposed program of activities and budget estimates for 1960 were examined by the Board, and their adoption was recommended to the Twelfth World Health Assembly. The budget showed an increase of $1,251,960 or 8.25 percent over the revised budget for 1959, for a total estimate of $16,418,700; the proposed program reflected a new trend in the work of WHO, namely, the widening of the concept of control to that of eradication in the case of such communicable diseases as malaria, smallpox, and yaws, and eventually tuberculosis and leprosy. In addition, certain activities were to be expanded, including vital and health statistics services, nutrition surveys, the control of bilharziasis, research, and the teaching of psychiatry and mental health techniques.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: II. Specialized Agencies
Information
International Organization , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , Summer 1959 , pp. 471 - 473
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1959

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References

1 WHO Chronicle, 03 1959 (Vol. 13, No. 3), p. 128–131Google Scholar. For a summary of the 22d session, see International Organization, Winter 1959 (Vol. 13, No. 1), p. 160–161Google Scholar.

2 See below, p. 473.

3 Chronicle of the World Health Organization, 12 1958 (Vol. 12, No. 12), p. 395–397Google Scholar.

4 WHO Chronicle, 01 1959 (Vol. 13, No. 1), p. 3–55Google Scholar.

5 Ibid., February 1939 (Vol. 13, No. 2), p. 77–79.

6 Ibid., March 1959 (Vol. 13, No. 3), p. 131.

7 Ibid., p. 133.