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Outpatient surgery, also known as ambulatory surgery, day surgery, [1] day case surgery, or same-day surgery, is surgery that does not require an overnight hospital stay. [note 1] The term “outpatient” arises from the fact that surgery patients may enter and leave the facility on the same day. The advantages of outpatient surgery over ...
The Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care was established by the World Health Organization in December 2005. Its general purpose is to reduce "death and disability from road traffic accidents, trauma, burns, falls, pregnancy related complications, domestic violence, disasters and other emergency surgical conditions" by improving collaborations between relevant ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for global public health. [2] It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has six regional offices [3] and 150 field offices worldwide. Only sovereign states can participate, and it is the largest intergovernmental health organization at the ...
Organization: The World Health Organization is established in April 1948 as a part of the United Nations that specializes in international public health. The WHO constitution is signed by a total of 61 countries on July 22 of 1946, and holds a meeting of the World Health Assembly on July 24 of 1948.
World Health Organization, Copenhagen 2006; Groene O, Alonso J, Klazinga N. Development and validation of the WHO self-assessment tool for health promotion in hospitals: results of a study in 38 hospitals in eight countries. Health Promotion International 2010: 25 (2), 221-229; Dietscher C, Pelikan JM, Schmied H. (2014): Health Promoting Hospitals.
World Health Organization (11 C, 174 P) Pages in category "International medical and health organizations" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 295 total.
Formerly known as the Doctors Orchestra of Houston, the Texas Medical Center Orchestra was established in November 2000 and is one of the few orchestras in the world that originated from health professions. Members of the orchestra include physicians, dentists, nurses, medical students, biomedical scientists, social workers and other health ...
The World Health Report (WHR) is a series of annual reports produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). First published in 1995, the World Health Report is WHO's leading publication. [ 1 ] The reports were published every year from 1995 to 2008, and again in 2010 and 2013.