Marion Koopmans: greater regional capacity to fight disease outbreaks.

abstract：:Rosa Moreira tells Andréia Azevedo Soares how Angola reined in its worst yellow fever epidemic in 30 years. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PROBLEM:Streptococcus suis is a common cause of adult bacterial meningitis in Viet Nam, and possibly other parts of Asia, yet this disabling infection has been largely neglected. Prevention, diagnosis and treatment are relatively straightforward and affordable but, in early 2007, no national diagnostic, case management...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Horby P,Wertheim H,Ha NH,Trung NV,Trinh DT,Taylor W,Ha NM,Lien TT,Farrar J,Van Kinh N

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patent system is now reaching into the tools of medical research, including gene sequences themselves. Many of the new patents can potentially preempt large areas of medical research and lay down legal barriers to the development of a broad category of products. Researchers must therefore consider redesigning thei...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Barton JH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current transportation policies in mega-cities worldwide lead to major threats to health through traffic injuries, air pollution, noise, reduction in physical activities, and adverse impact on urban quality of life. In addition, a large section of the population in cities in low-income countries has to live in informa...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Tiwari G

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:To assess the outcomes of children diagnosed with hearing impairment 3 years earlier in terms of referral uptake, treatment received and satisfaction with this treatment, and social participation. Methods:We conducted a population-based longitudinal analysis of children with a hearing impairment in two rural...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Mulwafu W,Tataryn M,Polack S,Viste A,Goplen FK,Kuper H

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author describes the design and operation of an automatic molluscicide dispenser for use in flowing water. The equipment, which consists basically of a measuring weir coupled to a float-activated siphon, was designed for simplicity, low cost, construction with commonly available materials, and operation by untrain...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： KLOCK JW

更新日期：1956-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Problem:Slovenia's model of primary health care relied on reactive, episodic care and was ill-equipped to address the country's burden of disease dominated by noncommunicable diseases. Approach:The government has developed a multidisciplinary, community-based, prevention-oriented service delivery model for primary hea...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Johansen AS,Vracko P,West R

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For several years after the First World War calcium oxide was the main compound used in the control of Oncomelania nosophora in Japan. This was generally replaced in 1944 by calcium cyanamide; since 1952 the prefectural authorities in areas of endemic bilharziasis have increasingly turned to the use of sodium pentachl...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： KOMIYA Y

更新日期：1961-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1961 the WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization asked the National Institute for Medical Research, London, to collect and study material to replace the first International Standard for Serum Gonadotrophin, stocks of which were running low. This paper describes the material that was contributed, its dist...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Bangham DR,Woodward PM

更新日期：1966-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While an earlier live measles vaccine induced a high degree of immunity it also caused clinical reactions of variable severity in some vaccinated children. A number of attenuated measles vaccine strains have been developed to avoid these problems, and this paper reports the results of small-scale trials with 3 attenua...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Swartz T,Klingberg W,Nishmi M,Goldblum N,Gerichter C,Yofe Y,Cockburn WC

更新日期：1968-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of tobacco smoking on the outcome of tuberculosis treatment in Tbilisi, Georgia. METHODS:We conducted a prospective cohort study of adults with laboratory-confirmed tuberculosis from May 2011 to November 2013. History of tobacco smoking was collected using a standardized questionnaire ad...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Gegia M,Magee MJ,Kempker RR,Kalandadze I,Chakhaia T,Golub JE,Blumberg HM

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis with isoniazid plus p-aminosalicylic acid (PAS) at home is, in the majority of cases, as satisfactory as treatment with the same combination of drugs in sanatorium and does not appear to expose the patient's contacts to any special risk. Before mass do...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：1960-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radiometric method has been developed which provides for the simple and rapid measurement of human blood cholinesterase under field conditions. The method involves minimal dilution of samples and the use of very low substrate concentrations, and is therefore more sensitive to cholinesterase inhibition by reversible ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： WINTERINGHAM FP,DISNEY RW

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described whereby it is possible to make an accurate determination of the physiological age of anopheline females, i.e., the number of gonotrophic cycles through which the female has passed. This technique is based on counts of the dilatations left in the ovarioles subsequent to each maturation of folli...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： BEKLEMISHEV WN,DETINOVA TS,POLOVODOVA VP

更新日期：1959-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue haemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome (DHF/DSS) is an enigmatic and growing public health problem which is confined at present to countries of South-East Asia. Since 1956, over 350 000 patients have been hospitalized and nearly 12 000 deaths have been reported. Dengue viruses, a group of four flaviviruses, a...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Halstead SB

