Founding year orders health institutions by the year each one was established. Wikipedia records that the World Health Organization "was established on 7 April 1948, and formally began its work on 1 September 1948," dates the agency itself still marks each year as World Health Day. Browsing by founding year traces how organized global health work has grown over time.
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1. Wikipedia: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
WikipediaInternational Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Founding sectionQuote, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Founding section
On 5 May 1919, following the First World War, representatives from the National Red Cross Societies of the Allied Powers (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, and United States) came together in Paris to establish the League of Red Cross Societies (LORCS)...
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