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1. Keep Mauritius AIDS free

Publication:: Mauritius : Mauritius College of the Air, [between 1983 and 2000?]
Subject(s):: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control
Mauritius

2. Whole body counter in scanning bed

Publication:: [1969?]
Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

3. [Physician's assistant receives influenza vaccination]

Author(s):: Farkas, Tibor, 1934- photographer
Publication:: [1971]
Subject(s):: Influenza, Human -- prevention & control
Influenza Vaccines
Physician Assistants
Women

4. Aerial view of the Ndola Hospital complex in Zambia, which will house a research centre for WHO's Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases

Subject(s):: Hospitals
World Health Organization

5. Hospital conditions are not always as hygienic as modern medical care demands

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

6. [Sun roof at Stockholm's Karolinska Hospital]

Subject(s):: Hospitals
World Health Organization

7. Maternity Home in Ulan Bator

Publication:: 1976
Subject(s):: Nurses
World Health Organization

8. [Injection of a sulfone-oil suspension]

Publication:: 1977
Subject(s):: Injections
Child
World Health Organization

9. [The tell-tale signs of leprosy]

Publication:: 1979
Subject(s):: World Health Organization

10. [A young female leprosy patient]

Publication:: 1950
Subject(s):: World Health Organization

11. [Physical examination of a leprosy patient]

Publication:: 1979
Subject(s):: Physicians
Physical Examination
World Health Organization

12. [Appreciative spectators during entertainment and dancing in a leper colony]

Publication:: [195-]
Subject(s):: World Health Organization

13. [A wax bath for a young male leprosy patient]

Publication:: 1979
Subject(s):: World Health Organization

14. [A young leprosy patient with bandaged fingers]

Publication:: 1979
Subject(s):: Bandages
World Health Organization

15. From the era of witch doctor to the era of physician

Publication:: 1959
Subject(s):: Physicians
Physical Examination
Child
World Health Organization

16. The Lomé Research Centre

Publication:: 1968?
Subject(s):: Malaria
African Continental Ancestry Group
World Health Organization

17. The epidemic attacks mainly children and young people

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

18. Practical work for medical students at Teheran University

Publication:: 1968
Subject(s):: Dissection
Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
Women
Laboratories
Iran
World Health Organization

19. Anatomy course for Swedish officers at a school in Göteborg

Publication:: 1968?
Subject(s):: Students, Medical
Education, Medical
Teaching
Anatomy
World Health Organization

20. The main entrance hall of the Royal Infirmary

Publication:: 1967?
Subject(s):: Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
World Health Organization

21. [Dental students in a laboratory]

Publication:: 1967?
Subject(s):: Dentures
Dental Equipment
Women
World Health Organization

22. [Medical students in a laboratory]

Publication:: 1968
Subject(s):: Dissection
Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
Teaching
Women
Iran
World Health Organization

23. The upper library in the old University building

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

24. [Conglese medical student taking notes at a university in Lyons, France]

Publication:: [1962?]
Subject(s):: Students, Medical
Education, Medical
African Continental Ancestry Group
Women
World Health Organization

25. [Surgical clinic at the Baroda Medical College]

Publication:: 1968?
Subject(s):: Schools, Medical
Education, Medical
Horses
World Health Organization

26. Interviewing an adolescent in Asia and application of the Rorschach test

Publication:: 1959
Subject(s):: Mental Disorders
World Health Organization

27. From the era of witch doctors to the era of physicians

Publication:: 1959
Subject(s):: Medicine, Traditional
Pharmacies
Pharmacists
World Health Organization

28. The pharmacy at the St. Elizabeth Hospital in Vienna, Austria

Subject(s):: Pharmacies
Pharmacists
World Health Organization

29. The positive approach to discourage young people from smoking

Publication:: 1968
Subject(s):: Famous Persons
Public Health
World Health Organization

30. The right to a smoke-free environment is spreading in public places, public transport and at work

Publication:: 1980
Subject(s):: Public Health
World Health Organization

31. ... villagers of Djipologo, Upper Volta, who have lost their sight due to onchocerciasis

Publication:: [1950-1965?]
Subject(s):: Onchocerciasis, Ocular -- epidemiology
Blindness
Eye Diseases
Burkina Faso
World Health Organization

32. For many thousands of West African onchocerciasis is a reality that leaves an unhappy legacy of damaged or destroyed eyesight

Publication:: 1978
Subject(s):: Onchocerciasis, Ocular
Eye Diseases
Blindness
Africa, Western
World Health Organization

33. Stockholm's Karolinska hospital - this boy works a stationary bicycle while his heart is being tested for abnormalities

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Nurses
Child
Sweden
World Health Organization

34. The doctor takes throat swabs for laboratory examination

Subject(s):: Nurses
Health Education
Child
Physicians
Physical Examination

35. Measuring the blood pressure

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Nurses
Stethoscopes
World Health Organization

36. Public health nurse checks blood pressure of an elderly patient. Such routine checks will help to reduce the threat of heart attacks and strokes in this high-risk area of Finland

Subject(s):: Aged
Cardiovascular Diseases
Public Health
Nurses
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

37. Hypertension detection team at work in India. A standard method of compiling the data from such surveys has been suggeseted by WHO, but it is a flexible system and can be modified to suit local conditions

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Health Personnel
Public Health
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

38. You can now take your own blood pressure without the aid of a doctor and the method is the most objective known so far. This new device will aid research into hypertention

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Hypertension
Blood Pressure
Women
World Health Organization.

