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1. ... the health visitor is pointing out the danger of drying a nappy before the fire

Subject(s):: Child
Health Education
World Health Organization

2. The old, no less than the younger generations, are entitles to their share of right- including the right to care and compassion

Subject(s):: Aged
Physicians
Patients
World Health Organization

3. " In this age of machinery and nuclear energy ..." Cancer: determination of the wrist-towrist circulation time by means of radioiodine is a useful diagnostic technique

Subject(s):: Patients
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

4. A "barefoot" doctor listens to the heartbeat of the unborn child. These useful community health workers used once to be literally barfoot, when they brought their healing skills to wokers int he rice paddy- fields

Subject(s):: Stethoscopes
Obstetrics
World Health Organization

5. "Dr. R.D. Lawrence" Diabetic Ward at King's Hospital, London

Subject(s):: Hospital Units
World Health Organization

6. "Even the best cigarettes..." warns this Soviet poster, can be your tomb

Subject(s):: Public Health
Death
USSR
World Health Organization

7. "I've stopped smoking and cut down on alcohol - and feel so good!"

Subject(s):: Public Health
France
World Health Organization

8. "In this age of machinery and nuclear energy..." Heart disease: our photo shows a delicate operation in progress, carried out by Prof. de Watteville of the University of Geneva

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Health Personnel
Operating Rooms
World Health Organization

9. "Smoke and you destroy yourself."

Subject(s):: Death
Public Health
USSR
World Health Organization

10. "We don't want to inhale nicotine" says the child on this Soviet poster

Subject(s):: Public Health
USSR
World Health Organization

11. "What could be better than a shared cigarette?"

Subject(s):: Women
Public Health
World Health Organization

12. ... a heart case is rushed through the streets of Moscow

Subject(s):: Ambulances
Cardiovascular Diseases
Transportation of Patients
Moscow
World Health Organization

13. ... a little boy treated for Banti's disease by Arab quacks

Subject(s):: Physical Examination
Child
Physicians
Quackery
World Health Organization

14. ... autopsy specimens of coronary arteries

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
World Health Organization

15. ... efforts to treat the child's double pneumonia were of no avail

Subject(s):: Mothers
Mother-Child Relations
World Health Organization

16. ... micro x-ray photographs of a chick embryo heart from 3rd to 11th day

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

17. ... plastic phantoms filled with sodium chloride solution are used for measuring radioactivity

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Radiation
World Health Organization

18. ... state-run health facilities of Kromeriz: the surgical department has seven doctors and 120 beds

Subject(s):: Nurses
Operating Rooms
Surgical Instruments
Public Health
World Health Organization

19. ... studying blood circulation in the new-born

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
World Health Organization

20. 40 years against malaria: Dr. E. Pampana, first Director of Malaria Eradication in WHO, in his laboratory in Florence, Italy

Subject(s):: Malaria
World Health Organization

21. 40,000 people are killed by snakebite every year according to conservative estimates

Subject(s):: Snake Bites
World Health Organization

22. A Chinese "barefoot doctor" uses her needles to treat a production brigade worker

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
Physicians
Patients
World Health Organization

23. A Malaysian bomoh prepares a herbal offering to ward off evil spirits

Subject(s):: Medicine, Traditional
Religion and Medicine
World Health Organization

24. A Nigerian boy with Burkitt's lymphoma of the mandible

Subject(s):: Child
Nigeria
World Health Organization

25. A centuries-old drawing in a Shanghai museum

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
Students, Medical
Medical Illustration
Education, Medical
World Health Organization

26. [A child with kuru, a fatal nervous system disorder]

Subject(s):: Child
New Guinea
World Health Organization

27. A collection of centuries-old needles, on display at Shanghai's Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
World Health Organization

28. A disturbed man reverting to childhood

Author(s):: Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828, artist
Subject(s):: Mental Disorders
World Health Organization

29. A group of young European males engaged in a drinking bout

Subject(s):: Alcohol Drinking
World Health Organization

30. A happy mother and a happy child in a health centre at Francistown, Botswana. A combination which throughout the ages has been the hallmark of a satisfactory quality of life

Subject(s):: Mothers
Mother-Child Relations
Infant
World Health Organization

31. [A healthy child among victims of kwashiorkor]

Subject(s):: Child
World Health Organization

32. A laboratory at Babol, Iran, where work on a WHO cancer project is in progress

Subject(s):: Laboratories
Equipment and Supplies
Iran
World Health Organization

33. A laminar flow hood ensures sterile conditions as tissue cultures are being prepared at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at Lyon-France. IRAC carries out reasearch in carcinogenesis for WHO

