USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

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After the League failed, what did the Health Organisation become?

(A) Greenpeace.

(B) Médecins sans frontières(Doctors without Borders)

(C) ** The World Health Organisation (WHO).

(D) The World DHB.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Against this background, the first World Health Assembly met in Geneva in June 1948 and formally created the World Health Organization. The Office Internationale d’Hygiène Publique, the League of Nations Health Organization, and UNRRA merged into the new agency.

Concept note-2: -The League of Nations Health Organisation, a technical body created in 1920 to address international health issues, was an unlikely setting for a revolutionary experiment in international relations.

Concept note-3: -Immediately after World War II, in 1945, the UN Conference on International Organisations in San Francisco voted to establish a new international health organisation and a year later the International Health Conference in New York approved the Constitution of the World Health Organisation.

Concept note-4: -The WHO has played a leading role in several public health achievements, most notably the eradication of smallpox, the near-eradication of polio, and the development of an Ebola vaccine.

Concept note-5: -Founded in 1948, WHO is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners and people to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable – so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health.