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The World Health Organisation Founded in 1948, the World Health Organization leads the world alliance for health for all. A specialized agency of the United Nations with 191 Member Sates, WHO promotes technical cooperation for health among nations, carries out programmes to control and eradicate disease, and strives to improve the quality of human life. WHO has four main functions: * to give worldwide guidance in the field of health * to set global standards for health * to cooperate with governments in strengthening national health programmes * to develop and transfer appropriate health technology, information and standards The WHO definition of health: 'Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.' A major event in WHO's first fifty years was the global eradication of smallpox. This disease scarred and killed millions before being officially declared eradicated in 1980. Eradication resulted in a huge reduction in...

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