PRELIMS BOOSTER 2018
Bengal Florican and World Health Organization
Bengal Florican
- Critically Endangered – IUCN
- CITES Appendix I.
- rare bustard species that is very well known for its mating dance
- Habitat
- Grasslands occasionally interspersed with scrublands
- Range — Cambodia, India and Nepal
- India — Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh
- Threats:
- extensive loss and modification of grasslands through drainage, conversion to agriculture and plantations, overgrazing, inappropriate cutting, burning and ploughing regimes
- heavy flooding
- invasion of alien species
- scrub expansion
- dam construction
- Protected areas
- Dibru-Saikhowa national park
- Kaziranga National Parks
- Dudhwa Tiger Reserve
- Chitwan National Park, — Nepal
World Health Organization
- established on 7 April 1948
- headquarter — Geneva, Switzerland
- specialized agency of the United Nations
- WHO is a member of the United Nations Development Group
- It is concerned with international public health.
- Predecessor
- International Sanitary Conferences — A series of 14 conferences that lasted from 1851 to 1938. The International Sanitary Conferences worked to combat many diseases, chief among them cholera, yellow fever, and the bubonic plague
- Health Organization — agency of the League of Nations
- Reports
- World Health Report, the worldwide World Health Survey
- Global Urban Air Pollution database
- Governance
- world Health Assembly — Geneva
- legislative and supreme body of WHO
- appoints the Director-General every five years
- votes on matters of policy and finance of WHO, including the proposed budget
- reviews reports of the Executive Board
- Executive body
- 34 members, technically qualified in the field of health elected by the world health assembly for three-year terms
- carry out the decisions and policies of the Assembly, to advise it and to facilitate its work
- International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
- health care classification system to provide a system of diagnostic codes for classifying diseases, including nuanced classifications of wide variety of signs, symptoms, complaints, abnormal findings, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or disease
- Its current priorities include
- communicable diseases, in particular HIV/AIDS, Ebola, malaria and tuberculosis
- the mitigation of the effects of non-communicable diseases
- sexual and reproductive health, development, and ageing
- nutrition, food security and healthy eating
- occupational health;
- ubstance abuse
- driving the development of reporting, publications, and networking
