1161. 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 PersonnelPublic HealthChildWorld Health Organization
1162. Members of the trachoma control team examine an elderly patient in a rural area. Although trachoma is the principle cause of blindness here, many cases are also found of such ailments as cataract and glaucome. Some cases will respond to simple surgical treatment Subject(s): Health PersonnelPublic HealthWorld Health Organization.
1163. Control of the virus diseases transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti is an increasingly important problem. The mosquito is a vector of yellow fever but it also transmits hemorrhagic fever. A aegypti is the most "domesticated" of all mosquitoes- where man congregates, there this mosquito multiplies abundantly Subject(s): Public HealthChildWorld Health Organization
1164. An interviewer asks questions on the utilization of health services Subject(s): Public HealthHealth Education
1165. 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 HealthHealth EducationWorld Health Organization
1166. Cholera can thrive where poverty, overcrowding and primitive sanitation are found together, as in this Asian city Subject(s): Public HealthWorld Health Organization
1167. On the front line against Anopheles : a spray team sets out for the day's work Subject(s): MalariaWorld Health Organization
1168. An eye-test in the open air for villagers in a small Sudanese community Subject(s): Health PersonnelPublic HealthWorld Health Organization
1169. 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
1170. Radio-iodine test for thyroid in the Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine, Heidelberg Subject(s): Health PersonnelEquipment and SuppliesWorld Health Organization