WHO needs a global emergency service?

• Autores: Debora MacKenzie
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3128, 2017, pág. 25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • MacKenzie opines that the World Health Organization wasn't designed for handling emergencies, but to provide nations with technical health advice. It's a global agency, but until recently most disease outbreaks weren't global threats. Now that they are, the agency is rushing to reinvent itself as the global disease response service the world increasingly needs. But that requires predictable, multi-year financing. Without that certainty, it's hard to plan, and to recruit staff with emergency management experience