INTERNATIONAL

HEALTH AGENCIES AND

ROLE OF COMMUMITY
HEALTH NURSE
SPEAKERS: MS.TARANDEEP
MS.MANSI
ADVISOR: MADAM MRS.POONAM
GUPTA
 DEFINITION
HEALTH AGENCY :
IT IS THE GOVERNMENTAL OR NON
GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION WHICH IS
RESPONSIBLE FOR DELIVERING HEALTH SERVICES
AND FOR WHICH WORKERS MAY WORK FOR PAY OR
AS VOLUNTEERS.
INTERNATIONAL

HEALTH

AGENCIES
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION [WHO]

• Non –political, specialized agency of UN

• Headquarters: Geneva
• Presently 187 members
states:Belgium,Cannada,Denmark,Egypt,India,etc.
• It is not the world health service but help government at their
requests and in accordance with policies laid by world health assembly.
 OBJECTIVES
MAIN: “The attainment by all peoples of the highest level of health”
IN THE PREAMBLE OF WHO :
1) Complete state of physical , mental and social well being.
2) No Discrimination in the path of attainment of highest standard of health.
3)Good health is for attainment of peace and security.
4)Good health is valued to all.
5)Equal development in promomtion and control of disease in all the countries.
6)Extension to all the people of the benefits of medical, psychological and related
knowledge.
7)Informed opinion and active co-operation.
 FUNCTIONS OF WHO
1) It directs and coordinates the health rate throughout the
world.
2) To estimate sporadic,endemic and other diseases
3) To promote the prevention of accidental injuries by
improvement of
nutrition,housing,sanitation,recreation,etc.
4) Promote maternal and child health services.
5) To promote and conduct research to improve in standards
of education in health
 WHO CONTRIBUTION TO
INDIA
• control of communuicable diseases.
• Strengthening the public health administration.
• Improving environment sanitation.
• MCH Care,nutrition
• Training provision of all types of professional and
auxillary health workers.
CONTRIBUTION OF
WHO
TOWARDS COVID 19
PANDEMIC
 FUNDING
Funding
Donor
received US$

Australia   1 698 617

Austria 2 205 072
Azerbaijan    5 000 000

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation   10 978 040

Canada      729 903

Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 20 000 000

China 20 100 000
COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund 45 200 000
 CONT…….
Singapore 500 000
Slovakia      220 507
Switzerland 388 538
United Kingdom 22 528 976

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

1 498 155
Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF)

United Nations Office for the Coordination of

   1 795 247
Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)

United States 30 289 300

Vital Strategies/Resolve to Save Lives      749 925
World Bank  32 200 792
 UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN
EMERGENCY FUND [UNICEF]
• Establish in 1946 by UN general assembly to deal with rehabilitation of children in war ravaged
countries.
• presently 105 members countries.

FUNCTIONS OF UNICEF
1) Vitally Important mission in assisting developing economies to meet the
needs of children and youth.
2) Assistance to MCH.
3) Its resources are directed at improving the healthcare of children,their
nutrition,drinking water supply ,early education in short and other
elementary services for human development.
4) Ultimate purpose: The total development of the children as they are the
key to development and future of ,mankind.
 ACTIVITIES OF UNICEF
1) Child health – a) Primary healthcare
b) Immunization
c) Rural water supply and sanitation
d) Child nutrition
2) Formal and non-formal education
3) Village level technology
4) Social welfare services for children
5) Urban services
6) Emergency relief and rehabilitation
 UNICEF IN INDIA
• Andhra Pradesh : Womens development
• Maharashtra : AIDS awareness
• Tamil nadu : Elimination of child labour,etc
 CONTRIBUTION OF UNICEF TOWARDS COVID 19
PANDEMIC
As a key partner in this joined-up effort, UNICEF will lead emergency
efforts to ensure families and communities in the most vulnerable
countries are fully engaged in the response and have access to
water, sanitation and hygiene and other infection prevention and
control measures.
 UNICEF will also ensure children, caretakers, and frontline
responders such as social workers, teachers and healthcare workers
are supported through evidence-based guidance through its vast
community outreach and country programs.
 UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
[UNDP]
• Established in 1965 with the objectives to help poorer nations
develop their own human and natural resources to the fullest
extent
• Executing agency: WHO
 AIMS OF UNDP
• Increased production and processing of food ,timber and other agricultural
commodities
• Expansion and modernization of agencies ,power generation ,transport and
communication
• Improving of basic essential facilities for education,health
care,housing,employment,administrative and social services
• The growth of more suitable trade and other advances towards the goal of
establishing a new internationaleconomic order
• Progress in integrated rural development
 CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS COVID PANDEMIC

