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The award consists of a cash prize of US $5000. to be used for continuing these health edu- cation activities. and a commemorative plaque. Candidates for the award may be nominated by any national health education authority, a former recipient of the prize. or by any indi - vidual institution or non- governmental organization concerned with health edu - cation. However. the United Nations family of organiza- tions and members of their staff are not eligible for nomi- nation. Nominations must include the following information 1. name and address of the person(s) or institu - tion(s). 2. brief summary of the pri- mary health care project in which the health educa- tion activity is integrated. including the project's objectives. geographical coverage. target groups. duration of activities. per- sonnel involved. and monitoring and evaluation of efforts planned/ undertaken: 3 description of the health education activity being carried out as part of the primary health care pro - ject . which should emphasise the planning, implementation and evaluation phases. and highlight the innovative approaches being used and the impact of the edu - cation on people's behaviour. Only a health education activity still in progress will be considered for the award The education may pertain to any aspect of primary health care lt must be innovative in its planning and implemen- tation. as well as in the evalu - ation of the activity's impact on the health of the people concerned. A jury of international experts in the field of health education will select the reci - pient of the award Nominations for the 1989 award must reach WHO before 30 September 1 989 and be addressed to Division of Health Edu- cation and Health Pro - motion. World Health Organization. 1211 Gen- eva. 27 Switzerland. • Tobacco: Women at added risk The world's second No- Tobacco Day was celebrated on 31 May, the date on which it will henceforth be held every year This year's special target was the female smoker. with the slogan: "Women at added risk". Events of all kinds were organized in most countries of the world to mark the day As its instigator. WHO was no exception and several events took place in Geneva for the occasion. A round table brought together women from different professions - doctors. teachers. journalists - to discuss the problems related to tobacco and how to deal with them. The role that can be played by women as models within the family and as educators was parti- cularly emphasised. together with the importance of women's magazines. through their cigarette advertising or positively by the information they give their readers on the dangers of smoking - some- times the two in tandem . As is now the custom. Or Hiroshi Nakajima. the Director-General of WHO, awarded medals to some of the public figures and institu- tions which have played a prominent role in the cam- paign against smoking and have "defended the WHO ideal of a tobacco-free society" . Other medals - about 40 in all - were awarded simultaneously at other WHO offices around the world. The recipients from outside the health sector of medals for "acts deserving international recognition" ~ include sportsmen (Pele. the s Brazilian football star). air- E lines. journalists and enter- if tainment stars (Michael Falk. -=---==--~-:-:-:~----:-~~--------------- the Danish rock musician, The Soviet Minister of Health presents Or Nakajima with a set of surgical and the American actress. instruments made from recycled titanium Brooke Shields). Awards also 30 Women speak out on smoking. went to the only restaurant in Paris. Aux Deux Canards: where smoking is totally ban- ned: AI Azhar University of Cairo: and the Swiss super- market chain Migros. which has never sold cigarettes . • Sasakawa Health Prize ceremony in Tokyo Representatives of the ten winners of the Sasakawa Health Prize since the awards began five years ago came together in Tokyo in June for a ceremony as guests of 90- year-old Ryoich i Sasakawa A wealthy Japanese industrialist and benefactor. Mr Sasakawa initiated the awards. within the frame - work of the Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation. to reward outstanding inno - vative work in public health and to encourage the further development of that work. Each year. the US $100.000 prize is given - sometimes shared by more than one recipient - to a per- son. an institution or a non- governmental organization judged to have achieved not- able advances in the health field. particularly within the strategy for achieving WHO's goal of Health for all by the year 2000 through primary health care In a keynote address at the fifth anniversary ceremony in Tokyo, Dr Hiroshi Nakajima. Director-General of the World Health Organization. said: "There are very few rewards for the efforts and dedication of people working in public health . The Sasa- kawa Health Prize provides both incentive and recog- nition." The ten prize winners. who each received the award WORLD HEALTH, July 1989 0 I s 0 0 .