The World Health Organization, the United Nations health agency, uses a system of six phases to warn of possible influenza pandemics.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Their ideas include permitting Americans to shop for health insurance in other states and expanding health care savings accounts.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos says the government does not have enough health care workers for all the victims.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

The World Health Organization is warning the public not to use potassium iodide unless health officials advise them to.

VOA: special.2011.03.30

The hope is that health ministries will together develop policies on collecting and storing electronic health information about individuals.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Its "Health Letter" publication of November, two thousand seven provided more evidence that herbs and spices can aid health.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

And Rwanda is actually at the leading edge of developing nations in tapping these technologies to advance health and health care."

VOA: special.2010.05.03

In May,the World Health Assembly approved a global code of practice on the international recruitment of health workers.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

To others,they are enemies of the public health in a time of what the World Health Organization calls a "global obesity epidemic."

VOA: special.2010.04.12

This effort led to the creation of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

So for me personally, I'm in the health care business and in America we're having this very important debate about health care.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Shekhar Saxena is director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at the World Health Organization.

VOA: special.2011.02.16

Republicans say the idea for a new public health plan to cover millions of the uninsured would hurt the private health care market.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

The W.H.O.says most poor countries spend less than one percent of their health budgets on mental health.

VOA: special.2010.04.13