MAKING THE WORLD-HEALTH-ORGANIZATION WORK - A LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO THE CONDITIONS FOR HEALTH

Improving global health conditions has been one of the most important and difficult challenges for the world community. Despite concerted ef forts by international organizations, like the World Health Organizati on, great disparities in health conditions remain between developed an d developing countries, as well as within those countries. The World H ealth Organization has achieved some successes through its Health for All strategy; however, it can and should encourage member nations to e nact national and international laws to protect and promote the health status of their populations. A comparison to the lawmaking efforts in other areas by international organizations indicates that WHO may hav e the authority and the means to institutionalize efforts to improve g lobal health conditions.