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1. OBJECTIVES (1) To improvc the management of vaccine procurement from the international market and the national handling of vaccine shipments and thus ensure the availability of good quality vaccine at affordable prices, and (2) To enhance the ability of the governments to procure vaccines from the international market and thus ensure that the vaccines used will be of known, good quality and in sufficicnt and timely quantities.
'Phis disease i s e t i o l o g i c a l l y i d e n t i c a l or rel?ited with nephropathia epidemics in Scandinavia, Korean haernorrhagic fever and some similar diseases observed i n several countries i n South- East Asia. ' ~ n s t i t u t e of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, Academy of Medical Sciences af the USSR, Moscow. 3 ~ h i ssh ort report i s i l l u s t r a t e d by d i r e c t or generalized data of the s t u d i e s c a r r i e d out by s c i e n t i...
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El problema de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos La resistencia a los antimicrobianos (RAM) es uno de los problemas de salud pública más graves del mundo. Muchos de los microbios (bacterias, virus, protozoos) que causan enfermedades infecciosas han dejado de responder a los antimicrobianos de uso común (antibacterianos, como los antibióticos, antivíricos y antiprotozoarios). El problema es tan grave que, si no se emprende una acción concertada a escala mundial, correm...
PREFACE Each year the WHO Executive Board reviews in detail one of the Organization's programme activities. The subject chosen for 1974 was health education, and the study reproduced in these pages, which was prepared in WHO, served as a basis for the review of the Organization's programme over twenty-five years. Particular attention was paid in this study to the difficulties that health workers encounter in the field in introducing health education into their activities...
offertes a tous ceux qui en ont besoin et elles ne leur conviennent pas toujours. C'est pourquoi il est nkcessaire de rtkvaluer les technologies sanitaires, en choisissant celles qui conviennent dans certaines circonstances, en produisant de nouvelles technologies selon les besoins et en recherchant, dans toute la mesure du possible, des comportements de rechange. Pour ce faire, il faut adopter une demarche scientifique systtmatique. La technologie doit 2tre reevaluee et...
Del 3 a1 7 de octubre de 1983 se reunio en Ginebra un ComitC de Expertos de la OMS sobre Formacion de Profesores y Administradores de Enfermeria, con Especial Referencia a la Atencion Primaria de Salud. La apertura de la reunion estuvo a cargo del Dr. T. Fulop, Director de la Division de Formacion de Personal de Salud, quien desed la bienvenida a 10s participantes en nombre del Director General. El Dr. Fulop hablo del ultimo ComitC de Expertos de la OMS en enfermeria, qu...
INTRODUCTION L'objectif de la lutte antilkpreuse est triple: 1) interrompre la transmission de l'infection et diminuer ainsi l'incidence de la maladie de faqon qu'elle cesse d'etre un problkme de sante publique; 2) traiter les malades en vue d'assurer leur gukrison et, dans la mesure du possible, leur rkadaptation complkte; 3) prkvenir l'apparition des difformitks qui accompagnent cette maladie. Ces dernikres annees, les programmes de lutte antilkpre se sont heurtts un s...
Preface The purpose of this Communicable disease risk assessment and interventions: Middle East crisis – Lebanon technical note is to provide health professionals in United Nations (UN) agencies, nongovernmental organizations, donor agencies and local authorities working with conflict-affected populations with up-todate technical guidance on the major communicable disease threats faced by the emergency-affected populations. WHO, with the UN system, is responding to reque...
In the kit decades, the number of countries reportlug louseborn typhus m the Amencas has stead~ly M s h c d , whle only m,~ solatedca ses of louse-borne relapsmg fever have been reported. No ase of louse-borne relapsing fever was reponed m 1970, nor was any mportcd case of cholera m sp~tcof the pandtrmc sprcld of that dmw m Afnu and Asla.
1. INTRODUCTION Three years have passed since the meeting of the last WHO Expert Committee on Poliomyelitis in 1957.l During this time great advances in the control of the disease have been made : in addition to the widespread use of inactivated vaccines, an intensive study has been made of live attenuated poliovirus vaccines, both in the laboratory and in the field, culminating in their practical application in some countries on a scale which was scarcely envisaged in 1...
La prksente Charte a pour objct de d6finir un ensemble de principes s'int6grant aux systimes de santd existants ou permettant d'amiliorer les soins de sante dans tous les fitats membres europeens de I'Organisation mondiale de la santk. Ces principes se fondent sur I'experience acquise par les pays dans la rnise en oeuvre de la rbforme des systkmes de sant6 et sur la stratdgie europkenne de la Santk pour tous, en particulier sur les buts relatifs aux systhmes de santk.
Executive summary Cervical cancer continues to be a serious public health problem of global importance. Of the 232 000 women who die of cervical cancer annually, 192 000 live in developing countries. The incidence of cervical cancer is second to that of breast cancer. A causal link between human papillomavirus (HPV) infections and the development of cervical cancer has been demonstrated. There is little public awareness of HPV infections, their transmission route and the...
In Ecuador, the major causes of mortality in the population at large are gastroenteritis and other diarrhoeal disorders, pneumonia, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma, perinatal morbidity, and avitaminosis ( 1 ) ; those of infant mortality include gastroenteritis and other diarrhoeal disorders, bronchitis, emphysema and asthma, pneumonia and other acute respiratory infections, and childhood diseases such as tetanus, pertussis, and malnutrition. The health problems reflect ...
In his message, Dr Gezairy first pointed to the noble traditions and positive attitudes of early Islamic societies towards the mentally ill. He then described the positive steps taken to develop mental health programmes in the countries of the Region and observed that, in order to ensure the success of such programmes, they should be backed by proper legislation. He urged thc participants to look at the legislation with an open mind and with the view of integrating all a...
et desire renercier le Directeur des Services medicaux et saniet de I'Ile de Chypre de l' avoir aimablement autorise a etablir un resume de ce rapport,
1. Introduction It is a well known fact that acute respiratory infections (MI) compete with diarrhoea1 diseases as a major cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world. Their importance as a major public health problem is of particular significance in developing countries.
Au chapitre 3, nous avons expost dans ses grandes lignes le probl6me des maladies de la nutrition chez les nourrissons des rCgions tropicales et subtropicales. Dans le prtsent chapitre, nous allons tenter d'exposer les mCthodes propres a prtvenir ces syndromes.