USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

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What did the ‘Health Committee’ of the League do?

(A) ** tried to improve the health of the people of the world

(B) Tried to free all slaves

(C) settled small disputes

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The League also did important work improving working conditions through the International Labour Organization. The League’s Health Committee brought together leading experts from many countries to help develop approaches to combat deadly diseases like smallpox and malaria.

Concept note-2: -How did the League of Nations try to help improve health? The League set up the Health Committee to improve the health of people by dealing with the spread of diseases, and sending doctors to help refugees.

Concept note-3: -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-4: -WHO works worldwide to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable. Our goal is to ensure that a billion more people have universal health coverage, to protect a billion more people from health emergencies, and provide a further billion people with better health and well-being.