world health organization

1. 1.

   a United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services

   SynonymsWHOW.H.O.

   BroaderUnited Nations agency

Questions about world health organization

What does world health organization mean?

world health organization means "a United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services".

What is another word for world health organization?

Close synonyms include WHO, W.H.O.. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is world health organization a common word?

world health organization is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.