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World Health Organization

"World Health Organization" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A specialized agency of the United Nations designed as a coordinating authority on international health work; its aim is to promote the attainment of the highest possible level of health by all peoples.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "World Health Organization" by people in this website by year, and whether "World Health Organization" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 7 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 1998 and 2001 and 2003 and 2008 and 2013 and 2019 and 2020
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