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- 1From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedInterdisciplinary perspectives on health policy and practice -- competing interests or complementary interpretations? Jane Robinson, Mark Avis, Joanna Latimer, & Michael Traynor. Published by Churchill Livingstone,...
- 2From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbout half a million residents of the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, are at risk of serious illness due to chemical pollution from tanneries near their homes, according to a report released last year by the Bangladesh...
- 3From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective To assess the skills of community health volunteers in diagnosing active trachoma and distributing azithromycin in the Northern Region of Ghana. Methods Six community health volunteers from Daboya were...
- 4From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThere is considerable exigency to take all necessary steps to cure tuberculosis cases and prevent further emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis. The most important of these steps is to ensure that the treatment,...
- 5From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMentally ill Americans are nearly twice as likely to smoke as those without mental illness, according to a study reported in late November in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The study, conducted...
- 6From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjectives To assess the ability of mothers in a rural area of the Republic of Guinea to identify fever in their children, and to estimate the proportion of children who received antimalarial drugs. Methods Children...
- 7From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed2001 is when the new millennium really starts, according to some. Whether we agree or not, issue 1, year 1, is a good place and time to take stock of the evolution of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. With...
- 8From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEditor -- The paper by Curtis & Mnzav (1) dealing with the comparison of residual house spraying and insecticide-treated nets for malaria control is timely, since important strategic choices have to be made in the Roll...
- 9From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedScientists have created a two-part vaccine that bas protected monkeys from the deadly Ebola virus, they reported in the 30 November 2000 issue of Nature. One part of the vaccine consists of DNA, "naked DNA", coding...
- 10From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective A cross-sectional survey was conducted in three districts of Quang Ninh province, Viet Nam, to find out what proportion of the people who lived there engaged in behaviour that put them at risk of becoming...
- 11From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn December WHO launched an initiative aimed at bridging the information technology gap. This "digital divide", as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called it, currently handicaps health researchers in low-income...
- 12From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe sculpture of human lungs shown above is one of 20 exhibits by European artists, all inspired by the theme: Quitting smoking. This "SmokeArt" show, organized by WHO, was launched last November in London and will...
- 13From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis section looks back to some ground-breaking contributions to public health, reproducing them in their original form and adding a commentary on their significance from a modern-day perspective. John Sbarbaro reviews...
- 14From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA tomato a day keeps death away (for some people) Children eating tomatoes had a significantly lower mortality rate than children who did not, in a prospective study of nearly 29 000 Sudanese children under 5 years...
- 15From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjectives The present study was carried out in seven maternity hospitals to determine the prevalence of maternal syphilis at the time of delivery and the associated risk factors, to conduct a pilot project of rapid...
- 16From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper reviews the scientific basis for trials exploring the relation between sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in Mwanza in the United Republic of Tanzania and...
- 17From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective The preservation of Streptococcuspneumoniae by standard freezing methods for subsequent tests -- such as serotyping and antibiotic susceptibility -- is not possible or is difficult in many developing countries...
- 18From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Russian Federation and other parts of Eastern Europe are facing a major AIDS crisis according to the latest HIV/AIDS figures released last December by the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Although...
- 19From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective The homicide rate for children and adolescents in Recife, Brazil, mostly caused by firearms, is one of the highest that has been reported. The present case--control study was designed to identify factors that...
- 20From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe World Health Organization Tuberculosis Unit undertook a special study [1] in 1989/90 to determine the nature and magnitude of the global tuberculosis problem by reviewing the official statistics and the available...