39. Blood pressure being taken of a suspected case of hypertension

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Health Personnel
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

40. Checking blood pressure with an electronic machine

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

41. Emergency treatment at home for a victim of a stroke

Subject(s):: Emergency Medical Services
Physicians
Patients
World Health Organization

42. Routine medical check-ups include measuring blood pressure

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

43. A pacemaker to prevent heart block is bbeing passed into the patient's right ventricle while the checks its position on the x-ray screen

Subject(s):: Physicians
Equipment and Supplies
Nurses
World Health Organization

44. Difference phases of a heart operation. 12743: The machine that circulates blood to the vessels in the heart and brain during the operation while the heart itself is stopped. 12745: reconnecting the arteries by sewing together with a device developed in the Soviet Union several years ago ans since adopted by cardiac surgeons all over the world. 12744: after the operation an electric stimulator is applied in the heart area to start a regular beat

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

45. In an intensive care unit, monitoring by electrocardiograph continues day and night

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Health Personnel
Equipment and Supplies
Sweden
World Health Organization

46. This school girl is at home with a sore throat and the doctor checks her heart

Subject(s):: Physical Examination
Physicians
Stethoscopes
Equipment and Supplies
Child
World Health Organization

47. [Electrocardiogram on child in Kenya]

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

48. Rest for young patients

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

49. [Physician with emergency heart patient]

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Patients
Physicians
Nurses
Referral and Consultation
World Health Organization

50. An electronic device which "listens" to heart sounds

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

51. Open heart operation

Subject(s):: Surgical Instruments
Operating Rooms
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

52. [Mother with young heart patient in Uganda]

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

53. ... a waiting room for cardiac patients taking part in a survey of cardiovascular diseases

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Hospitals
Patients
Sweden
World Health Organization

54. ... a patient brought back from clinical death

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
USSR
World Health Organization

55. Streptococcal culture being examined

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

56. In a small Finnish village, a woman is interviewed by a health worker

Author(s):: Farkas, Tibor, 1934- photographer
Publication:: [1955-1975?]
Subject(s):: Medical History Taking
Women
Health Workforce
Finland
World Health Organization.

57. Taking blood sample for cholesterol measurement

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Physicians
Physician Assistants
World Health Organization

58. Laboratory tests may be useful to patients with hypertension

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

59. Much of the work in felling and transporting timber has been mechanized in Finland

Author(s):: Willard, Nedd, photographer
Subject(s):: Healthy Lifestyle
Cardiovascular Diseases -- prevention & control
Finland
World Health Organization.

60. An elderly woman has her blood tested for blood sugar, uric acid and cholesterol levels in the course of a hypertension study made by the Philippine Heart Centre for Asia

Author(s):: Abcede, José, photographer
Publication:: [1978]
Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases -- prevention & control
Hypertension -- prevention & control
Hematologic Tests
Women
Patients
Philippines
World Health Organization.

61. A physician uses a stethoscope to listen to the heart of a young boy

Publication:: [August 11, 1970]
Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases -- prevention & control
Physical Examination
Physicians
Auscultation
Child
Singapore
World Health Organization.

62. Two mobile clinics move into the small town of Ristjärvi in eastern Finland. One contains labratory equipment and the other x-ray equipment

Author(s):: Farkas, Tibor, 1934- photographer
Publication:: [1955-1965?]
Subject(s):: Mobile Health Units
Laboratories
Diagnostic Equipment
Finland
World Health Organization.

63. [The hands of Professor Clarence Crafoord of Stockholm, a pioneer of modern heart surgery, are shown taking the pulse of a patient, of whom only a hand is shown]

Author(s):: Almasy, Paul, 1906-2003, photographer
Publication:: [1955-1965?]
Subject(s):: Pulse
Cardiovascular Diseases
Surgeons
Patients
Hand
Sweden
Crafoord, Clarence.
World Health Organization.

64. Many lives are being saved by this ambulance specially equipped to deal with severe heart attack cases in Northern Ireland. But prevention is better than cure; the risks stemming from high blood pressure can be considerably reduced by treatment, which can almost totally rule out heart failure and most strokes

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

65. Testing for skinfold thickness

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

66. Through an arm artery, a plastic catheter has been passed into the heart to reach a coronary artery. An injected opaque medium shows up on x-rays and enables the doctor to see the condition of the coronaries; picture 13150 shows close-up of x-rays screen

Subject(s):: Cardiovascular Diseases
Physicians
Health Personnel
X-Rays
Patients
Equipment and Supplies
World Health Organization

67. A young patient with rheumatic fever on the terrace of the Pyramid Clinic

Subject(s):: Nurses
Patients
World Health Organization

68. Residents of a Bombay suburb gather in the courtyard for a routine checkup during a community survey on high blood pressure

