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Research a selected local, national, or global nonprofit organization or government agency to determine how it contributes to public health and safety improvements, promotes equal opportunity, and improves the quality of life within the community. Submit your findings in a 3-5 page report.

Graded Requirements

The research requirements, outlined below, correspond to the grading criteria in the assessment scoring guide, so be sure to address each point.

Explain how the organization’s mission and vision enable it to contribute to public health and safety improvements.
- Include examples of ways a local and/or global initiative supports organizationalmission and vision and promotes public health and safety.
Evaluate an organization’s ability to promote equal opportunity and improve the quality of life in the community.
- Consider the effects of social, cultural, economic, and physical barriers.
Assess the impact of funding sources, policy, and legislation on the organization’s provision of services.
- Consider the potential implications of funding decisions, policy, and legislation for individuals, families, and aggregates within the community.
Explain how an organization’s work impacts the health and/or safety needs of a local community.
- Consider how nurses might become involved with the organization.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
- Write with a specific purpose and audience in mind.
- Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and APA formatting requirements.

Choose the organization or agency you are most interested in researching:

American Red Cross.
Habitat for Humanity.
United Way.
Doctors Without Borders.
The Salvation Army.
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
National Center for Transgender Equality.
National Resource Center on LGBT Aging.
Advocacy & Services for LGBT Elders.
Equal Justice Initiative.
National Alliance to End Homelessness.
Urban Triage.
World Health Organization.
The Arc: For People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Alliance for Retired Americans.
Futures Without Violence.
Blue Campaign: What Is Human Trafficking?
Covenant House.
Cultural Survival.

P · Accepted Answer

World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO is a worldwide non-profit organization involved in promoting health to keep the world safe and to serve the vulnerable (Wright et al., 2020). WHO is the United Nations specialized agency involved in universal health care by monitoring the risks, emergencies with headquarters located in Geneva, Switzerland (Wright et al., 2020).
Objectives:
1. One billion people with universal health coverage which is being tracked by the 15 indicators (Wright et al., 2020).
2. To protect one more billion people from outbreaks and health emergencies which are being tracked by 6 indicators and the other objective is to provide better health (Wright et al., 2020).
3. Well-being to one more billion people which are being tracked by 14 SDG indicators(Wright et al., 2020) .
WHO  is a global level decision-making forum constitutes nearly  8000+ professionals globally from 194 nations,  which constitutes health care experts, researchers, scientists and managers in coordinating with each other in response to the health emergencies, promote the healthy well-being, disease prevention and expansion of the health care services across the world with the provided scientific evidence to provide an equal opportunity for the safe and healthy life of public globally (Foundation, 2017).
Funding Sources:
The funding sources for the WHO are through member states and other partners via  assessed contributions and the other is Voluntary contributions (VC) (Foundation, 2017) . WHO emergency funding is a quick response funding used to control the costs during emergency outbreaks which have impacts both socially and economically. It works in coordination with the NGO, local governments and partners (Katz, Attal-Juncqua, & Fischer, 2017).
Some of the policies of the WHO are
1. To establish effective coordination and collaboration between the government organization, non- governmental organisations and other local institutions (Bloom & Cadarette, 2019).
2. To provide  and promote assistance, establish and maintain the health care services to attain the maximum health benefits to the public for the better survival (Bloom & Cadarette, 2019).
3. Cooperation among various professional groups in the improvement of nutrition, sanitation and other for the healthier maintenance of the environment (Bloom & Cadarette, 2019).
Effects of social, cultural economic and physical barriers:
1. Some of the environmental impacts are that most of the people are living in unhealthy environments accounting for almost 100 diseases, where the number of deaths is one among 4 affected individuals. The environmental risk factors are pollution (water, air, soil, chemicals hazards) (Flies et al., 2019).
2. The health hazards associated with tobacco smoking, drugs,

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