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Mobile Exam Center Tour
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Click here to start the Mobile Exam Center tour

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The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey provides estimates of the health of Americans by examining a sample of people who represent the American population. To accomplish this, medical staff and other professionals travel across the U.S. in specially equipped mobile examination centers.

Navigating Tips
You'll notice once the images load they move by themselves.  Just click once anywhere on the image to stop it.  Now you have control over the movement.

Click & drag: to move up, down, left or right with in the room
Shift key: zoom in for a close-up
Ctrl key: zoom out for a wide view
hotspot graphic: Click on these to see and hear informative facts about each area in a room.
nextroom graphic: When your mouse changes to this over a doorway you can click and it will take you to the next room.

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In some instances this tour of the MEC requires a Live Picture® Zoom Viewer Plug-in for your browser in order to see the 360 degree panoramic images.  (If you see an image below, you do not need to download the viewer.   Just go to Start Tour >)

bullet.gif (831 bytes)Download the latest Live Picture® Zoom Viewer from the Live Picture website by clicking on the graphic below.  Follow the instructions on their download page. 
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bullet.gif (831 bytes)If you are having trouble downloading from the Live Picture site, try downloading the Live Picture® Zoom Viewer 3.2 from our FTP site.
1. Choose the appropriate version Windows 95/98/NT (1.2 MB) or Power Macintosh (1.5 MB) based on your operating system. 
2. Make note of the directory you save it in. 
3. Find the file and run the install program.  
4. Follow the on-screen steps. 
5. Come back to this page and click on Start Tour >.

 

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This page last reviewed January 08, 2003

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