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Introduction The Third World Health Assembly,meeting in may 1950,approved the holding of experts on maternity care. The Expert Committee on Maternity Care held its first session in Geneva from 5 to 9 November 1951.
Se reconoce que para poder estudiar 10s numerosos y complejos factores que intervienen en la epidemiologia de enfermedades tales como las cardiovasculares y el csincer, se hace necesario, ante todo, identificar nhleos de poblaci6n que presenten diferenoias significativas en cuanto a la mortalidad por dichas enfermedades. Esto requiere a su vez obtener datos tan comparables como sea posible sobre paises que tengan las msis diversas condiciones biol6gicas y ambientales. Pa...
Chemical pesticides continue to be the mainstay of most public2 health vector control programmes. Although WHO is trying to develop biological control agents and environmental modifications for use in vector control, there is at present and during the immediate future an urgent need for safe and effective pesticides and thus for valid specifications for these pesticides. The Committee therefore addressed itself to the task of revising the specifications and analytical me...
Diarrhoeal disease is a conglomerate term which covers the disease states in which diarrhoea is a major sign. High prevalence of diarrhoeal disease is associated with inadequacy of personal and public hygienic facilities, and with crowding, poverty, and malnutrition. As a public health problem, concern is chiefly with infants and young children because of the high morbidity and mortality in this age-group. Programmes for the control of diarrhoeal disease must be designe...
2. Introduction The Director of t h e Division. of ,Therapeutic Substances opened the session by thanking members far t h e i r help i n submitting i n advance proposals f o r discussion at the meeting. Many documents had been received from members of the Expert Advisory Panel on the International Pharmacopoeia and Pharmaceutical Preparations and other s p e c i a l i s t s throughout the world as a result of requests from WHO f:]r information, draft t e x t s , criticis...
WHO, 1948-1998 The origins of WHO Public health beyond national borders was considered in 1851 at an international sani-tary conference held in Paris. Five of the 12 participating countries signed an international sanitary convention to which was annexed the text of in-ternational sanitary regulations.
The Fifty-first World Health Assembly, Having considered the report of the Director-General on emerging and other communicable diseases: antimicrobial resistance; Concerned about the rapid emergence and spread of human pathogens resistant to available antibiotics; Aware that antimicrobial resistance is increasingly hampering treatment of infectious diseases as a result either of totally ineffective currently available antibiotics or of the high cost of new generation age...
Ce Relevt est pubht par la Sectlon des Conventions Sanitaires et de la Quarantaine* de I'Orgalusation Mondiale de la Santt, qui, en vertu des Accords internationauu signts a New-York le 22 julllet 1946, remplace les services bpidtmiolo~ ques de l'Office -international d ' ~ ~ & n e Pubhque de Pans, de la SociCtt des Nations et de ~'UNRRA. I1 rdsulte de la fus~on de leurs ptriodiques hebdomadaires et bi-mensuels. Les notifications relatives aux maladles pest]- lentielles ...
An experimental programme for the control of arterial hypertension was initiated at community level in the Soviet Union during the 1970s. It was undertaken in district outpatient clinics and medical departments of industrial enterprises, the major units of primary health care in the country (I). The programme covered more than 80 000 men aged 35-54 employed in industrial enterprises in 22 cities, and 70 000 aged 40-59 in open population groups from selected communities i...
I. Introduction E g h t y delegates from 15 countries participated in a meeting entitled Launching and Promoting the Female Condom in Eastern and Southern Africa sponsored by UNAIDS, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Population Services International (PSI), with support from International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). The objectives of the meeting were: to provide an update on recent studies and current knowledge regarding female condoms: to share informati...
The paper deserlbee some worldwide perspectives of problous related to the prevention of disabilty and rahabilitation, and of physlotherapy as a part of it.
INTRODUCTION Des les temps les plus reculCs, l'homme a dG mobiliser toutes les ressources de son esprit dans la lutte pour la vie qui l'opposait B ses adversaires B deux, quatre et six pattes. I1 fut un temps ou, sorti victorieux du combat, il mangeait de son adversaire tout ce que son estomac pouvait supporter. I1 est peut-@tre vrai, comme le prttendait Hippocrate, qu'a cette Cpoque (( les hommes tprouvaient souvent des souffrances terribles dues B leur rCgime indigeste...
The present report fnmw part of the a c t i v i t i e s of the regional projcct on manpower requirements in environmental health, which s t a r t e d i n 1973.
Addis Ababa - The World Health Organization (WHO) Goodwill Ambassador for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and supermodel Liya Kebede has highlighted the plight of millions of women and girls living with obstetric fistula.
Since then Dr. Lucas and Dr. de Silva have had the E?!LRCS degree conferred on them, and the following anaesthetiats have returned t o the island. with that degree: Dr. G. Gunk~atno, Dr. J. Richards, Dr. S.Ponnambalam, Dr. B.S. Perera, 'Dr. T .W. Vanniasingham and Dr. littygdle.
Geneva - Strong advances in the remaining polio endemic areas and the recent introduction of new tools have moved the global polio eradication effort into its final phase in all but one country of the world. The conclusion reached this week in Geneva by the Advisory Committee on Polio Eradication (ACPE), the independent, technical oversight body of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, is that polio could be finished within the next six months everywhere, except in Nigeria.
Antiprotozoal drugs Drugs used in amoebiasis Amoebic dysentery, caused by Entamoeba histolytica, occurs when protozoan parasites invade the wall of the large intestine. Trophozoites may also invade the appendix and terminal ileum, or may reach the liver and produce an amoebic liver abscess. Extension of hepatic lesions may reach the right chest, the peritoneum and the pericardium. Less commonly, the lesion extends through the skin, producing a sinus and cutaneous lesion....
ABSTRACT Heiner, G. G. (Institute of International Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. 21201), Nusrat Fatima, R.W. Daniel, J.L. Cole, R.L. Anthony and F.R. McCrumb, jr. A study of inapparent infection in smallpox. A retrospective serologic study was conducted in villages and households in which recent smallpox outbreaks had occurred but in which vaccination by public health authorities had not been carried out. Sera were collected from 143...
Im letzten Jahrzehnt ist die GFA-Stracegie (GFA = Gesundheit fiir alle) in den meisten europaischen Mitgliedstaaten der WHO zu einem Model1 fur die gesundheicspolitische ~ntwicklung gewocden. So wird jctzt in einem Drittel der europaischen Mitgliedstaaten eine mit der europaischen WHO-Politik ubereinstimmende CFA-Strategic verfolgt. Auch auf anderen institutionellen Ebenen ist das Bemiihen um ein breit angelegtes Konzept fur das offentliche Gesundheitswesen und urn einen...