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It is preferred to call this a workbook rather than a manual or textbook, because the intent is to, not only give technical information, but to set practical exercises that students can work through, responding to specific questions. Above all, the students should feel that they have actually carried out the tasks themselves and will be more confident to teach others and ensure that these exercises continue to be carried out in their respective areas.
1 THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE By any standards, Ethiopia, occupying the major part of the land mass known as the 'Horn of Africa', is a large country. It stretches 1,640 kilometres from north to south and 1,670 kilometres from east to west. Although its surface area of 1,225,000 square kilometres makes it geographically the tenth largest country in Africa, its population of 30 million makes it the third most populous. In the north, there is a 900 kilometre coastline on the R...
The different kinds of hospital stsphylococcal infections according ro c l i n i c a l diagnos,is are presented i n Annex 2
Japon. - Le 13 octobre, I'adrninistration sanitaire du Japon a notifie par tklkgramme un cas import6 de cholkra B Shimoda, Comtk de Kamo, Prefecture de Shizuoka. Le malade, un employe japonais, 2gC de 28 ans, 6tait arrive B Tokyo le 10 octobre B 0020 par Air India, vol No 106A venant de Bombay, via Calcutta, Bangkok, Hong Kong. I1 avait quittk Nairobi et Mombasa le 7 octobre. La maladie a kt6 rapport& le 11 octobre et le diagnostic a kt6 confirm6 le 13 (El Tor Ogawa). So...
At the meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on the International Pharmacopoeia in October 1957 it was suggested that a study should be made of the inclusion of international reference substances suitable for checking melting-points in the collection of authentic chemical substance^.^ The WHO Centre for Authentic Chemical Substances. Apotekens kontrollaboratorium, Stockholm, was authorized to propose the organization of the work and, in a report from that laboratory in 195...
INTRODUCTION In fulfilling its constitutional role as the directing and co-ordinating authority on international health work, the World Health Organization has since its inception devoted considerable attention to the problems of influenza. Its Expert Committee on Influenza has recently been considering* how best to promote international collaboration in the control of this disease, while since 1947 the WHO influenza programme, details of which will be found in an articl...
Les affections pulmonaires chroniques peuvent entralner des modifications hBmodynamiques se traduisant notamment par une ilivation de la pression pulmouaire; cette hypertension entraine une surcharge du cceur droit qui pourra a la longue se manifester 1'Qectrocardiogramme. Dans les travaux consacrCs a l'itude des ilectrocardiogrammes des patients atteints de pneumopathies chroniques, les valeurs normales n'ont gCniralement pas Btt obtenues au dipart de groupes de sujets ...
Il ne paraft pas douteux que l e prix de la quinine est a . u j o u r d t h u i encore trop 6levB. Un grand norabre de causes g contribuent, Tout d 'abord leg ddpenses aywt t r a i t B la4 production de l'6oorce de cinchona et B l a fabrication du s u l f a t e de quinine ont augment6 depuis l a guerre, Enauite l e s f r a i s de t r a n s p o r t , l e s impo^ts etc. ae sont accrus parallbleaent,
1. PURPOSE OF THE VISIT The purpose of t h i s v i s i f was ag follows: (1) t o present and discuss t r a i n i n g course material f o r h i o m d i c a l engineering; (2) t o discuss supply and equipment request made under rhe voluntary fund for health promotion - a s s i s t a n c e t o the l e a s t developed among developing countries; (3) t o review the c e n t r a l r e p a i r workshop f a c i l i t y .
Multi-position ring-substituted derivatives. The effect of three substituents on the 8-aminoquinoline ring has been examined in a few cases. Carroll et al. (.1 4). found that 2.4-dialkvl-&methoxv-8-aminoquinollne analogue., were Ichs active than primaquinc hoth in the mouw hlood sch17onta'idal and monkc) tis\uc schi~onrncidal ,
Each year, detailed statlstlcs on causes of death are reported to WHO by those countries or areas which have established vital repstration systems for ths purpose. These are primarily the developed counmes, together w~tha number of Latln American nauons. With the receipt of the cause-of-death statistics for the USSR, it is now possible to prepare an overall assessment of health conditlons (as assessed by the level and pattern of causes of death) in the developed countrie...
China's Cooperative Medical System, a community-based health insurance scheme, declined markedly after the economic restructuring of rural communities and the development of a private market in the health sector during the late 1970s. However, a study of the modified system in Taichang County, where it remains popular; has revealed that insurance premiums (calculated as a percentage of household income), copayments, the inclusion of non-agricultural workers, and strong p...
1. INTRODUCTION Le Comitk OMS d'experts de la biologie des vecteurs et la lutte antivectorielle s'est rkuni a Geneve du 7 au 13 dkcembre 1982. Le Dr I. D. Ladnyi, Sous-Directeur gCnCral, a ouvert la reunion au nom du Directeur gknkral et fait observer que les aspects administratifs et sociologiques de la lutte antivectorielle ont kt6 marquks, au cours des annkes rkcentes, par une evolution qui se traduit par l'abandon progressif de l'administration de type ((vertical)) a...
INTRODUCTION Dans son allocution d'ouverture,le Dr Pavlov a reppele qu'en 1969 le Comite OMS d'experts de la planification de I'organisation et de I'administration des programmes nationaux d'hygiene du milieu avait.
Alimentation actuelle de I'enfant: Allaitement au sein et infusions 2 a 3 fois par jour. L'enfant dort avec vous la nuit et tete lorsqu'il le peut durant la journee, environ 3 fois par jour. Sant6 et comportement de l'enfant: II va bien, mais il semble qu'il pleure beaucoup. Votre fille de 7 ans le porte souvent et il suce une tetine. Vous ne savez pas combien de fois il urine, etant absente dans la journee. Grossesse, naissance, alimentation pr6coce: Enfant ne a domicil...
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1.1 Variole Ce terme comprend h la fois l a variole franche e t la variole mineure ou alastrim. k s cette region du monde, la variole franche est seule rencontr6e. 1.2 Varioloide Ce terme eat inddsirable en ce qu'il suggkre ltid8e a'une maladie analogue B l a variole mais qui nlest pas la variole. La variole modlflk par une vaccination antkieure r h s s i e peut o f f r i r un tableau clinique tout A fdt different de celui obsexv4 chez un sujet non vaccin4, d sel le prov...
Notifications rwucs aux termcs du R&glement sanitaire international wnwmkt les circonscriptions infecttes ou les temtoires oh la prksence de maladies quarantenaires a t t t signalk (voir page 8). a = Cirwnscriptions ou temtoiras notifiks aux termes de l'anicle 3 A la date domte. Autres temtoires ob la prtsenw de maladies quarantenaires a ktk notiiik aux termes des articles 4, 5 et 9 a): A = pendant la p6riode indiquk sous le nom de chaque maladie; B = anttrieurement il l...
1.Resume Buts mondiaux. L'OMS et I'UNTCEF se sont donni conjointement pour bur historique le difi d'iliminer ou de combattre la malnutrition due i des carences en micronutriments, et notamment d'iliminer la carence en vitamine A et toutes ses consiquences avant l'an 2000. Le but i mi-dicennie fixi pour la fin de 1995 est de faire cn sorte qu'au moins 80 % des enfants de moins de 24 mois vivant duns des rigeons oh l'apport de vitamzne A est insarfkant uient ula dpport adi...
Director-General Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, MD, today hosted the first formal Roundtable meeting between World Health Organization (WHO) and senior executives from the food and associated industries. The meeting, in Geneva, discussed ways the food industry could work with WHO to encourage healthier diets and increased physical activity worldwide.