PHC4101 Module 6 Quiz (All Answered)

What was the "model" during the 1940s and 50s? correct answers intergovernmental, reconstruction What was the "focus" during the 1940s and 50s? correct answers peace; economic and political stability What was the "theme" during the 1940s and 50s? correct answers international cooperation What were the "agents" during the 1940s and 50s? correct answers American and European governments What were the "events" during the 1940s and 50s? correct answers Bretton Woods, United Nations, world Health Organization What was discussed at the UN general assembly in 1946? correct answers "To call for an international conference to consider the scope of, and the appropriate machinery for, international action in the field of public health and proposals for the establishment of a single international health organization of the United Nations" What happened in NY, April 7, 1948? correct answers since then, WORLD HEALTH DAY When was WHO founded? correct answers 1948, established as a specialized agency of the UN What was WHO the unification of? correct answers international agencies concerned with hygiene, public health, and health emergencies - Office of International Public Hygiene (located in Paris) - League of Nations Health Organization (located in Geneva) - United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA, in NY) What is the League of Nations Health? correct answers - established 1926 in Geneva, Switzerland - gather information on epidemic outbreaks - pioneered in the collection, standardization, and dissemination of vital and health statistics - 1926 launched the Weekly Epidemiological Record - established branch in Singapore, and held conferences in South Africa What two private/voluntary orgs worked together to control typhus after the second world war? correct answers 1. Rockefeller Foundation (funds several League of National Health Office activities)