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- 1From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective To determine the association of different feeding patterns for infants (exclusive breastfeeding, predominant breastfeeding, partial breastfeeding and no breastfeeding) with mortality and hospital admissions...
- 2From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective To investigate whether high estimates of the burden of depression could be attributed to an overestimation of disability weights (reflecting more severe disability). Methods We derived disability weights that...
- 3From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedEditors: David Castle, Robin Murray Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England; 2004 ISBN: 0521819407; hardback; 234 pages; price 45.00 £ This monograph is the professional person's guide to the...
- 4From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedProtecting the future: HIV prevention, care and support among displaced and war-affected populations Author: Wendy Holmes, International Rescue Committee Publisher: Kumarian Press/International Rescue Committee,...
- 5From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective Fewer than 3% of 4 million annual neonatal deaths occur in countries with reliable vital registration (VR) data. Global estimates for asphyxia-related neonatal deaths vary from 0.7 to 1.2 million. Estimates for...
- 6From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedTwo surveys of maternal mortality conducted in Egypt, in 1992-93 and in 2000, collected data from a representative sample of health bureaus covering all of Egypt, except for five frontier governorates which were covered...
- 7From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective To calculate the incidence and document the clinical features of chest X-ray- (CXR-) confirmed pneumonia in children aged between 1 month and 5 years living in Greater Suva, Fiji. Methods A retrospective...
- 8From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedEuropean Union (EU) Member States are interested in using health impact assessment (HIA) as a means of safeguarding their obligations to protect human health under the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam. However, several have...
- 9From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedEmpowering squatter citizen: local government, civil society, and urban poverty reduction Editors: Diana Mitlin & David Satterthwaite Publisher: Earthscan, London; 2004 ISBN: 1844071014; softcover; 336 pages, price...
- 10From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedSurvivors are likely to spend years wrestling with the mental health impact of the Asian tsunami and the earthquake off the Indonesian coast. Aid programmes will quickly reconstruct homes, schools and hospitals, but...
- 11From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective Sexually transmitted infection (STI) services were offered by the nongovernmental organization Medecins Sans Frontieres--Holland in Banteay Meanchey province, Cambodia, between 1997 and 1999. These services...
- 12From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective To provide global policy-makers with decision-making information for developing strategies for immunization of infants with a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine, this paper presents a retrospective cost...
- 13From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedDr Catherine Le Gales-Camus earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Paris in her native France in 1981. She joined the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research the following year, where her...
- 14From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe World health report 2005 provides a powerful analysis of the global scandal of mothers' and children's ill-health (1). Every year, over half a million women die from pregnancy-related causes and over 10 million...
- 15From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIn the era of evidence-based policy and practice, the importance of using research for decision-making in health systems has been increasingly recognized (W1). Numerous strategies to take research knowledge into action...
- 16From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIt is increasingly recognized that stronger health systems are needed to deliver health care interventions at the scale necessary to achieve and sustain health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially in...
- 17From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed* Bill Gates, Co-Founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was guest speaker at the opening of the 58th World Health Assembly (WHA) on 16 May. For full coverage of the WHA see next issue of the Bulletin on 1...
- 18From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedEditor--The Mexico Summit has highlighted the need to improve evidence for informed policy-making about health concerns in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We agree with Volmink et al. who, in a recent article...
- 19From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 83, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjectives To examine the reliability of reported rates of caesarean sections from developing countries and make recommendations on how data collection for surveys and health facility-based studies could be improved....