As the World Summit for Children ended here tonight, diplomats and public-health experts were asking whether the conference would produce tangible benefits for children, as its sponsors hoped.

But some economists and public-health experts regard the surge in health-care jobs warily.

We will need driver-translators, office people, water and sanitation specialists, public-health experts, civil engineers and medical staff.

A hospital is considered full when patients occupy about 85 percent of its beds, public-health experts say.

No one else became ill, and many public-health experts believed that the slaughter in Hong Kong had prevented a horrifying epidemic.

But public-health experts maintain that a mass vaccination program is unwise.

Diplomats and public-health experts expressed mixed feelings about whether the World Summit for Children would produce results.

The distribution obstacles might have seemed insuperable except for a fact that struck some public-health experts visiting rural clinics.

The West Nile virus (WNV) epidemic is growing as it continues its march westwards across the US, public-health experts announced this week.

The panel, which included doctors, researchers and public-health experts, calculated that for every $1 spent by the Government to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, $43 is spent on treatment and other costs.