Women's health clinics.

A major challenge in the latter half of the 20th century is to make the benefits of medical advances available to those most in need of them. Papanicolaou screening for cervical cancer can best benefit the masses by making it a part of the comprehensive primary health care service offered by district clinics. The clientele, services offered, staff training, logistics (particularly with regard to laboratory support) and medical supervision of such a proposed service are considered.

Putting community health into perspective.

The concept of community health is poorly understood by the average clinician. Community health is characterized by the unique emphasis of looking at disease in the community rather than in the individual. Its field ranges from the running of hospitals and health departments to the coordination and guidance of the whole medical profession. In addition to their basic patient-centred approach all doctors need to develop a complementary community-orientated perspective.

Congenital absence of the vagina and associated defects. Report of 5 cases.

Five cases of congenital absence of the vagina are presented. A discussion of the anatomical and clinical features follows and the reconstructive surgical techniques are briefly described.