This third article in World Health Forum--marking the fiftieth anniversary of the World Health Organization in 1998--briefly describes some of the wide range of activities carried out by or involving WHO from 1974 to 1988. This period covers Dr Halfdan T. Mahler's three terms as Director-General of the Organization and the appointment of Dr Hiroshi Nakajima, who succeeded him on 21 July 1988.
The information used to determine the subjects of health policy research takes the form of indicators obtained by data manipulation. Validation is the process whereby the ability of health indicators to measure what they are supposed to measure is determined. The author discusses ways of overcoming various limitations affecting the development of health indicators.
Artistic activities are widely used in mental health care for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The art produced in this process is often recognized as a valuable commodity in its own right, and this raises questions of ownership, self-determination, privacy, respect and psychic integrity.
The work of WHO's Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases since its inception in 1975 is outlined in the present article.
In its first issue in 1980 World Health Forum carried a Round Table on malaria for which Dr M.A. Farid wrote the lead article, reviewing malaria "eradication" between the 1950s and the 1970s. He now gives his personal impressions of those early days of working with WHO to Dr Eilif Liisberg and Dr Socrates Litsios.
Many men in Turkey are motivated to use contraception and to share responsibility for family planning with their wives. About half the couples practising family planning use male-dependent methods. Men commonly use traditional methods, predominantly withdrawal, and should be treated as a specific target group in family planning programmes in order to motivate them to use modern methods.
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