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- 1From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedHealth care-associated infections are the most frequent adverse health-care event, affecting hundreds of millions of patients around the world. Many of these potentially life-threatening infections are preventable...
- 2From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective To determine whether blood haemoglobin concentration in preschool-age children (<5 years of age)is geographically heterogeneous in sub-Saharan Africa and describe its association with environmental variables...
- 3From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedEarly scientific information presented in conference posters is an important resource but often it is lost once a conference is over. These posters disappear, unless the research is published later as a paper. Faculty...
- 4From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective To systematically review randomized controlled trials comparing the effect of supplementation with multiple micronutrients versus iron and folic acid on pregnancy outcomes in developing countries. Methods...
- 5From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed5 June: World Environment Day http://www.unep.org/wed 14 June: World Blood Donor Day http://wbdd.org 16 June: Informal interactive hearing on noncommunicable diseases, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA....
- 6From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIn March, 16 new medicines were added to WHO's Model List of Essential Medicines (EML). These new additions included artesunate + amodiaquine combination tablets to treat malaria in adults and children and 200-[micro]g...
- 7From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective To appraise the process of development and clinical content of national human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) clinical practice guidelines of countries in the eastern Mediterranean and to formulate...
- 8From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedMore Africans have access to a mobile phone than to a clean toilet, according to Mobile Africa report 2011. The report forecasts that 68% of the African population will own a mobile phone in the next five years, while...
- 9From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWhile almost half of the world's adults at any one time have recent personal experience of headache, there is little knowledge of how headache affects many of the populations of the world. Launched on 3 May, the Atlas...
- 10From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective To investigate potential differences in the availability of medicines for chronic and acute conditions in low- and middle-income countries. Methods Data on the availability of 30 commonly-surveyed medicines...
- 11From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThere are many definitions of e-health. (1) In 2001 Eysenbach defined e-health as "an emerging field in the intersection of medical informatics, public health and business, referring to health services and information...
- 12From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIf just 1% of a country's population donated blood, it would be sufficient to meet its basic requirements for blood transfusion. But donation rates are still less than 1% in 77 countries, all of which are low- and...
- 13From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective To assess trends in hospital births in China during 1988-2008 in an effort to determine if efforts to overcome financial barriers to giving birth in hospital have reduced the access gap between the rich and...
- 14From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedChildren with disabilities, such as this Tanzanian boy with spina bifida, should be included in mainstream schools where possible. This is one of the recommendations made in the first World report on disability, to be...
- 15From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedQ: With limited money to deal with so many public health challenges in the world, how does the Gates Foundation decide where to allocate funds? A: [The] Gates [Foundation] takes a problem, whether it be malaria,...
- 16From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe world's attention has recently been focused on the escalation of violence in north and west Africa. Daily reports of deaths and injuries from the region have raised concerns. What is missing from the picture,...
- 17From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed"When I was pregnant with my son I drank a lot-mostly on weekends" says Marion Williams, a 45-year-old mother who lost two of her five children in childbirth. Williams lives in one of South Africa's famous...
- 18From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe natural sex ratio at birth ranges from 102 to 106 males per 100 females. However, gender-biased sex selection through such practices as selective abortion and infanticide has resulted in birth ratios as high as 130...
- 19From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective To assess 12-month survival, pharmacokinetics, immunologic and virologic efficacy, tolerance, compliance and drug resistance in HIV-infected children in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, receiving once-daily...
- 20From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedNoncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading killer today and are on the increase, according to the first WHO Global status report on noncommunicable diseases launched in Moscow on 27 April 2011. Conditions such as...