Subject(s):: France
World Health Organization

34. A lesson in dental care in Thailand. Prevention of tooth decay in childhood is of major importance

Subject(s):: Toothbrushing
Child
Health Education
World Health Organization

35. A modern European pharmacy

Subject(s):: Emblems and Insignia
Pharmacies
Pharmacists
World Health Organization

36. A modern anatomy chart for Chinese medical students shows the acupuncture points and meridians

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
Medical Illustration
Education, Medical
World Health Organization

37. A modern malady - the over-consumption of drugs

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

38. A pan dealer in Bombay

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

39. [A patient in germ-free plastic capsule]

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

40. A patient in the cardiological department

Subject(s):: Aged
Physicians
Pulse
Public Health
Patients

41. [A patient is being assisted while walking shortly after eye surgery]

Subject(s):: Bandages
Patients
World Health Organization

42. A patient undergoing Thirummal treatment, in which his body is covered with medicated oil and massaged delicately by hand or foot: one of the accepted techniques of Ayurveda

Subject(s):: Medicine, Traditional
World Health Organization

43. A pest that causes all the trouble. A close-up of the blackfly, Simulium damnosum, feeding on human blood

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

44. A pharmacist shows her collection of dried frogs and lizards. When powered and drunk in wine or water, they are said to be effective against diseases of respiratory tract

Subject(s):: Pharmacists
Women
World Health Organization

45. [A physician demonstrates how easy it is to inject insulin]

Subject(s):: Physicians
Injections
Child
World Health Organization

46. [A physician with students at the bedside of an old man]

Subject(s):: Aged
Schools, Medical
Students, Medical
Education, Medical
Teaching
Stethoscopes
Patients
Netherlands
World Health Organization

47. A preventable disease - river blindness - cost this man his sight

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

48. A recent method of diagnosing detachment of the retina by examining the eyeground with a three-mirror glass devised by Professor Goldman of Berne, Switzerland

Subject(s):: Ophthalmology
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

49. A routine check-up for a diabetes sufferer

Subject(s):: Aged
Physical Examination
Patients
World Health Organization

50. A specially equipped ambulance linked by radio to the coronary care unit of a hospital. Energency treatment can be started immediatley

Subject(s):: Ambulances
Cardiovascular Diseases
Health Personnel
Transportation of Patients
Patients
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

51. A syphilis patient

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

52. A traditional doctor examines her patient's tongue and makes her diagnosis

Subject(s):: Pulse
World Health Organization

53. [A victim of kuru]

Subject(s):: Death
New Guinea
World Health Organization

54. A victim of onchoceriasis, not yet 40 years old, being led by a child

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

55. A view of Haifa

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

56. A woman health educator giving a health talk to a group on board a fishing junk

Subject(s):: Teaching
Health Education
World Health Organization

57. A young English doctor discovers the ultimate defence against smallpox

Subject(s):: Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823.

58. [A young boy with polio]

Subject(s):: Nurses
Orthopedic Equipment
Child

59. A young diabetic learns how to give himself injections by first practicing on an orange

Subject(s):: Injections
Women
World Health Organization

60. [A young diabetic testing his blood sugar level]

Subject(s):: Child
World Health Organization

61. A young man leaving to defend his doctorate in medicine

Subject(s):: Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
Netherlands
Peer Review
World Health Organization

62. A young physician in Hungary makes her rounds and pays particular attention to families where a xase of diabetes exists. She is explaining to the mother of such a family how to prepare a balanced diet suited to the special requirements of diabetics

Subject(s):: Women
World Health Organization

63. Above all, nursing means the offer of loving care and attention when it is most needed

Subject(s):: Clothing
Nurses
World Health Organization

64. [Acupuncture anesthesia during an operation to remove a lung tumor]

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
Patients
World Health Organization

65. Acupuncture being practised in France

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
Physicians
Patients
France
World Health Organization

66. [Acupuncture being used as anesthesia during chest operation]

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
Operating Rooms
Patients
Nurses
World Health Organization

67. Acupuncture is a routinely accepted part of medical practice

Subject(s):: Acupuncture
World Health Organization

68. After the operation a bandage remains on the eye to which sight has been restored

Subject(s):: Bandages
Nurses
Hospital Units
Patients
World Health Organization

69. After the poison is collected, the next stage in the production of anti-snakebite serum is dehydration with a vacuum pump

Subject(s):: Snake Bites
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

70. [Air pollution in Los Angeles]

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

71. Albert Deutsch

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

72. [American Cancer Society volunteer assisting a patient in Tennessee]