• We have been supporting countries since the very early stages of this crisis, donating
more than two million surgical masks and providing life supporting medical equipment
such as X-ray machines, infrared thermometers, infusion pumps, protective suits,
gloves and hand sanitizer. We are supporting health systems in countries including
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Djibouti, El Salvador, Eritrea, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar,
Nigeria, Paraguay, Panama and Ukraine. 
• In China we launched a social media campaign to spread information about COVID-19
amongst vulnerable communities such as the elderly and other disadvantaged people
in 40 different minority languages
• In the Arab states now are working with governments and citizens to deliver essential
services, and fight misinformation.
 WORLD BANK
• Established in 1944,has 187 member countries

Objective:
To help in raising the standard of living in comparatively poor or undeveloped countries.

• WHO and WORLD BANK: jointly carry out many projects like water supply
,world food programme, population control programme and AIDS control
programme,etc.
• Generally concerned with: project involving
energy,transport,railway,industries,agriculture,education,fp,health and
environment.
 CONTRIBUTION OF WORLD BANK
TOWARDS COVID PANDEMIC
• The World Bank Group is deploying up to $160 billion in long-term
financial support over the next 15 months – with an emphasis on
policy-based financing and protecting the poorest households. 
• This includes a $14 billion fast-track package to respond to
immediate COVID-19 health and economic needs.  
• A critical component of the emergency response to this crisis is
engagement with the private sector, so the International Finance
Corporation is playing a key role supporting companies to continue
operating and to sustain jobs
 INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS
• It is a non-political, non-governmental, international humanities voluntary organization
which is dedicated to the service of humanity In both war and peace.
• Member countries: more than 90
• Establishes by swiss businessman in 1859 when he saw the neglect of thousands of
wounded and dying soldiers in the battle of soliferino.

OBJECTIVES
To serve suffering humanity.

ACTIVITIES
Giving aid on humanitarian grounds to the victims of the natural calamities.
•
 CONTRIBUTION OF INTERNATIONAL RED
CROSS TOWARDS COVID 19 PANDEMIC
 GIVING COMFORT AND SUPPORT AFTER HOME FIRES
 PROVIDING REFUGE FROM DISASTERS
 Train People with Lifesaving Skills
 Maintain 40 Percent of the Nation’s Blood Supply
 Aid Communities Worldwide
 FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION

•Specialised agency of UN

PRIMARY AIM
•To increase agriculture production to keep pace with growing population in the world

AIM
1.
To increase efficiency of farming,fisheries,and forestry
2.
To improve the condition of rural people
3.
To ensure that the food is consumed by the people who need it ,In sufficient quantities and in
right proportion to develop and maintain a better state of nutrition throughout the world
4.
To help nations to raise their living standards
 CONTRIBUTION OF
FAO TOWARDS
COVID-19 PANDEMIC
 SAFEGUARDING THE FOOD SECURITY AND LIVELIHOODS OF THE MOST VULNERABLE

•FAO is reorganizing its humanitarian and resilience programming to ensure continued delivery of
assistance where there are already high lev els of need while meeting new needs emerging from
the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19.
•We are ramping up our field program to:
•Provide smallholder farmers and herders with seeds, tools, livestock feed and other agricultural
inputs, along with animal health support, so they can continue to generate income and produce
food for their families and communities;
•In communities where undernutrition and poverty are prevalent, distribute seeds and home
gardening kits, food storage systems, and poultry and other small stock to improve household
nutrition and diversify incomes. Similar activities will be undertaken in camps for refugees and the
displaced;
•Everywhere we work, access to food will be stabilized by supporting people’s purchasing power
through injections of cash (unconditional, or cash-for-work where feasible and appropriate), so that
affected families can meet critical household needs without selling off key assets. We are working
with governments to scale up social protection systems, especially in difficult-to-access rural areas.
UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR POPULATION
ACTIVITY [UNFPA]
Introduced as a trust fund on 11th July 1967,actual began its operation in 1969
UNFPA gives financial aid for extensive improvement in health and family welfare
programmes
This includes plans of national level ,helping in the development of available
health
services in rural areas for developing infrastructure for family welfare
ACTIVITIES
Help in the production of contraceptives
Increasing the availability of health workers
Child health and family welfare programmes
 CONTRIBUTION OF UNFPA TOWARDS COVID-19

 UNFPA is on the ground, distributing personal protective equipment

for health workers and supporting health systems where needed.
 UNFPA is also supporting efforts to learn more about the virus and
its impact to better serve the most vulnerable.