A course has been established in Switzerland which helps women refugees to defend the health of themselves and their families. A major effort is made to meet their linguistic needs and to achieve cultural acceptability.
A course has been established in Switzerland which helps women refugees to defend the health of themselves and their families. A major effort is made to meet their linguistic needs and to achieve cultural acceptability.
One of the goals of Sierra Leone's primary care programme, established in the 1980s, was to reduce maternal mortality by 30% by the end of the twentieth century, but no significant progress has been made in this direction. The reasons are examined below in the light of a study conducted in one of the country's Chiefdoms.
The students and faculty of the Aga Khan University School of Nursing, working in collaboration with other groups and organizations, have made a considerable contribution to Pakistan's polio immunization programme in the area of District Council West and Malir, Karachi. Recommendations for improving the programme are presented on the basis of the experience gained.
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the World Health Organization in 1998, World Health Forum briefly reviews the early years of the Organization and highlights some of the wide range of activities carried out or promoted by WHO during the last 50 years. This article describes the founding of the Organization and gives examples of WHO's work until 1960.