Health promotion and health education: theory and practice.

Background: Since health promotion and health education are developing concepts around the world, the purpose of this paper was to compare theory and practice, at certain point in time in various countries.

Methods: Data were collected using the structured direct interview. We approached 16 participants at the XVI World Conference on Health Promotion and Education.

[Masters of obstetrics in the area of Vojvodina in the 18th and 19th century].

The author reviews data about masters of obstetrics, physicians and surgeons nonphysicians, who worked in Vojvodina from the second half of the 18th till the beginning of the 20th century. They used to be the professional and time bridge as well as extremely important developmental link of continuity between the obstetrics of untrained and subsequently educated midwives and physicians gyneco--surgeons, later specialists gynecologists--obstetricians all as a part of integral discipline of gynecology and obstetrics in the area of Vojvodina. The existence of about 30 masters of obstetrics in the area of today's Vojvodina from the 18th to the 20th century, educated at medical faculties of Vienna, Budapest and Graz, points to the fact that obstetrics and gynecology in our regions in the 18th and especially 19th and 20th centuries, used to have similar, and somewhere identical trends and directions of development, like the obstetrics and gynecology of Central Europe of that time and that it used to be, just like it is today, a part of European gynecology and obstetrics.

[Inhibition of initial puerperal and postabortion lactation using oral prostaglandin E2 (Dinoprostone)].

Authors present their experience in oral administration of Prostaglandin E2 (Dinoproston, Upjohn) during postpartal and postabortal period (à 0.5 mg after legal pregnancy interruption) in suppression of lactation. Indications for postpartal lactation suppression were such as: stillbirth, postpartal neonatal death and maternal negative attitude towards breast feeding.

[Malignant ovarian tumors in childhood and adolescence in Novi Sad (1946-1989)].

In the period from 1946-1989, at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics University of Novi Sad, 79 ovarian tumors in children and adolescents were registered. There were 10 (12.6%) malignant tumours.

[Evaluation of short-term exposure to a polyacrylonitrile cervical dilator in preabortion preparation of the uterine cervix in adolescent girls].

Authors investigated possibilities of application of polyacryl-nitrile cervical dilators PCD-Dilapan in preabortion preparation of the cervix during the first trimester of pregnancy in 39 adolescent patients. Control of the achieved degree of cervical dilatation was performed by largest No Hegar dilator which did not show resistance during insertion. The control group comprised 35 adolescent patients in whom cervical dilatation was performed only by Hegar dilators till optimal dilatation for vacuum aspiration was achieved.

[Injuries of the genital organs in young girls and adolescents (1959-1988)].

In the 30-year period from 1959 to 1988, there were 112 young and adolescent girls admitted and treated at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Novi Sad, i.e. 3-4 per year.

[Dr. Lazar Nenadović, gynecologist-obstetrician and founder of balneology and physical medicine in Serbia].

Prof. Dr. Lazar-Laza Nenadović specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology (Modos, 1870--Beograd, 1939), the founder of advanced physical medicine and balneo-climatology in Serbia.

[Problems in primary and secondary selection of personnel for scientific research].

The author presents his own observations and reflections about the problems which appear with primary and secondary selection and election, in other words, with the selection, election and reelection of candidates, meaning personnel for scientific-research work at institutes and clinics of medical faculties in our country. He is in favor of the introduction of unique, agreed on, scientific and professional criteria, and with that, their strict obeying, without the influence of para-scientific factors, with the elimination of the attempts of such negative occurrences and attempted activities. In the process of secondary selection (reelection) the author recommends the strict obedience of principles of expertly proven scientific and professional qualities of the candidate, with giving priority and propulsive direction to the young, contemporarily educated and efficient workers in scientific research, and the principled elimination from institutes and clinics of such people which have not, up to now, actually proven themselves in the scientific and professional field.

[Intrauterine extraction of intrauterine devices using the BMK-2 extractor of our design].

The so-called "lost" IUD's cannot be removed by common vaginocervical traction. The author extracts them by the intrauterine BMK-extractor (Instrumntalia, Zagreb) of his own construction. There were 150 extractions with no complication, performed by the use of the BMK-2 extractor in period from August 1, 1985 to December 31, 1988.

Incidence of infertility of immune origin in a group of marriages with unexplained infertility.

This study was designed to estimate the incidence of infertility of immune origin in a group of 102 married couples with unexplained infertility, out of a total of 1346 couples being treated for infertility. The tests included microagglutination of spermatozoa, microzone sera immunoelectrophoresis and sera immunodiffusion methods. In this group the sera of 23 (22.

[The Allen-Masters syndrome].

The authors present 18 cases of the Allen-Masters syndrome diagnosed from 1978 to 1985. The pelvic peritoneal defect was diagnosed by laparoscopy in 15 cases, by laparotomy in 3 cases. There was some doubt about the presence of the syndrome in 4 cases.