International Agencies in Child Health Care
1. UNICEF
2. UNESCO
3. WHO
1. UNICEF
UNICEF stands for United nations international children's emergency fund.
UNICEF was formed by united nations general assembly in 1946.
The headquarter of UNICEF is Newyork.
Objectives of UNICEF
1. It provides long term humanitarian (to promote human welfare) servicesvrelated to growth and development of both mother and children in developing countries.
2. It also emphasized the community level sources such as child nutrition, immunization, drinking water and sanitation.
3. UNICEF also aims that providing the basic education for both boys and girls also it protect children from various violence exploitation.
Strategies of UNICEF
1. Provision for low cost protein rich diet to the child.
2. Production and distribution of vaccines and various other form of immunization.
3. It also focused on providing the anti-retro viral therapy to the HIV mother and children.
4. It also promoted the gender equality and basic education for both boys and girls.
GOBI Campaign
G- Growth charts to monitor child's development
O- Oral rehydration
B- Breast feeding
I- Immunization
In recent and modern strategies for UNICEF, the following came into action that GOBI-FFF.
F- Female education
F- Family planning
F- Food supplement
2. UNESCO
UNESCO stands for United nations educational scientific and cultural organization.
It is the specialized organization of United nations.
UNESCO constitute 195 members.
Objectives of UNESCO
1. UNESCO aims to contribute in promoting peace in the country.
2. It has worked in collaboration with many nations to promote education to scientific technologies based on the science.
a. Promote culture and communications
b. Work for maintaining the universal respect for every individual.
c. Work in maintaining various teaching activities and also aims to promote research and training in the field of education.
3. UNESCO has also promoted Asp net which stands for associated schools project network.
4. Asp.net is a global network which covers over 6000 educational institutions.
5. These institution target the projects in the favour of peace and non violence.
6. They have work for promoting education and technology for the individual of rural and urban population.
7. It's main objective was to educate the public about recent technologies that can be used in the research education that can be included under governmental funding.
3. WHO (World Health Organization)
WHO specialized health agency.
Headquarter; Geneva
Objectives of WHO
The main Objectives of WHO is to attain a highest level of possible health irrespective of caste, colour, race, gender.
It also aim to promote general health of the people by preventing from various types of diseases.
Strategies for WHO
1. It aims towards following the recent guidelines for education, training.
2. Control of various communicable and non communicable diseases.
3. Maintaining recent health statistics
4. Control of drug and chemical abuse.
5. Strengthening medical and non medical education.
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