World Health 1995 - Abstracts

World Health 1995
TitleSubjectAuthors
Aging well! (the risk of disability in old age can be reduced)HealthAlexandre Kalache
AIDS: a glance back, a look forward.HealthSuzanne Cherney
AIDS: mother to child.HealthDavid L. Heymann
Alcohol and economic change. (alcoholism in Central and Eastern Europe)HealthPeter Anderson
Alcohol and social change. (alcoholism in Africa)(includes related article)HealthVanna Beckman
Alcohol problems in Russia.HealthAlexander V. Nemstov, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov
An African example. (alcoholism in Zimbabwe)HealthS.W. Acuda
A template for the world. (Pan American Health Organization succeeds in eradicating poliomyelitis from American continent)(includes sidebar)HealthCiro A. de Quadros
A tobacco-advertising-free world by the year 2000?HealthJudith MacKay
Bosnia and Herzegovina.(health effects of war in former Yugoslavia)HealthManuel Carballo, Arif Smajkic
Cerebral palsy. (equipping children to live full lives)HealthAdriano Ferrari
Childhood blindness.(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthAllen Foster, Clare Gilbert
Children's hearing endangered. (chronic suppurative otitis media - CSOM - is the most common cause of mild to moderate hearing impairment among the young)(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthAndrew W. Smith, Juanita Hatcher, Ian Mackenzie
Cocaine use: the largest global study ever undertaken. (World Health Organization and United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute study)Health 
Community-based rehabilitation. (CBR)(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthTambo Camara
Community-based treatment. (substance abuse treatment camps in India)HealthJohn Howard
Costs and savings. (importance of continuing poliomyelitis immunization campaigns until disease is eradicated globally)HealthDavid M. Salisbury
Courage in adversity. (overcoming limitations brought about by polio)HealthJune Goodfield
Disability prevention and rehabilitation.(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthAnn Goerdt
Dispelling the myths. (World Health Organization's Programme on Substance Abuse)HealthHans Emblad
Drug injection. (includes related article)HealthGerry Stimson
Drugs and sports. (World Health Organization's drug abuse prevention project)HealthJerri Husch
Drugs and the law. (impact of laws on substance abuse treatment)HealthWilliam J. Curran, W. Lane Porter
Egypt tackles polio. (Egypt's Expanded Program on Immunization)HealthEsmat Mansour
Equal opportunities. (The United Nation' rules on equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities can be a model for all agencies)(Citizens With Disabilities)(Editorial)HealthBengt Lindqvist
Ethics in health: some current perspectives. (includes related article)HealthSev S. Fluss
Facts, figures and estimates about substance abuse.Health 
Female circumcision.HealthHamid Rushwan
Health begins in the family. (interview with World Health Organization Director General Hiroshi Nakajima)(Interview)Health 
Health needs of migrants.HealthPaola Bollini, Harald Siem
Helping refugees to stay healthy.HealthAnn Avery
High tech at low cost. (computerized tomography and magnetic resonance imaging equipment)Healthpeter E. Peters, Horst Lenzen
Home care in Denmark.HealthSlim Allagui
How safe is a blood transfusion?HealthS.M. Lewis
Imagine victory over tuberculosis.HealthChristy Hanson
Improve our health, improve the world. (women's health)HealthAleya El Bindari Hammad
Improving health through schools. (includes related articles)HealthJack Jones, Ilona Kickbusch, Desmond O'Byrne
Indigenous peoples and substance abuse. (World Health Organization's Indigenous Peoples and Substance Use project)HealthAndrew Ball
Infections old and new.HealthJames W. LeDuc
Intellectual disability. (this group is becoming more active in seeing that its members needs are met)(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthPeter Mittler
International action against deafness. (primary ear care)(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthYash Pal Kapur
International Centre for Migration and Health.HealthManuel Carballo
Invisible agents for change. (sustainable development)HealthPerdita Huston
Landmines: dragon's teeth. (cause injury and death in the world)(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthAlessandro Loretti
Let us join forces.(health services to refugees)HealthMohamed W. Dualeh
Live better - live longer.HealthNikolai P. Napalkov
Living with disability. (Impairments in one country may be seen as a challenge to overcome in another country)(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthVolker Krause
Malaria: hope for the future.HealthAnatoli V. Kondrachine, Peter Trigg
Mammography: a woman's perspective.HealthCari Borras
Medical imaging in modern medicine. (includes related article)HealthLenny K.A. Tan
Mental health: choice and dignity.(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthJudi Chamberlin
Mental health in China.(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthYanfang Chen
Migrants are vulnerable.(migrants and HIV/AIDS prevention programs)HealthMary Haour-Knipe
Migration and aging.HealthAlexandre Kalache
"Miss, we cannot read or write." (traditional birth attendant training in Nepal)HealthMaureen Minden
Mongolia's national drug policy.HealthDashdavaa Bolormaa
Morocco's friendly association. (The Friends of the Handicapped)(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthNejla Essaafi
Multidisciplinary research for health.HealthBoutros G. Mansourian, Bruce McA. Sayers
