WHO's vision of global health, based on equity and solidarity, calls for building new partnerships of international agencies, donors, ministries, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), academic institutions, private initiatives across diverse sectors such as travel and communications, communities, and citizens.

Present challenges call for urgent action on behalf of the international community. Implications for WHO are as follows:
• Health, peace, environmental protection, relative prosperity and development must be viewed as interdependent and indivisible;
• Health policies must reach beyond the health sector to constitute an integral part of sustainable development;
• Thus, each of WHO's working areas reflects the striving for equity and sustainable development;
• International and cross-sectional health partnerships must be forged to achieve health for all; • In a world of diminishing resources, people must assume responsibility for their own health and that of others.

Area of work
World Health Organization is present in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1992. The Biennial Collaborative Agreement (BCA) 2004/2005 between WHO and Bosnia and Herzegovina directs implementation of activities around three major dimensions of work:
• Health service provision (field technical interventions),
• Health system infrastructure development (financing and resource generation), and
• Health policy and other stewardship elements.

The following thematic areas are considered to be priority areas for collaboration:

1. Mental Health and Substance Abuse

2. Health Care Reform (support to EU Programme)
- Management and Coordination of the Project
- Component 1: Health Policy with focus on Management, PHC and Nursing
- Component 2: Pharmaceutical sector development
- Component 3: Accreditation and Quality Assurance
- Component 4: Public Health Management and Planning, with focus on Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response

3. Immunization and Preventable Diseases

4. Non Communicable Diseases

5. Food Safety