Subject(s):: Volunteers
Women
Patients
World Health Organization

73. An 18th century pharmacy from Köszeg, Hungary - part of a display in the semmelweis Museum of Medical History in Budapest

Subject(s):: Pharmacies
World Health Organization

74. [Anti-opium poster in Hong Kong]

Subject(s):: Health Education
World Health Organization

75. The apathy and sadness of malnutrition. This girl in a hospital in Jordan is suffering from a severe protien- calorie deficiency

Subject(s):: Hospital Units
Child
World Health Organization

76. A child at play. However, the game this little turkish girl is playing with is specially made for blind children who have to substitute the sense of touch for that of sight

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

77. Attention les jeunes: gardez-vous des Maladies Vénériennes

Subject(s):: Health Education
France
World Health Organization

78. Autonomy is essential for diabetic sufferers: Daily self-injection

Subject(s):: Injections
Child
World Health Organization

79. A basis of practical knowledge underlies the spiritual healer's rulings on when to eat certain fruits or when they are forbidde, Taboo

Subject(s):: Medicine, Traditional
World Health Organization

80. Before a decision on treatment is made, the patient is examined thoroughly. The examination may include heart catheterization ans angiography. The A.L Miasmikov Institute of Cardiology in Moscow conducts detailed studies of the various cardiovascular disease and their distribution in relation to age

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Physicians
Patients
Equipment and Supplies
Nurses
USSR
World Health Organization

81. Birth of a doctor at Leyden, one of the most ancient and renowned universites in the world. 3,342 hours of lecture, 927 hours of practical work before the final ordeal of the diploma. ."Abandon hope, all Ye who enter here." is written large over the entrance to the examination room

Subject(s):: Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
Netherlands
World Health Organization

82. Blackflies

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

83. Blood circulation in the newborn

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Infant, Newborn
Cardiovascular Diseases
World Health Organization

84. Breast-feeding gives a baby the best start in life. What was sound in traditional practices of the past should not be destroyed in the name of progress

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

85. Bulk transport of pharmaceuticals - in this case anti-cholera supplies en route to South-East Asia. Whatever the moevment of drugs takes place, and particularly when they have to be repackaged, what is important from the point view of safegauarding drug quality is to locate the high-risk points

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

86. The call to the hospital

Subject(s):: Emergency Medical Services
Public Health
World Health Organization

87. [Canadian health service airplane ambulance]

Subject(s):: Transportation of Patients
Public Health
World Health Organization

88. Cancer clinics and cancer institutes have been set up throughout the Eastern Mediterranean Region. This woman is having a mammography test - which uses x-rays to check for possible breast cancer- at the Salah Azaïz Cancer Institute in Tunis

Subject(s):: Cancer Care Facilities
Radiography
X-Rays
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

89. A cancer patient receives cobalt therapy at the Tirana Cancer Institute

Subject(s):: Cancer Care Facilities
Radiotherapy
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

90. [Cancer treatment requires teamwork among various specialists]

Subject(s):: Cancer Care Facilities
Referral and Consultation
France
World Health Organization

91. Cauterization, the application of heat, is a recognized form of treatment for certain mental disorders under the Tibetan system of medicine, which draws on both Ayurveda and Chinese traditional healing

Subject(s):: Patients
Mental Disorders
Physicians
Medicine, Traditional
World Health Organization

92. The cells in our body have learned to work as a team, and the strength of the team depends upon collaboration between it individual units. These Bavarian schoolboys are al diabetics

Subject(s):: Child
World Health Organization

93. The child should still be breast-fed until he is two-years-old. This is our tradition. It is good we should keep it

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

94. Children in the Netherlands learning how to keep their mouths healthy. Good habits started early in life are a sound foundation for oral health

Subject(s):: Dental Offices
Dental Equipment
Dental Instruments
Toothbrushing
Child
Health Education
Netherlands
World Health Organization

95. [Children with kuru, a fatal nervous system disorder]

Subject(s):: Child
New Guinea
World Health Organization

96. The chiropodist is a medical auxiliary qualified to treat superficial foot complaints such as ingrown toenails, callouses ans corns, which can make walking an agony

Subject(s):: Health Personnel
World Health Organization

97. [Class in midwifery for medical assistants]

Subject(s):: Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
Midwifery
Students, Medical
Teaching
African Continental Ancestry Group
World Health Organization

98. [Classroom instruction in anatomy]

Subject(s):: Anatomy
Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
Teaching
Netherlands
World Health Organization

99. The coast guard keeps a strict watch

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

100. Congenital malformations of the heart originate in the embryo

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
World Health Organization