Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year: 2022
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 3

World Health Organization’s responsive policies for the containment of COVID-19 pandemic in the world: An analysis

1Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy Studies, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Kerala, Tejaswini Hills, Periye (Post), Kasaragod (District), Kerala, (State), India

*Corresponding Author E-mail: ramaraophd@gmail.com, ramarao@cukerala.ac.in

Online Published on 15 March, 2023.

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) had been working with its 194 member states across six grouped global regions in the world regarding the health of the people. India is a member country of this organization. The WHO’s Constitution came into force on 7th April 1948. Its headquarters is at Geneva in Switzerland country. The WHO’s World Health Assembly use to determines the policies of this Organization. An Executive Board (EB) members are technically qualified in health and this gives an effect to the decisions and policies of this assembly. The COVID-19 outbreak began at Wuhan city in China country in December 2019. This has became a pandemic because this has been affected and affecting many countries globally, which includes India through the daily confirmed cases and fatalities. The Vaccination against the COVID-19 has started in the countries to eliminate this disease, which includes India. Although, this virus has slightly declining, but still this virus is existing through different mutations of this COVID-19. This article has mentioned the containment of COVID-19 pandemic through the WHO’s responsive guidelines policies for completely eradication of this virus disease to save the people lives in the world. This article has suggested for an effective implementation of WHO’s COVID-19 responsive policies in its member states for accomplishing this purpose.

Keywords

Pandemic, Containment, Policy, Global, Vaccine, Responsive