THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH PROTECTION

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the context in which the World Health Organization (WHO) was inserted in the protection of health at the international level, the historical events that involved its creation, as well as to expose certain questions arising from its performance as a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN). It also sought to analyze the challenges that the WHO faces in relation to other entities that take care of the global health area. To this end, the present research was divided into two chapters. The first concerns the historical context in which the World Health Organization emerged as one of the extensions of the United Nations (UN). In turn, the second chapter covers the role played by the WHO in health-related issues at the international level. To achieve the objectives proposed here, we opted for a literature review and bibliographic and documentary research techniques, thus collecting, reading, and selecting scientific articles, books and other documents considered essential to the understanding of the theme.