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Nursing is underrepresented
EDITOR,--Fiona Godlee's controversial articles on the World Health Organisation expose its strengths and weaknesses but make scant mention of the contribution of nursing to its operations and organisation.1 This is particularly regrettable given the articles' attention to the medical dominance of the organisation. We can conclude only that the absence of any substantive discussion of nursing reflects the perceived invisibility of nursing within the organisation more generally.
A recent study of nurses in government and non-government organisations across the world chronicled the fluctuating fortunes of the nursing policy base at the WHO since its inception in 1948 and the consequences of nursing's diminished voice in international matters of health.2 The contemporary history of the WHO's operations as represented by Godlee suggests the retreat of professionals into enclaves of skill, bureaucratic shelters from the sullying sins of the real world. Yet much of the success of the WHO's programmes has been
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