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of affordable medicines is a major barrier to providing high-quality health care in many countries. Fatima Suleman talks to Fiona Fleck. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers new developments to strengthen sexual and reproductive health and HIV linkages and discusses factors that continue to impede progress. It is based on a previous review undertaken for the United Kingdom Department for International Development in 2006 that examined the constraints and opportunities...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Dickinson C,Attawell K,Druce N

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular diseases are often found to be associated with certain physicochemical characteristics of the environment-namely, the hardness of the water and the types of rock and soil underlying the area. Areas supplied with soft water usually have higher cardiovascular death rates than do areas supplied with hard w...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Masironi R,Miesch AT,Crawford MD,Hamilton EI

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health care reform in Europe is discussed in the light of the Ljubljana Charter, with particular reference to progress made in Estonia and Lithuania. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Vienonen M,Jankauskiene D,Vask A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the proportion of participants in clinical trials who understand different components of informed consent. METHODS:Relevant studies were identified by a systematic review of PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar and by manually reviewing reference lists for publications up to October 2013. A meta-ana...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Tam NT,Huy NT,Thoa le TB,Long NP,Trang NT,Hirayama K,Karbwang J

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether integrating antiretroviral therapy (ART) into antenatal care (ANC) and maternal and child health (MCH) clinics could improve programmatic and patient outcomes. METHODS:The authors systematically searched PubMed, Embase, African Index Medicus and LiLACS for randomized controlled trials, p...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Suthar AB,Hoos D,Beqiri A,Lorenz-Dehne K,McClure C,Duncombe C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New initiatives are aiming to reduce the global burden of schistosomiasis, mainly through the large-scale application of chemotherapy. To target chemotherapy effectively, rapid assessment procedures are needed for identifying high-risk communities that are foci for the disease. In this review, we examine the developme...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Lengeler C,Utzinger J,Tanner M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lay health workers are key to achieving universal health-care coverage, therefore measuring worker attrition and identifying its determinants should be an integral part of any lay health worker programme. Both published and unpublished research on lay health workers has largely focused on the types of interventions th...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Nkonki L,Cliff J,Sanders D

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported is an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) that has been optimized and validated for the determination of chloroquine in urine or dried blood spots. The assay employs antisera raised in sheep to a chloroquine derivative conjugated to keyhole limpet haemocyanin and chloroquine conjugated to porcine thyrog...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Rowell V,Rowell FJ,Baker A,Laurie D,Sidki AM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until very recently, rabies research had made few notable advances since the time of Pasteur, but during the past few years the use of modern virological techniques has led to rapid progress in research on the rabies virus. This article summarizes the present state of knowledge of pathogenesis, immunology, cultivation...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Campbell JB,Kaplan MM,Koprowski H,Kuwert E,Sokol F,Wiktor TJ

更新日期：1968-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment received by children aged under 5 years with diarrhoea was studied in the Hospital Infantil de México (Federico Goméz), Mexico City. The costs of treatment were calculated and estimates were made of how these had changed since the establishment of an oral rehydration unit in the hospital in 1985. The res...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Phillips M,Kumate-Rodríguez J,Mota-Hernández F

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective population chemotherapy using a single dose of praziquantel (40 mg per kg body weight), which was offered to 29,365 schoolchildren in Abu El Matameer and 40,241 in Abo Homos districts, Beheira governorate in the Nile delta, reduced the prevalence of schistosomiasis from 75.4% to 40.9% (reduction of 45.8%) an...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： el Malatawy A,el Habashy A,Lechine N,Dixon H,Davis A,Mott KE

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some of the acute diarrhoeas of man are specific infectious diseases. Another and major proportion have no demonstrated infectious agent. No characteristic clinical pattern regularly distinguishes one specific disease entity from another, nor specific from non-specific infections, nor epidemic from endemic disease. Si...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： GORDON JE,BEHAR M,SCRIMSHAW NS

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistics have been compiled to show the relation of the numbers of physicians, medical schools, and students to areas and populations throughout the world. Some of the figures are estimates and assumptions, and because of this the author repeatedly warns against tempting deductions and conclusions.This quantitative ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Troupin JL

更新日期：1955-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper represents a personal reflection on what is needed worldwide to prevent child injuries. It repeats messages that have been frequently delivered in the past. The main points are: first, the need for everyone to accept the view that, ultimately, injuries are a health problem and health departments must view t...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Pless IB

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00