World Health Organization: Picturing Health for All

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A Healthier World

Outside, a physician weighs a child seated on a scale.

A scientist at a WHO-funded research institute studying childhood malnutrition in Congo-Léopoldville (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), photograph by Paul Almasy, 1960

A woman holds a child getting a shot on the upper left arm.

A nurse giving the tuberculosis vaccine during a Philippine vaccination program that had WHO technical assistance, photograph by Eric Schwab, 1952

A woman stands and points to an eye chart while a person stands in the foreground taking the test.

People taking an eye exam in Sudan before receiving affordable glasses through a WHO program, photograph by Didier Henrioud, 1981

A smiling young boy wearing leg braces and using crutches.

WHO is the International Agency for Health poster, photograph by Dominique Darbois, 1958

Two small vials set on two among several small boxes laying on a surface.

Snake antivenom produced in Congo-Brazzaville (now Republic of the Congo), which WHO sends to areas of Africa and Asia, photograph by Didier Henrioud, 1962

Inspiring Well-Being

A woman observes a man seated to her right as he holds a card pointing to an image.

Dr. Tsung-yi Lin (center) interviewing and administering a psychological test to an adolescent in Taiwan, pictured to raise awareness of mental health and illness for World Health Day, photograph by Eric Schwab, 1959

A woman stands and leans toward a seated smiling girl who is touching the woman’s right cheek.

A blind and deaf Chinese girl learning spoken English by feeling the movements of her teacher’s tongue and lips, pictured in relation to the World Health Day theme of preventable blindness, photograph by J. Morgenstern, 1962

A woman leans toward a tall glass instrument on a laboratory desk.

A scientist researching the link between schistosomiasis and bladder cancer at Cairo University in Egypt, presented in relation to the World Health Day theme of early cancer detection, photograph by Didier Henrioud, 1970

Interior view of a restaurant with a sign posted stating section: Reserved For Non-Smokers.

A smoke-free public space in Switzerland, shown in accordance with the World Health Day focus on the dangers of smoking, photographer unknown, 1980

Health Services

Outside, several women stand laughing.

Women receiving care under the National Leprosy Control Program (1952-present) in Burma (now Myanmar), a government effort aided by the WHO, photograph by Ernst Scheidegger, 1958

Outside, a woman in nurse’s uniform smiles while holding a child standing on her left palm.

A recent graduate of a WHO-assisted, village nurse-midwife training program in Afghanistan, photograph by Homer Page, 1960

Several men are gathered in a room; one of the men is standing at a chalkboard with the instructor.

Village health workers in Niger learning about primary health care as part of a WHO effort, photograph by R. da Silva, 1977

A boy puts eye drops on another boy first in line while two men look over them.

A Sudanese schoolboy learning to administer medicine from a WHO-supported trachoma control team, photograph by Didier Henrioud, 1976

Fighting Epidemics

In front of a classroom, two women stand facing seated students as one points to a chart and the other stands on the side.

A Vietnamese public health nurse educating children before vaccination as part of WHO’s Smallpox Eradication Program, photograph by Jose Abcede, 1975

A Nigerian boy cured of yaws after receiving treatment through the Global Yaws Eradication Program, photograph by Eric Schwab, 1956

Seated man looks into a microscope

A researcher in Lomé, Togo studying malaria during the Global Malaria Eradication Program, photograph by Chevalier, 1968

A man holds a spraying tool against an exterior wall, while two youths stand near.

A health worker in India spraying insecticide to kill mosquitoes that carry malaria, photograph by Eric Schwab, 1958

Maternal Care

Three women seated around another laying on her side.

In India, a traditional midwife, or “dai,” delivering her first baby after WHO training, photograph by Eric Schwab, 1958

A woman lays in bed in the background; two woman sits across and over the matt they placed for an infant and supplies.

Midwives practicing postnatal care during a WHO-assisted training program launched by the Philippine government, photograph by Dale Whitney, 1965

A woman instructor stands facing several men with books seated by desks in a classroom.

Ethiopian medical assistants learning midwifery techniques from a WHO mother and child adviser, photograph by Eric Schwab, 1961

Three women in traditional Yemeni costume study images placed on a wall.

Yemeni nurse trainees taking a weekly midwifery class, photograph by J. Simon, 1960

In a room, a seated woman holds a baby in a bundle hanging from a handheld scale while several other women surround and observe her.

Nurse-midwives at a Southeast Asian training center practicing weighing a newborn, 1978

Waterborne Disease

Outside, a man stands with his right palm open as another man holds a small bottle tilted over the palm.

Field workers in the Philippines washing their hands after collecting snails for WHO research into schistosomiasis, photograph by Dr. Pesigan, 1954

A large group of uniformed children are gathered around a health educator at a youth health club.

Brazilian schoolchildren learning about prevention as part of a national schistosomiasis control program assisted by the WHO, photograph by Eric Schwab, 1956

A woman shows water level in a bottle to fill as another woman looks on holding a crying baby.

A Filipina mother learning to prepare a solution from WHO-distributed salt packets, to prevent severe dehydration from diarrhea, photograph by Jose Abcede, 1980

A nurse stands and gives an injection to a seated boy’s upper left arm as others look seated in the background.

A boy receiving a cholera vaccine supplied by the WHO during an outbreak in the Gilbert Islands, photograph by Tin Maung Maung, 1979

In a laboratory classroom, a man lectures to several who are seated.

Nigerian microbiologists studying variants of cholera bacteria with a WHO lecturer, photograph by Jose Abcede, 1970

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