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The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the environment in hospitals may play a significant role in the process of recovery from illness. As part of a nation-wide effort in Britain to bring art out the galleries and into public places, some of the country’s most talented artists have called in to transform older hospitals and to soften the hard edges of modern buildings. Of the 2 500 National health Service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have significant collections of contemporary art in corridors, waiting areas and treatment rooms. These recent initiatives owe a great deal to one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in north-eastern England. The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering form an illness. A study has shown that patients who had a view on to a garden needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at during the early 1970s. he felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience. A typical hospital waiting room might have as many as 5 000 visitors each week. What better place to hold regular exhibitions of art Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the out-patients’ waiting area of the Manchester royal Infirmary in 1975. Believed to be Britain’s first hospital-artist, Senior was so much in demand that he was soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates. The effect is striking. Instead of the familiar long, barren corridors and dull waiting rooms, the visitors experience a full view of fresh colours, playful images and restful courtyards. Peter Senior is ______.
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"Much of the sickness and death attributed to the major communicable diseases is in fact caused by malnutrition which makes the body less able to withstand infections when they strike," said Dr Hiroshi Nakajima, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). "At the same time," he added, "in developing countries today, malnutrition is the cause of 174 million children under five years of age being (51) , and 230 million being stunted(阻碍)in their growth. Such (52) represent deprivation, suffering and wasted human potential (53) a scale that is unacceptable from every point of view. Whether we think in (54) of humanitarian concern, common justice or development needs, they demand a (55) , both from national governments and from the international community." It is now (56) that 6.6 million out of the estimated 12.2 million deaths (57) among children under-five--or 54% of young child mortality in developing countries-is associated with malnutrition, In some (58) , such as sub-Saha-ran Africa and south Asia, stagnation(停滞)of nutritional improvement (59) with a rapid rise in population has resulted in an (60) increase in the total number of malnourished children. (61) , over two-thirds of the world’s malnourished children live in Asia (especially south Asia), followed by Africa and Latin America. As Dr Nakajima noted, "The globalization of industry, trade, travel and communication has brought (62) it unprecedented possibilities for mutual cooperation in (63) hunger and malnutrition. At the same time, however, the acceptability of certain foods, and the cultural aspects of their production, distribution and preparation, are now recognized as (64) in the promotion of good nutrition. Without the attention (65) them, little progress can be made towards household food security, appropriate diets, the control of micronutrient(微量元素)deficiencies, the promotion of breast-feeding, and other strategies listed in the Plan of Action adopted in 1992 (at the International Conference on Nutrition in Rome).\
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