{"id":21069,"date":"2025-01-29T09:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21069"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:30:07","slug":"leaving-the-w-h-o-could-hurt-americans-on-a-range-of-health-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21069","title":{"rendered":"Leaving the W.H.O. Could Hurt Americans on a Range of Health Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump\u2019s decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial scientific data and lessen the country\u2019s influence in setting a global health agenda.<\/p>\n

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President Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization could have harsh consequences for countries around the world that rely on the agency to achieve important health goals, including routine immunizations, outbreak control and nutrition programs.<\/p>\n

But it could also have unfortunate, unintended repercussions for Americans.<\/p>\n

Disengaging from the W.H.O. would rob the United States of crucial information about emerging outbreaks like mpox and resurgent dangers like malaria and measles, public health experts said. It may also give more power to nations like Russia and China in setting a global health agenda, and it could hurt the interests of American pharmaceutical and health technology companies.<\/p>\n

The W.H.O.\u2019s work touches American lives in myriad ways. The agency compiles the International Classification of Diseases, the system of diagnostic codes used by doctors and insurance companies. It assigns generic names to medicines that are recognizable worldwide. Its extensive flu surveillance network helps select the seasonal flu vaccine each year.<\/p>\n

The agency also closely tracks resistance to antibiotics and other drugs, keeps American travelers apprised of health threats, and studies a wide range of issues such as teen mental health, substance use and aging, which may then inform policies in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s a reason why there was a W.H.O.,\u201d said Loyce Pace, who served as an assistant secretary of health and human services under former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. \u201cIt\u2019s because we saw value, even as a superpower, in the wake of the world war to come together as a global community on global problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica, no matter how great we are, cannot do this work alone,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Though it will take a year for the withdrawal to take effect \u2014 and it is not entirely clear that it can happen without congressional approval \u2014 Mr. Trump\u2019s announcement has already prompted drastic cost-cutting measures at the W.H.O.<\/p>\n

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President Trump\u2019s decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial scientific data and lessen the country\u2019s influence in setting a global health agenda.President Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization could have harsh consequences for countries around the world that rely on the agency to achieve important health goals, including routine immunizations, outbreak control and nutrition programs.But it could also have unfortunate, unintended repercussions for Americans.Disengaging from the W.H.O. would rob the United States of crucial information about emerging outbreaks like mpox and resurgent dangers like malaria and measles, public health experts said. It may also give more power to nations like Russia and China in setting a global health agenda, and it could hurt the interests of American pharmaceutical and health technology companies.The W.H.O.\u2019s work touches American lives in myriad ways. The agency compiles the International Classification of Diseases, the system of diagnostic codes used by doctors and insurance companies. It assigns generic names to medicines that are recognizable worldwide. Its extensive flu surveillance network helps select the seasonal flu vaccine each year.The agency also closely tracks resistance to antibiotics and other drugs, keeps American travelers apprised of health threats, and studies a wide range of issues such as teen mental health, substance use and aging, which may then inform policies in the United States.\u201cThere\u2019s a reason why there was a W.H.O.,\u201d said Loyce Pace, who served as an assistant secretary of health and human services under former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. \u201cIt\u2019s because we saw value, even as a superpower, in the wake of the world war to come together as a global community on global problems.\u201d\u201cAmerica, no matter how great we are, cannot do this work alone,\u201d she said.Though it will take a year for the withdrawal to take effect \u2014 and it is not entirely clear that it can happen without congressional approval \u2014 Mr. Trump\u2019s announcement has already prompted drastic cost-cutting measures at the W.H.O.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21071,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21072,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21069\/revisions\/21072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}