General Practitioner and the World Health Organisation.

Liberalisation, health and the World Trade Organisation.

The contemporary globalisation project of which Baum writes rests on the promise that economic growth benefits all. Originally enforced through Structural Adjustment Programs’ trinity of privatisation, reduced public spending and increased trade liberalisation, it is the benefits of the latter that now dominate the “globalisation is good” argument. So dominant is this claim that it deserves clo...

The general practitioner and community health education.

1 World Health Organization Organisation

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World Health Organization Organisation Mondiale

The proposed plan consists of three parts: (1) a programme for the promotion of community water fluoridation and other approved methods for the prevention of dental caries; (2) a plan for coordinated study and research into the etiology and prevention of dental caries and related problems; and (3) a plan for an information gathering and dissemination system which is expected to link the prevent...

Mental Health Guides for the General Practitioner

The recent lists of specialists published by the Ministry of Health seem to have abolished the psychiatrist and substituted the term "mental health specialist". This is all to the good, but the status given to them by their medical colleagues who distribute merit awards places them at the bottom of the list, while at the top are the neurologists, to whom patients go suffering from "nerves", bec...