WHO60 photo exhibition: public health over the past 60 years.http://www.who.int/features/history/en/index.html As part of the 60th anniversary celebrations
Celebrations are a chocolate collection made by Mars, Incorporated comprising miniature versions of favorite Mars-produced bars. of WHO, a photo collection spanning the 60 years of WHO will be exhibited around the world in 2008. The exhibit, based on the anniversary theme of "Our health, our future," tells the story of WHO and public health over the last 60 years. It features key public health milestones including, but not limited to: the development of the first successful polio vaccine Two polio vaccines are used throughout the world to combat polio. The first was developed by Jonas Salk, first tested in 1952, and announced to the world by Salk on April 12, 1955. It consists of an injected dose of inactivated (dead) poliovirus. , the eradication eradication extermination of an infectious agent so that no further cases of the related disease can occur. virtual eradication of smallpox smallpox, acute, highly contagious disease causing a high fever and successive stages of severe skin eruptions. The disease dates from the time of ancient Egypt or before. , primary health care, tobacco control, and the revision of the International Health Regulations. The exhibit also looks to the future and covers themes such as protecting health from climate change, the future of primary health care, and the use of information and communication technologies for better health outcomes. The exhibit opened at the start of the WHO Executive Board's 122nd session on January January: see month. 21, 2008. Visit http://www.who.int/features/history/en/index.html to see photos from the exhibit. |
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