Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
Designed as a collective instrument to raise the standards of health and well-being of all peoples throughout the world, a new World Health Organization was launched, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council, by the International Health Conference, which met at Hunter College, June 19 to July 22, 1946.
1 Document E/2. For the complete text of the World Health Organization Constitution, see Documents Section, this issue, p. 225.
2 Document E/9/Rev. 1. For preliminary discussion see Journal of the Economic and Social Council, No. 5. Hereinafter referred to as ECOSOC Journal.
3 For a summary record of Meetings of the Committee see E/H/9; for the Official Report see ECOSOC Journal, No. 13.
4 ECOSOC Journal, No. 6, p. 60.
5 ECOSOC Journal, No. 13, p. 146–147.
6 ECOSOC Journal, No. 5, p. 61.
7 Document E/H/INF/9, June 17, 1946.
8 United Nations Weekly Bulletin, I, No. 1, p. 5 (August 3, 1946).
9 Document E/H/13, p. 3.
10 Document E/H/18. Members include: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, India, Liberia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia. Dr. Fedor Krotkov (USSR) was elected Chairman. Document E/100.
11 For text of the Constitution, see this issue, p. 225.
12 Articles 79 and 80 of the Constitution.
13 Document E/130/Rev. 1, October 7, 1946.