World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO)

The objective of the World Health Organization shall be the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. The health profile of the Western Pacific Region reveals a combination of diseases associated with poverty and those associated with affluence. Malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhoeal and parasitic diseases, micronutrient deficiency disorders; these and other afflictions traditionally associated with the developing world, are being joined now by lifestyle-related diseases - heart disease, cancers and diabetes.

- Address:

PO Box 2932
1000 Manila
Philippines

- Telephone:

+63 2 528 80 01

- FAX:

+63 2 521 10 36 / 536 02 79

- E-mail:

postmaster@who.org.ph

- Web:

http://www.wpro.who.int/

- Org. type:

Intergovernmental