WHO Technical Report

Obviously written against a broad background of experience and careful observation, this book relates a vast amount of current knowledge about children to the practical problems with which nurses are concerned. It comprises, essentially, a discussion of the behavior of children and parents; the psychological, physical, physiological, and social growth of children; the interpersonal relationships which exist between child, parent, and nurse; the feelings and attitudes of children and parents toward illness and hospitalization ; and the feelings and attitudes of the nurse in a number of situations. The text delineates the significant and unique contributions to mental health to be made by the nurse in her day-today activities. By helping her to new insights and a better understanding of children and parents, publications of this kind will increase the nurse's ability to see, to hear, and to feel what is going on around her, her understanding of what children are like at various ages, and her awareness of the questions and concerns which characterize each age period. We believe that this book will make a real contribution to nursing education and child care in this country. It may be read and reread with profit by all those who work with children and parents. This 30-page booklet contains a substantial amount of information about modern occupational health principles and practices as they apply throughout the world. It starts from the premise that: "Occupational health should aim at: the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental, and social well-being of workers in all occupations; the prevention among workers of departures from health caused by their working conditions; the protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health; the placing and maintenance of the worker in an occupational environment adapted to his physiological and psychological equipment and, to summarize: the adaptation of work to man and of each man to his job." There is discussion of: (1) Measures of general health protection of workers in places of employment (utilizing the latter as an avenue of approach to general health problems). (2) Notification of occupational diseases. (3) Organization of comprehensive health-service programmes in large and small plants, and in agricultural enterprises. (4) Methods of cooperation between public health and industrial health services and of implementation of existing industrial health legislation and standards. The report suggests substantial agreement among representatives of many countries as to basic …