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World Health Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The eighteenth session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board was held in Geneva from May 28 to 30, 1956. The session was devoted largely to administrative matters. The Board chose for technical discussion at the tenth and eleventh WHO Assemblies, respectively, the subjects, “The Role of the Hospital in the Public-Health Program” and “Health Education of the Public”. The Board noted the reports of the expert committee on maternal and child health, the committee on malaria eradication, and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)/WHO joint committee on health policy.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: II. Specialized Agencies
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1957

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References

1 World Health Organization, Official Records … No. 73Google Scholar; for information on the seventeenth sessioń of the Executive Board, see International Organization, X, p. 321.

2 Ibid., No. 76, Part I.

3 Chronicle of the World Health Organization, X, p. 266.

4 Ibid., p. 266.

5 Ibid., p. 375.

7 Ibid., p. 264.

8 Ibid., p. 265.

9 Ibid., p. 264, 377.

10 Ibid., p. 263.

11 Ibid., XI, p. 16.

12 Ibid., X. p. 421.

13 Ibid., p. 263.