Some Activities of the Public Health Service at Vinh Binh
A landscape photo-story in Vietnamese and Khmer shows the Vinh Binh provincial health service at work: a health officer explaining a sanitation plan to a seated audience at Cho Da-Loc, a lecture on cholera, a clinic with mothers and infants, and injections for patients. Each caption is paralleled in Khmer script. The tell is the sequence of ordinary clinic scenes, which stand for government care without reference to the war.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese Chieu Hoi programme
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Theme
- Health
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese Chieu Hoi programme. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-7-986.
Text on the object
HOẠT ĐỘNG CỦA TY Y-TẾ TỈNH VĨNH-BÌNH [Khmer-language headline and parallel Khmer captions, not transcribed] Ông huấn sự Y-Tế giải thích về kế hoạch Công tác vệ sinh và Y-Tế tại ấp Chợ Xã Đa-Lộc quận Châu-Thành (Vĩnh-Bình). Sau khi giải thích về kế hoạch công tác vệ sinh và y-tế, ông huấn sự Y-Tế còn trình bày và nói rõ nguyên nhân và cách để phòng bệnh dịch tả. Sau khi khám bệnh, đồng bào được y-tá hay cô đỡ nông thôn chích thuốc. Tại các trạm Y-Tế bảo sanh, sức khoẻ của đồng bào cũng như các hài nhi luôn luôn được các y-tá khám bệnh và săn sóc kỹ càng. SP-986
ACTIVITIES OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE OF VINH-BINH PROVINCE [Khmer headline and captions, not translated] A Public Health instructor explains the plan for sanitation and public health work in Cho hamlet, Da-Loc village, Chau-Thanh District (Vinh-Binh). After explaining the plan for sanitation and public health work, the Public Health instructor also presented and explained clearly the causes and ways of preventing cholera. After the examination, the people are given injections by a nurse or a rural midwife. At the maternity and health stations, the health of the people and of infants is always examined and carefully cared for by nurses. SP-986
'Ông huấn sự Y-Tế' is rendered 'a Public Health instructor' as the best literal fit. The sign visible in the clinic photograph includes the Vietnamese 'PHÒNG BỆNH HƠN CHỮA BỆNH' (prevention is better than cure); it is a sign inside a photograph and is not part of the printed layout. The Khmer text is not read by FRAME.