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

69. [Health education: smoking and hypertension]

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

70. A traditional midwife, the dia, makes her first delivery after being retrained in the fundamentals of safer childbirth. Meanwhile, a neighbour bangs on a tin tray in time-honoured fashion to make the baby cry

Subject(s):: Midwifery
Nurse Midwives
Parturition
World Health Organization

71. A frightened farmer carries his wife, stricken down with tetanus, to the People's Health Centre in Savar- a boldly pioneering complex that is bringing health care to the rural poor of Bangladesh

Subject(s):: Bangladesh
Tetanus
Women
World Health Organization

72. It is her first baby. The setting the preparations, the precautions against mishap maybe modern, but the great event lived by mother and child is essentially what is always has been

Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Infant, Newborn
Nurses
Parturition
Sweden
World Health Organization

73. A woman "paramedic" tests the tetanus case for serum hypersensitivity before starting the emergency treatment that will save her life

Subject(s):: Bangladesh
Emergency Medical Services
Health Personnel
Injections
Tetanus
Women
World Health Organization

74. One of the blood sampling techniques during an epidemiological survey in Togo

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

75. Education of untrained midwives in modern methods of delivery, sanitation, and hygiene

Subject(s):: Midwifery
Nurse Midwives
Infant, Newborn
Parturition
World Health Organization

76. Student medical auxiliaries during an anatomy lesson

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

77. ... concerned with the cause and prevention of malnutrition in children

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

78. ... functional façades bristle with bamboo rods hung with brightly coloured clean linen

Subject(s):: Public Health
World Health Organization

79. A "barefoot doctor" from the Hong Shi production brigade, in northern China checks on the health of a mother and her chil in their home. When there is a choice between ancient herbal remedies and "Western" ones, many patients prefer traditional medicine

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

80. Village health workers attending a course on primary health care in Torodi, Niger. The teacher is a qualified male nurse. The new emphasis on training primary health workers stems from the realization that simply providing more physicians and more nurses will not solve the health problems of devloping countries

Subject(s):: Health Personnel
Education, Medical
Teaching
Public Health
World Health Organization

81. Immunize and protect your child

Subject(s):: Public Health
Nurses
Child
World Health Organization

82. Prevention is essential to protect life and there is no substitute for vaccination and immunization

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

83. Epidemiological surveillance

Subject(s):: Health Personnel
Public Health

84. For these boys at an Indian school, early preventive treatment for incipient trachoma will probably safeguard their young eyesight for a whole lifetime

Subject(s):: Health Personnel
Health Promotion
Child
Public Health
World Health Organization

85. Under careful supervision, this Sudan schoolboy is treating his classmates' eyes for trachoma. This will ensure that treatment countinues after the trachoma control team leaves the district

Subject(s):: Health Personnel
Health Promotion
Child
Public Health
World Health Organization

86. This little boy is having an eye check-up which should ensure that any threat to his sight is recognized in time and prevented. Many thousands of less fortunate children go blind unnecessarily every year for want of simple precautions or low-cost treatment

Subject(s):: Health Personnel
Public Health
Child
World Health Organization

87. The silver screen flickers in the Indian night. Television can convey a particularly vivid health message, but most developing countries sets are rare outside the large towns

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

88. Cholera can thrive where poverty, overcrowding and primitive sanitation are found together, as in this Asian city

Subject(s):: Public Health
World Health Organization

89. An eye-test in the open air for villagers in a small Sudanese community

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

90. This photos, or rather composite of a series of photographs, shows isotopes revealing the inner geography of the body. Isotopes reorded in photographic form cna show where vitamins or medicines are distributed, or in come cases where blockage occurs. These photographs were taken by a scintillation camera

Subject(s):: World Health Organization

91. Radio-iodine test for thyroid in the Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine, Heidelberg

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

92. An injection of iodine 131 to observe concentration in the kidneys

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

93. Air nurses in the early days of aviation

Subject(s):: Clothing
Nurses
World Health Organization

94. Workers trained in antiradiation relief measures

Subject(s):: Protective Clothing
Stretchers
Transportation of Patients
World Health Organization

95. ... one of the first parachute nurses

Subject(s):: Aircraft
Nurses
World Health Organization

96. [A specially trained mountain rescue dog]

Subject(s):: Emergency Medical Services
First Aid
France
World Health Organization

97. A Japanese water-colour showing the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905

Subject(s):: Clothing
First Aid
Emergency Medical Services
Transportation of Patients
Military Medicine
Russian-Japanese War
World Health Organization.
Red Cross.

98. The first parachute nurses

Subject(s):: Clothing
Nurses
USSR
World Health Organization

99. Ancient and modern meet in Kazakhstan. A flying doctor service brings urgent medical care to rural populations whose home is the tradiaitonal nomas'd tent

Subject(s):: Aircraft
Emergency Medical Services
Health Personnel
World Health Organization

100. Cave rescue teams

Subject(s):: Emergency Medical Services
First Aid
Transportation of Patients
World Health Organization