[Epidemiological value of graphic representation of the Tukey test].

The method of Tukey shows a graphic view of a distribution of data around its median. This graphic representation is simple, easy, pertinent and computer-compatible. It optimizes the description of distribution of data (normal or free distribution).

[Current quantitative approach to the splenic index in malaria: the median hypertrophied spleen].

The mean Hackett score is a commonly used index in malaria surveys. It is, however not suitable for comparing the distribution of hypertrophied spleens among small population samples, owing to the validity conditions of statistical tests. The authors suggest to use another index, the median Hackett score, which can be compared to the Tukey test.

[Sexually transmitted diseases and community health services. II. Planning of the program].

The ambition of Community Health Services in the fight against Sexual Transmitted Diseases (S.T.D.

[Sexually transmitted diseases and community health services. I. Community diagnosis].

The ambition of Community Health Services in the fight against Sexual Transmitted Diseases (S.T.D.

[Setting-up a system of health statistics collection in a rural environment in the Ivory Coast].

In order to improve the sanitary data collection system from the rural Health Centers, Ivory-Coast has modified it in acting upon the three stages of collection. At the level of rural Health Centers, it has been created, from observations and data collected in a sample of 5 centers, a new classification of diseases including 128 items allowing all male and female nurses to classify 94% of the patients examined. At intermediary level, their monthly reports are collected and checked by the chief Medical Practitioner of the Rural Health Sector, who is responsible for all medicine not pertaining to hospital centers.

[The reaction to viewing slides on tropical medicine. Evaluation study].

A series of slides on health priorities in Africa was shown to an audience of 123 people, of which 19 were not medical specialists. The authors of this experiment wanted to verify that the objectives set by the producers were met. The study, conducted in the form of a questionnaire, asked the people questioned to give their opinion on the objectives, the kind of public aimed at, the standard of the various subjects covered and the usefulness and cost-efficiency ratio of the type of audio-visual equipment used.

[Training in epidemiology at the Institute of Tropical Medicine of the Army Health Service. Experience over 4 years].

The authors described the training in epidemiology received by 185 Army medical doctors attached for instruction to the I.M.T.

[Measles throughout the world].

Measles is described according to two different environmental conditions: in industrialized countries and in developing countries. In the first case, it is usually accepted as a benign disease and the parents feel its set back mainly because of the absenteeism it causes. In the developing countries, its frequency and its severity induce the public as well as the health service officers to accept the heavy cost of mass campaign vaccination.

[Epidemiologic surveillance in leprosy control programs].

Epidemiological surveillance of leprosy has to be very particular. As a matter of fact, leprosy is a long lasting disease which occurs for preference in developing countries where means of surveillance are said to be rudimentary and of poor reliability. Moreover initial stage of the disease is always undeterminated and its mean duration depends on clinical forms.

[Expanded vaccination program. Training model for community medicine].

The expanded programme on immunization (E.P.I.

[Various biological parameters in sub-clinical protein-calorie malnutrition in Ivory Coast children].

Protein malnutrition is the main aspect of infant pathology in the Third World. This review has been undertaken to find out some early biological indicators of nutritional deficiencies. The review, based on a sample of 1 317 children between 1 and 3 years old, has shown: --in asymptomatic protein malnutrition, hemoglobin, mean corpuscular hemoglobin, prealbumin and albumin all significantly decreased.

[Importance, distribution and main causes of accidents in 1980 in two rural health centers in Ivory Coast. Comparative study (author's transl)].

Everywhere, accidents have got some noteworthy consequential effects on socio-economical growth. In many developing countries, with agricultural economic background and still limited in their preventive and educational health action, the damage is able to impair their development, as much as malnutrition, infections and parasitic diseases. Carried out according to a precise methodology within a programme of research entitled: "Recueil de statistiques sanitaires et choix d'indicateurs de santé en Côte-d'Ivoire", this present study shows that most of usual accidents to children are caused by active or passive shocks, and adults injuries are due to handling sharp and penetrating tools.

[Anthropometric nutritional indices and food intake of a child population of South Ivory Coast (author's transl)].

The present study was carried out in order to determine new biochemical or immunological parameters which would be used to make an early diagnosis of protein-caloric malnutrition. For the first phase of the research, based on antropometrics (circumference of the arm, head, weight) and on the quantitative evaluation of daily nutritional food intake, three groups of children between the ages of 1 and 3 were selected according to the following criteria: -- Properly nourished children, -- Malnourished children without physical signs of malnutrition, -- Malnourished children with malnutrition signs. The description of these three groups using the forementioned indicators is reported.

[Selection of priorities in public health (author's transl)].

Identification of priorities is a major factor in an public health programme. We should avoid making a selection of priorities on a subjective basis, or basing a decision on temporary situations or the desire of influential personalities confusing personal interests with true priorities. The choice of priorities in health care must take into account two essential factors: 1) The impact of a disease on the population.

Simultaneous administration of live attenuated measles vaccine with DTP vaccine.

Live attenuated measles vaccine was administered to Cameroonian children 12 to 39 months of age alone or with either diphtheria-tetanus toxoids or diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis (DTP) vaccine. Among children who were initially seronegative for measles hemagglutination inhibition antibodies, seroconversion rates and postvaccination geometric mean titers were similar in all groups. Pertussis antigen in the DTP vaccine was judged to be potent by laboratory potency testing and serologic response in recipients of the vaccine.