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World Health Assembly Meet and Resolution on Digital Health
June 2 , 2018
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- The 71st World Health Assembly held in Geneva, Switzerland
- It has adopted a resolution on Digital Health.
- The resolution was initiated by India and was co-sponsored by 20 countries.
- Digital health technology has a huge potential for supporting Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and improving accessibility, quality, and affordability of health services
- It includes using modern advanced technologies such as deep machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT) and other emerging disciplines like genomics.
- World Health Assembly was established on 7 April 1948, it succeeded the Health Organization, which was an agency of the League of Nations.
- It is a member of UN Development Group (UNDP).
- It is headquartered at Geneva.
- The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the forum through which the World Health Organization (WHO) is governed by its 194-member states. WHO flag features the Rod of Asclepius as a symbol for healing.
- It is the world's highest health policy setting body and is composed of health ministers from member states.
- The members of the World Health Assembly generally meet every year in May in Geneva, the location of WHO Headquarters.
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