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- 1From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAnaemia associated with malaria is a major public health problem in African countries. Since most primary health facilities have to rely on physical signs and not laboratory tests to detect anaemic patients who need...
- 2From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBringing together various disease-specific guidelines for sick children, WHO and UNICEF have developed an Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) algorithm, one component of which (assess and classify) was...
- 3From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe object of this study was to assess the ability of pallor and other clinical signs, including those in the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) guidelines developed by WHO and UNICEF, to identify severe...
- 4From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEvaluated is the use of thin-layer chromatography (TLC) to determine the quality of paracetamol tablets marketed in Bangladesh. The procedure was carried out using a cheap and rapid TLC method developed by the U.S. Food...
- 5From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo characterize the epidemiology of dysentery (defined as bloody diarrhoea) in Burundi, we reviewed national surveillance data and conducted a household cluster survey including two case--control studies: one at the...
- 6From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe 11-day training course on Integrated management of childhood illness was field tested with three types of first-level facility health workers: medical assistants, rural medical aides, and MCH (maternal and child...
- 7From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCongenital rubella syndrome (CRS) can lead to deafness, heart disease, and cataracts, and a variety of other permanent manifestations. In developing countries, the burden of CRS has been assessed as follows: by...
- 8From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMost of the 12.4 million deaths occurring every year among under-5-year-olds in developing countries could be prevented by the application of simple treatment strategies. So that health professionals who have had limited...
- 9From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAmerican mucocutaneous leishmaniasis is an important health problem in Peru, particularly in the mountainous Cuzco Region, where 25% of all new cases reported in 1989 were located. Cases have increased considerably since...
- 10From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOptimal treatment of Plasmodium falciparum-related paediatric anaemia can result in improved haematological recovery and survival. Clinical predictors are needed to identify children with anaemia in settings where...
- 11From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBetween 1992 and 1995 a series of studies was undertaken to assess the long-term suitability of pyrethroid-impregnated bednets (PIBs) for malaria control in Afghan refugee communities in two villages in North-West...
- 12From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe performance of six primary health workers was evaluated after following a 9-day training course on integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI). The participants were selected from three primary health centres...
- 13From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1995-96 we conducted a review of rubella immunization strategies. Worldwide, 78 countries (more than one-third) reported a national policy of using rubella vaccine. This was closely related to country economic status....
- 14From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPotential indicators were assessed for the two classifications of protein-energy malnutrition in the guidelines for integrated management of childhood illness: severe malnutrition, which requires immediate referral to...
- 15From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA community-based epidemiological survey of coronary heart disease and its risk factors was carried out over the period 1984-87 on a random sample of adults aged 25-64 years: 13 723 adults living in Delhi and 3375 in...
- 16From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLow mid-upper-arm circumference (MUAC), determined on the basis of a fixed cut-off value, has commonly been used as a proxy for low weight-for-height (wasting). The use of a fixed cut-off value was based on the...
- 17From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe object of this study was to evaluate and improve the guidelines for the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) with respect to identifying young infants and children requiring referral to hospital in an...
- 18From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1993, the World Health Organization completed the development of a draft algorithm for the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI), which deals with acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea, malaria, measles,...
- 19From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAn estimated 400000 deaths occur annually from neonatal tetanus (NT). In 1989 WHO adopted the goal of eliminating NT as a public health problem worldwide. To achieve this, and to control non-neonatal tetanus (non-NT),...
- 20From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article describes the technical basis for the guidelines for the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI), which are presented in the WHO/UNICEF training course on IMCI for outpatient health workers at...