World Health Organization as a means to reduce traffic-related injuries. The WHO has also worked on global initiatives in surgery, including emergency and essential surgical care, trauma care, and safe surgery. The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist is in current use worldwide in the effort to improve patient safety. The World Health Organization's primary objective in natural and man-made emergencies is to coordinate with member states and other stakeholders to "reduce avoidable loss of life and the burden of disease and disability." On 5 May 2014, WHO announced that the spread of polio was a world health emergency – outbreaks of the disease in
Alzheimer Disease International the longest-running international conference on dementia. September marks World Alzheimer's Month, with World Alzheimer's Day on September 21. ADI works globally to focus attention on the dementia epidemic and campaign for policy change from governments and the World Health Organization. ADI estimates 135 million people worldwide will be living with dementia by 2050. The president of ADI is the Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, daughter of the actress Rita Hayworth, diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1981. ADI is based in London, UK. Alzheimer Disease International Alzheimer Disease International (ADI), was founded in 1984 to help to fight Alzheimer's disease, first diagnosed back