<::: Q_ during the annual World Health Assemblies held in Geneva. are as follows: 1985: Or Jesus C. Azurin. a former Minister of Health of the Philippinnes. Or David Bersh Escobar. Director of Health for the Coffee-workers' Com- mittee in Colombia Sewa-Rural. a voluntary organization in Gujarat State. India. 1986: Or Pietro Corti and Or Lucille Teasdale Corti. who have worked for two decades at Lacor Hospital in Uganda Or Amorn Nondasuta. a former Permanent Secre- tary for Public Health in Thailand. The Ayadaw Township Committee. which has promoted and developed health activities among a wide network of villages in Burma. 1987: Sister Marie Joan Winch. Coordinator of Health Education Pro - grammes in the Aboriginal Medical Services of Western Australia. 1988: The Indonesian Family Welfare Movement. a community-based volunteer organization set up in 1967 in Central Java. Dr Christian Aurenche. a French physician working in Northern Cameroon. 1989: Or N iu Dongping. Director of the Yuncheng Stomatological Hospital in Shanxi Province. China. • WHO Education for Health Prize Nuclear rockets turned into medical instruments At the Forty-second World Health Assembly which was held in Geneva in May. Pro - fessor Evgenyi Chazov. the Soviet Union 's Minister of Health. announced that his government intended to double the health budget as from 1991. thanks to the savings resulting from reduced military spending. To illustrate his point. he pre- sented Dr Hiroshi Nakajima. Director-General of WHO. with a set of surgical instru- ments manufactured with titanium recovered from one of the Soviet nuclear rockets that were recently destroyed. as a symbol. he said. "of the victory of life over death " • WORLD HEALTH, July 1989 Nevvsbriefs * Nursing development. The College of Nursing of the Universitv of the Philippines has just been designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Development in Pri- marv Health Care. At the inauguration of this new centre. Or Sang Tae Han. WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific. pointed out that the global network of collaborating centres for nursing development was still verv new. its first general meeting having been held in 7 988 in Maribor. Yugoslavia The second general meeting is scheduled for August in Copenhagen. Distinction for Dr Nakajima. At a WHO forum on "Oualitv of life in the elderlv" held recentlv in Kvoto. Japan. Or Hiroshi Nakajima. Director-General of WHO. was presented with the "Fourth International Award for Research on Adult Diseases . .. Established in 7 985 bv Or Kozo Okamoto. Pro - fessor Emeritus of Kvoto Universitv and Member of the Japan Academv. this award has been given to Or Nakajima for his contribution to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. The three previous recipients of the award were Or Bjorn Folkow. Or Michael Brody and Or Waiter Lovenberg. Appointment. Mrs lngar Bruggemann has been appointed Director of the WHO Liaison Office with the United Nations. New York. She succeeds Or Gururaj Mutalik. who retired from the Organization on 37 Mav 7 989 after 7 2 vears of service. Votre foie vous remerciera si un jour par semaine, vous ne buvez pas! ~~~~~ Above: Never on a Mon- day! says the wily bird. He adds: "Your liver will thank you if one day of the week you don't drink alcohol." Right: Under the heading "Keep straight on the road," the ostrich tells the habitual drinker: "No thanks. I'm driving!" * Alcohol abuse. The Swiss Institute for the Pre - vention of Alcoholism. in Lausanne. has just launched a series of amusing cartoons in which a wise ostrich delivers a number of mes- sages against alcohol abuse. The effectiveness of this tvpe of communication has been broadlv confirmed in manv countries of the world. • Non merci, je conduis! ~~)'>~"'-' In the next issue "lnformatics." the new science of computer-borne information. has infiltrated all aspects of modern living to a remarkable degree. The health sector cannot ignore these new developments: on the contrary. it should exploit the possibilities that informatics can open up. This is the theme that underlies the August-September issue of World Health. If you would like to obtain the catalogue of WHO publications, or receive sample copies of other WHO periodicals which you want to evaluate be- fore placing a sub- scription, please con- tact: World Health Organization, Dis- tribution and Sales, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland BACK COVER Nurses in training in Ubyan Amb Jamahiriya. Photo WHO/J. Mohr WORLD HEALTH for readers everywhere Since the start of 1989. two-year and three-year subscriptions are no longer being offered. 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