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Education for world understanding is a program of
seminars and study abroad, financed by grants and
designed to improve foreign language teaching and area
studies programs. In 1965, U.S. high school teachers
and university professors attended such sessions in India,
Pakistan, Poland, Yugoslavia, and the United Arab
Republic.
Social Welfare and Maternal and Child Health
Many of the problems that beset our society are
common to other parts of thL world, among them illnesses
of the newborn, congenital defects, chronic dependency,
and other physical and social handicaps. Funds are
made available under section 104(k) for research proiects
to increase the worldwide pool of knowledge in
this area.
Since the beginning of the program approximately
$1.5 million equivalent has been obligated in foreign
currencies to fund 36 projects in 7 countries.
The following are examples of work undertaken:
Phenylketonuria (PKU).-This condition of the newborn
causes mental retardation if untreated. Research is
going forward on detection techniques in Israel, Pakistan,
Poland, and Yugoslavia. Studies will be carried further
at a Seminar on Inborn Errors of Metabolism to be held
in Yugoslavia in June 1966.
Toxemia of Pregnancy-Thiscondition is under study in
Israel and Poland and is to be integrated with later
studies on infant mortality.
Problems of the Aged.-This social welfare research is
under way in Israel and Poland.
Chronic Dependency.-Two projects in Israel provide
new clues for providing social services.
Juvenile Delinqency.-Comparative experiments such
as one underway in Egypt contribute to an understanding
of problems in the United States.
Medical and Health Research
In fiscal year 1966, $5 million was appropriated to
purchase Public Law 480-generated foreign currencies
for cooperative research in community, environmental,
and personal health problems and for the translation and
dissemination of scientific literature. This brings to
$25.5 million the amount spent for this activity since the
beginning of the program in 1960.
Community tlealth.-Underagreements reached in 1965,
new research projects were begun in the United Arab
Republic (dental care for children), Israel (mental
retardation and dental services aniong others), and
Poland (immunology of tuberculosis, studies of trichinosis,
encephalitis, staph infections, and food poisoning).
The Department plans on extending work in India
(oral cancer, rheumatic fever, and family planning) and
in Israel (kidney diseases, insecticides, and water pollntion)
as soon as new agreements are negotiated.
Environmental Health.--In addition to the ongoing projects
in Israel, Poland, and Yugoslavia, new research began
in 1965 into physiological effects of desert climates
(Israel), various drugs and their effect oin the body and
respiratory-tract diseases of cotton industry workers
(Yugoslavia).
lealth Statistics.- -The areas of the most rapid poptilation
growth have the least information on the dimensions
of their problem. To remedy this, the National
Center for Health Statistics is supporting projects in
Pakistan, the United Arab Republic, and India to develop
improved ways of masuring population change,
and birth fertility and death rates.
Other studies relating to health statistics are being
made in Yugoslavia (medical care utilization and inpact
studies in recently urbanized populations) and
Poland (chronic respiratory disease related to air pollution).
National Institutes of Health.---These programis support
biomedical research of mutual interest to the participating
foreign country and to the United States.
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