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- 1From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedUp to 85% of people with mental and psychosocial disabilities have no access to treatment, according to a WHO report, Targeting people with mental health conditions as a vulnerable group, which was launched on 16 August...
- 2From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIn volume 88, Number 9, September 2010, p. 709, the affiliation for Edward J O'Rourke should have read: [c] Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.070821...
- 3From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedObjective Under Millennium Development Goal 4, countries are required to reduce child mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. In countries with generalized epidemics of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)...
- 4From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedA new gene that enables some types of bacteria to be highly resistant to almost all antibiotics has been identified, according to an article published online in The Lancet Infectious Diseases on 11 August 2010. This...
- 5From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedProblem Despite the Government's effort to expand services to district level, it is still hard for people living with HIV to access antiretroviral treatment (ART) in rural Zambia. Strong demands for expanding ART...
- 6From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedOn 9 September, more than 350 health experts met in Bangkok, Thailand, to discuss ways to improve access to life-saving medical devices in developing countries. There are around 10 500 different types of medicar devices...
- 7From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedLow-income countries in Asia and the Pacific have the highest burden of suicide in the world. These countries are among the poorest globally, and face many social and political challenges. Suicide trends in these...
- 8From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedObjective To conduct the first rigorous evaluation of the long-term effect of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project on childhood mortality in rural Maharashtra. Methods Background information and full birth...
- 9From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedWhen Sam [not his real name] found out that his pregnant wife was HIV-positive, he abandoned her, thinking that it was inevitable that their baby would be born with HIV. He did not know about measures available to...
- 10From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedPreventable and treatable injuries and diseases are overwhelming sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent and other impoverished areas of the world. Every year, 8 million children die before they reach the age of S,...
- 11From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedObjective To determine if educating caregivers in providing zinc supplements to infants < 6 months old with acute diarrhoea is effective in treating diarrhoea and preventing acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs),...
- 12From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedProblem Road traffic injuries are a leading cause of death and disability in Viet Nam. In 2008, official data reported 11 243 deaths and 7771 serious injuries on the roads, of which an estimated 60% of fatalities occur...
- 13From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedQ: What happened to medical services during the civil conflict in Sierra Leone? A: The civil war brought all of the health and economic infrastructures down to zero during the 10 years. Many clinics that had been...
- 14From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedObjective China has about 350 million smokers, more commonly men. Using data from National Health Service Surveys conducted in 1993, 1998 and 2003, we (i) estimated trends in smoking prevalence and cessation according...
- 15From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedObjective To establish the prevalence of common perinatal mental disorders their determinants, and their association with preventive health care use among women in one rural and one urban province in northern Viet Nam....
- 16From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedAccess to well trained and motivated health workers is the major rural health issue. Without local access, it is unlikely that people in rural and remote communities will be able to achieve the Millennium Development...
- 17From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThe number of women dying due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth decreased by 34% from an estimated 546 000 in 1990 to 358 000 in 2008, according to a report, Trends in maternal mortality, released on 15...
- 18From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedData presented at the United Nations Summit in September in New York has revealed that many countries are unlikely to achieve all the health targets of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. (1) The simultaneous and...
- 19From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedWhen Robyn Pope was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008 she was told that she would have to wait two months for a mastectomy if she wanted breast reconstruction as part of her treatment in the public health system....
- 20From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 88, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedWith only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), slow progress in MDG 5 (Improve maternal health) has been of concern to the international community....