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- 1From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAngel Honorio Roffo of Argentina (1882-1947) was one of the first to publish detailed accounts of animal experiments demonstrating the production of tumours by tobacco tars. As founding director of the Instituto de...
- 2From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAt the WHA, the annual meeting of WHO's top decision-making body, from 22 to 27 May, delegates discussed topics, including: pandemic-influenza preparedness and response; child nutrition; HIV/AIDS; polio eradication;...
- 3From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThere is no doubt that health workers are the cornerstone of functioning health systems. Chronic under-funding of health systems in developing countries has led to the current health worker crisis, which threatens the...
- 4From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective To assess the cost and cost-effectiveness of the Public-Private Mix DOTS (PPM-DOTS) strategy for tuberculosis (TB) control in India. Methods We collected data on the costs and effects of pilot PPM-DOTS...
- 5From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective To establish a surveillance network for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) risk factors in industrial settings and estimate the risk factor burden using standardized tools. Methods We conducted a baseline...
- 6From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedDr LEE Jong-wook, Director-General of the World Health Organization, 61, died on 22 May, two days after surgeons at Geneva Cantonal Hospital removed a blood clot from his brain. "The sudden loss of our leader, colleague...
- 7From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective To estimate the association between the intensity of animal infection with Schistosoma japonicum and human infection in Western Samar province, the Philippines. Methods We conducted an observational...
- 8From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIn 1998, the Damien Foundation Bangladesh invited semi-qualified, private "gram dakter" (Bangla for "village doctors") to participate in tuberculosis (TB) programmes in a population of 26 million people in rural...
- 9From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedCurrent sun safety messages stress the importance of sun protection in avoiding the consequences of excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR), such as skin cancers, cataracts and other eye diseases, and viral...
- 10From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedSince his arrival at WHO in January this year, Dr Howard Zucker has been pursuing several key goals: to compile a list of essential medicines for children; to step up the fight against counterfeit medicines; and identify...
- 11From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPhilanthropists are important funders of health care in developing countries, but their funding can be unreliable and misdirected. One philanthropist found that the best way to establish a health-care project of lasting...
- 12From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjectives To study the risk of non-fatal injury at low levels and moderate levels of alcohol consumption as well as the differences in risk across modes of injury and differences among alcoholics. Methods Data are...
- 13From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedA summary of numerous experiments carried out at the Cancer Institute in Buenos Aires which provide evidence for the carcinogenic effect of tobacco smoking. Even a cursory glance at the cancer statistics for all...
- 14From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAuthors: Cecilia Breinbauer & Matilde Maddaleno Publisher: Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA, 2005 ISBN: 92 75 11594 X; softcover, 392 pages; price CHF 50 (in developing countries CHF 35)...
- 15From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed* WHO announced on 11 May that a group of 13 pharmaceutical companies had agreed to comply with WHO's recommendation to phase out single-drug artemisinin medicines for oral treatment of malaria....
- 16From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective To reconstruct and analyse mortality trends in children younger than 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa between 1950 and 2000. Methods We selected 66 Demographic and Health Surveys and World Fertility Surveys...
- 17From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIn Vol. 84, issue number 4, 2006, page 307, in the penultimate line of column 2 the > [more than] symbol should be [greater than or equal to] [more than or equal to]. On page 309, in the 9th, 10th, 19th and 20th rows of...
- 18From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedDie Erfolge, die die Strahlentherapie im Kampf gegen den Krebs aufzuweisen hat, sind zweifellos recht bedeutsam. Trotzdem kann das bisher erzielte Ergebnis noch keineswegs befriedigen, da noch immer die Zahl der...
- 19From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWHO launched an interactive Flash feature on 19 May describing its work, priorities, Member States, staff, funding, partners, history and achievements, http://www.who.int/about/brochure_en.pdf...
- 20From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedCitation Only