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abstract：:Structural quality is a key element in the quality of care provided at the primary level, which aims to offer health care interventions of proven efficacy. This assessment of the structural quality of Tanzanian primary health services indicated serious weaknesses in the available physical infrastructure, as well as su...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Gilson L,Magomi M,Mkangaa E

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In South-East Asia in recent years urbanization has proceeded rapidly. Because of limited financial resources it has seldom been possible to provide sufficient sanitation; this has led to conditions favourable to the breeding of Culex pipiens fatigans. The density of C. p. fatigans is higher in urban areas than in rur...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Singh D

更新日期：1967-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits have commonly been used for testing the blood-level duration limit of penicillin, but have proved not to be entirely suitable. Experiments reported in this paper on the use of sheep suggest that these animals can be successfully used for the testing of procaine benzylpenicillin with aluminium monostearate (PAM...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： AGARWAL SC,DUDANI AT,SHRIVASTAV JB,SETHI SK

更新日期：1961-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumours of the pancreas occur most commonly in dogs and cats and only rarely in other domestic species. The incidence of neoplasms, both exocrine and endocrine, increases with age. Exocrine adenocarcinomas are the most common malignant tumours and have three fairly distinct morphological patterns: small tubular, large...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Kircher CH,Nielsen SW

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The haemagglutination-inhibition test has been used to assess the frequency of arbovirus infections in the population of Ceylon, by age-group, and also in some animals. The antigens used were: chikungunya, JE, dengue 1, 2, 3, 4, and Tahyna.The percentage of positive reactors to the group-B viruses ranged from 16.3% to...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Vesenjak-Hirjan J,Hermon Y,Vitarana T

更新日期：1969-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This identification key has been prepared to enable field workers in eastern and centra Africa to identify the species and subspecies of snails acting as intermediate hosts of various flukes causing bilharziasis and related diseases in man and his domestic stock.The area covered by the key is eastern Africa from the S...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： MANDAHL-BARTH G

更新日期：1962-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public and political awareness of emerging infectious diseases is growing, as animal and human health specialists work closer together to avert potential outbreaks. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Fleck F,Braine T

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:The paucity of information on the ecology of wild animal reservoirs over most of the world is one of the factors that has led to hesitation and failure in controlling these diseases in many areas. Extensive application of ecological studies and methods would not only assist in zoonosis control but might well also lead...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： ABDUSSALAM M

更新日期：1959-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health technology assessment (HTA) is the multidisciplinary study of the implications of the development, diffusion and use of health technologies. It supports health-policy decisions by providing a joint knowledge base for decision-makers. To increase its policy relevance, HTA tries to extend beyond effectiveness and...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Saarni SI,Hofmann B,Lampe K,Lühmann D,Mäkelä M,Velasco-Garrido M,Autti-Rämö I

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha antitoxin contents of the International Reference Preparations of Clostridium welchii Types B and D Antitoxins were assayed against two type A test toxins-Cl. welchii (perfringens) test toxin P2, issued by the Statens Seruminstitut, Copenhagen, and Cl. welchii test toxin AGX 1373, issued by the Wellcome Rese...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： SKULBERG A,VAN HEYNINGEN WE

更新日期：1956-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is often impossible to measure the reference standard of cardiorespiratory fitness (the maximum oxygen intake) directly, and there is thus a need for subsidiary standard procedures based on body responses to submaximal exercise. In order to reach agreement on such procedures, a recent international working party ha...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Shephard RJ,Allen C,Benade AJ,Davies CT,Di Prampero PE,Hedman R,Merriman JE,Myhre K,Simmons R

更新日期：1968-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The single radial haemolysis reaction has been shown to be suitable for the quantitative assay of specific antibody to West Nile and Sindbis viruses. Only 5 mul of undiluted serum are needed for the test, which can be performed on crude preparations of antigen and without removal of nonspecific inhibitors. It is there...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Duca M,Duca E,Ionescu L,Abdalla H

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have attempted to prepare lysed BCG vaccines retaining the protective antigens of the BCG cell wall and yet eliciting in experimental animals limited sensitivity to the tuberculin substances, the advantage sought being to retain the usefulness of the tuberculin following vaccination as an indicator of supe...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Sato H,Diena BB,Greenberg L