Networking child health.(Children's Health Fund)HealthZeil Rosenberg, Irwin Redlener
New hope for Tupiza. (Tupiza, Bolivia)HealthMirta Roses Periago
Nomads in the Horn of Africa.(traditional health care)HealthMayeh Abu Omar, Maymuna Muhiddin Omar
No pain, no gain. (Philippines holds National Immunization Day)HealthJuan M. Flavier
Nuclear medicine.HealthYasuhito Sasaki, Kiyoko Kusakabe
Nursing in the years to come.HealthMargretta Madden Styles
Paying the price for one's beliefs. (vaccine-refusing religious communities)HealthPaul Oostvogel
People on the move.(health system of the Woodaabe nomads of West Africa)HealthSani Aliou
Pregnancy and malaria.HealthBernard J. Brabin
Preventing diabetes.HealthHilary King
Preventing nutritional blindness. (vitamin A deficiency)(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthKeith P. West
Preventing stress among refugees.HealthJoop T.V.M. de Jong
Prostheses and orthoses in developing countries.(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthAnders Eklund
Protection against radiation in medicine. (includes related article)HealthCesar F. Arias, Jorge J. Skvarca
Quality assurance in radiotherapy.HealthHans Svensson, Bjorn Zackrisson
Radiology: a century of progress.HealthOtha W. Linton, Joseph Marasco
Radiology in the next hundred years.HealthAlexander R. Margulis
Radiotherapy: still young after almost a hundred years. (includes related article)HealthJean-Claude Horiot, Suzanne Naudy
Reaching the hard-to-reach. (national immunization campaign in Bulgaria halts poliomyelitis epidemic among gypsy communities)HealthStanislava Popova
Refugee families.(includes information on migration phases and reproductive health problems)HealthCarol Djeddah
Refugees: a challenge to humanity.(Editorial)HealthSadako Ogata
Regulatory control and the rational use of drugs. (international drug control treaties)HealthTokuo Yoshida
Rehabilitating children with polio. (includes sidebar on deformity prevention)HealthAnn Goerdt
Removing the glamour. (preventing drug abuse)HealthDiyanath Samarasinghe
Rotary's PolioPlus. (Rotary International's PolioPlus Program)HealthCary Silver
Safeguards that prevent disabilities. (includes a related article on the question of ethics and health)(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthPierre Maurice
Safe motherhood in Tanzania.(WHO Interview)Health 
Smoking in the Third World.HealthSherif Omar
Social cost of maternal deaths. (Thailand)HealthOratai Rauyajin, Bencha Yoddumnern-Attig
Special AIDS threat to women.HealthRosmarie Erben
Street children. (substance abuse)(includes related article)HealthDonald C. Kaminsky
Street girls and substance use. (Latin America)HealthKathia M. Butron
Substance abuse is a health issue.Health 
Supervising TB treatment.(tuberculosis treatment for transient people)HealthCourtenay Singer
Supplying the vaccine. (WHO and UNICEF explore new procurement strategies for poliomyelitis vaccine)HealthDavid Halliday, Julie Milstien
Target 2000. (World Health Assembly's Polio Eradication Initiative)(includes related article)HealthHarry Hull, Nicholas Ward
Thailand's battle against nutritional blindness.(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthVallop Thaineua, Emorn Wasantwisut, George A. Attig
The basics of diagnostic imaging. (includes related articles)HealthPhilip E.S. Palmer, Thure Holm
The discovery of radioactivity.HealthMaurice Tubiana
The ethics of new technology. (medical imaging)HealthSneh Bhargava
The fall-out from Chernobyl.HealthAnatoly F. Tsyb, Victor M. Ponomarenko, Guntis Ozolins
The family - at the heart of health and human development.HealthTomris Turmen
The key to child survival. (BUNSO; national coalition to promote and protect the health and rights of mothers in the Philippines)HealthAdelpha S. Mabulay, Vida Subingsubing
The legacy of leprosy.(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthDenis Daumerie
The Netherlands scene.(health care for refugees)HealthLoes van Willigen
The plight of the long-term refugee.HealthJoseph A. Hazbun
The quest for a vaccine. (history of poliomyelitis vaccines)HealthFred Robbins
The role of women. (role in preventing poliomyelitis)HealthKhadija A. Msambichaka
Towards a rational drug policy. (Zimbabwe)(includes related article)HealthAidan Chidarikire
Towards a world without polio. (global efforts to eradicate poliomyelitis)Health 
Tracking the virus. (WHO establishes virology laboratories for poliovirus surveillance)HealthBarbara Hull
Ultrasound imaging in developing countries.HealthHassen A. Gharbi, M.W. Wachira
What are the Abilympics? (fourth international competition for disabled people to show occupational skills, leisure skills and artistic demonstrations)(Citizens With Disabilities)HealthHarry S.Y. Fang
What do women want? (contraceptive use)HealthT.K. Sundari Ravindran
WHO and radiation medicine. (World Health Organization)HealthGerald Hanson, Vladimir Volodin
WHO's new vaccines program. (WHO's Global Program on Vaccines Immunization)HealthLee Jong-Wook
Woman's action for health development. (Indonesia)(Community Action)HealthKardinah Soepardjo Roestam
Women and substance abuse.HealthPia Bergendahl, Lee-Nah Hsu
Women and tobacco.HealthAmanda Amos, Claire Chollat-Traquet
Women and water. (Botswana)HealthMayling Simpson-Hebert
Women, sexuality and AIDS in Brazil. (includes related article)HealthMaria Jose Oliveira Araujo, C. Simone Grilo Diniz
Young tobacco users. (tobacco use in India)HealthS.G. Vaidya
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