World Health Organization
(缩略词： WHO)
- an agency of the United Nations, established in 1948 to promote health and control communicable diseases. It assists in the efforts of member governments, and pursues biomedical research through some 500 collaborating research centres throughout the world. Its headquarters are in Geneva.世界卫生组织（联合国机构, 建于1948年, 以促进健康和控制疾病传播为宗旨, 辅助成员国政府相关工作, 在全世界约有500个合作研究中心, 进行生物医学研究; 总部设在日内瓦）。