更新日期：1967-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the impact of user fees on the utilization of health services in a community-based cost-sharing scheme in Kabarole District, western Uganda. METHODS:Of the 38 government health units that had introduced user-fee financing schemes, 11 were included in the study. Outpatient utilization was assesse...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Kipp W,Kamugisha J,Jacobs P,Burnham G,Rubaale T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of measles immunization on diarrhea morbidity and mortality are reviewed using data from field studies and theoretical calculations. 2 types of measles-associated diarrhea are distinguished: with-measles diarrhea, which starts between 1 week prerash-onset and 4 weeks postrash-onset, and postmeasles diarr...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Feachem RG,Koblinsky MA

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of BCG vaccine in the prevention of leprosy has been one of the most important subjects of investigation in the field of leprology in the last 25 years. The action of the vaccine was for many years investigated by determining its effect on the lepromin reaction. Field studies were later considered essential to...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Bechelli LM,Garbajosa G,Uemura K,Engler V,Martínez Domínguez V,Paredes L,Sundaresan T,Koch G,Matejka M

更新日期：1970-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asian influenza appears to have reached India via Madras in May 1957. The main pandemic wave swept through the subcontinent within the next 12 weeks; cases occurring thereafter represent the permanent infiltration of the new virus into the population. Between 19 May 1957 and 8 February 1958 there were reported 4 451 7...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： MENON IG

更新日期：1959-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many health facilities in east Africa, haemoglobin estimation is performed using visual colour comparison methods. Efforts to establish colorimetric methods face numerous constraints, including the unavailability of standards for quality control. In contrast, the alkaline haematin D-575 method for haemoglobin estim...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Lema OE,Carter JY,Arube PA,Munafu CG,Wangai MW,Rees PH

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccines constitute the single most important cost factor in the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in Mozambique and in view of future new disease-control initiatives, the proportional expenditure on vaccines will only increase. Airfreight may contribute up to at least 25% of the total cost of delivered vaccine...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Schreuder B,Arentsen H,Matosse M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cross-reactivity of filarial heteroantigens, the non-availability of adult Wuchereria bancrofti for antigen extraction, and the lack of structural information on purified filarial heteroantigens make the serological diagnosis of W. bancrofti infection in man a difficult problem. The use of immune sera from cattle ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Dissanayake S,Ismail MM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risks and expected benefits from iodized oil, given orally or by injection, to pregnant women in areas of severe iodine deficiency where iodized salt is not available were evaluated. The conclusions, which were approved by the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD), showed that f...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper presents clinical observations on 1 233 persons with smallpox who were admitted to the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Calcutta, in 1973. The disease was of the modified type in 53 patients (4.3%), the ordinary type in 717 (58.2%), the flat type in 249 (20.2%), and the haemorrhagic type in 214 (17.3%). The fat...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Mazumder DN,Mitra AC,Mukherjee MK

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：:Although trench fever appears to be endemic in many areas of the world, recognition of the disease has been handicapped by the difficulties of making a clinical diagnosis and the unavailability of a simple laboratory procedure to establish the etiology. The author describes a method for the in vitro cultivation of Ric...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Vinson JW

更新日期：1966-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The migration of health workers within and between countries is a growing concern worldwide because of its impact on health systems in developing and developed countries alike. Policy decisions need to be made at the national, regional and international levels to manage more effectively this phenomenon, but those deci...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Diallo K

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Tlaxcala State, Mexico, we determined that 80% of children who died from diarrhoea or acute respiratory infections (ARI) received medical care before death; in more than 70% of the cases this care was provided by a private physician. Several strategies have been developed to improve physicians' primary health care ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Bojalil R,Guiscafré H,Espinosa P,Viniegra L,Martínez H,Palafox M,Gutiérrez G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects with sickle cell trait have been known to offer resistance to induced Plasmodium falciparum infection. The resistance to malarial infection in other haemoglobinopathic disorders is not clearly known. Investigations were undertaken to test for resistance to malaria in Hb E thalassaemia disease. Compared to con...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： RAY RN,CHATTERJEA JB,CHAUDHURI RN

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent investigations have revealed that monkeypox virus infections occur with a high prevalence in several species of squirrels belonging to the genus Funisciurus, less frequently in squirrels of the genus Heliosciurus, and rarely in forest-dwelling primates. These squirrels commonly inhabit the secondary forests aro...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Khodakevich L,Jezek Z,Messinger D

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the effectiveness of oral ivermectin (IV) and two different modalities of topical benzyl benzoate (BB) for treating scabies in a community setting. METHODS:The trial included patients aged 5-65 years with scabies who attended the dermatology department at the Institut d'Hygiène Sociale in Dakar, S...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Ly F,Caumes E,Ndaw CA,Ndiaye B,Mahé A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00