Using lot quality assurance sampling to improve immunization coverage in Bangladesh.

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：:In a case-control study we examined the association of Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite antibodies (anti-R32tet32) with subsequent P. falciparum infections. A study population of 140 children living in an endemic area was followed longitudinally for 25 weeks with weekly blood smears for malaria parasites and, on...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Pang LW,Limsomwong N,Karwacki J,Webster HK

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnitude of antigenic change of the Hong Kong strains from the earlier influenza A2 strains was compared with previous antigenic changes among the type A viruses. Representative type A strains recovered from man during the years 1933 through 1969 were examined by reciprocal haemagglutination-inhibition, neutraliz...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Dowdle WR,Coleman MT,Hall EC,Knez V

更新日期：1969-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a tool for evaluating the risk that an outbreak of meningitis will occur in a particular district of the Niger after outbreaks have been reported in other, specified districts of the country. METHODS:A Bayesian network was represented by a graph composed of 38 nodes (one for each district in the N...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Beresniak A,Bertherat E,Perea W,Soga G,Souley R,Dupont D,Hugonnet S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative data are presented on the viability of El Tor vibrios in various foodstuffs under different conditions. El Tor vibrios were found to have a very short life in water at -20 degrees C, but in various nutrient media, such as skim milk, sugar solution or meat extract, they could live for more than a month at ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Miyaki K,Iwahara S,Sato K,Fujimoto S,Aibara K

更新日期：1967-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Density gradients with metrizamide, a tri-iodinated benzamido derivative of glucose, have been used to separate erythrocytes infected with three species of murine plasmodia. Uninfected erythrocytes separated well from erythrocytes containing parasites in different developmental stages. With metrizamide solutions, the ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Eugui EM,Allison AC

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uruguay is hosting the WHO Global Conference on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) this month, from 18-20 October. Tabaré Vázquez, the President of Uruguay, tells the Bulletin of the World Health Organization about his country's efforts to prevent and fight NCDs and why countries should step up the global response. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental health services are becoming more widely available than ever before to the Syrian population in spite of the crisis. Dale Gavlak reports. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Gavlak D

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Picornavirus particles and serotype-specific neutralizing antibody were demonstrated in tears collected during early onset of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis. Virus particles deposited from tears by airfuge ultracentrifugation and stained with potassium phosphotungstate were easily recognized by electron microscopy....

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Yin-Murphy M,Abdul Rahim N,Phoon MC,Baharuddin-Ishak,Howe J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept proposed by WHO of an essential drugs list that should comprise drugs corresponding to the health needs of the majority of the people has been embraced by countries, which have adapted it to their needs. In this study, the essential antibacterial drug lists of 16 countries chosen from the six WHO regions a...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Fasehun F

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological effects of tuberculin in an organism infected with tubercle bacilli are due to an unknown number of different substances, which are present in varying concentrations in different tuberculin preparations. Consequently, the response to tuberculin tests with various products is likely to vary with the biol...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： HANSEN OG,LINDQVIST K,WAALER H

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Millennium Development Goals depend critically on scaling up public health investments in developing countries. As a matter of urgency, developing-country governments must present detailed investment plans that are sufficiently ambitious to meet the goals, and the plans must be inserted into existing donor process...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Sachs JD

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author sees the task of industrial psychiatry as one of preventing emotional maladjustment and the more serious mental disorders in the industrial population, and of treating early cases of emotional disorders. He classifies the preventive functions as: giving "emotional" first-aid, holding psychiatric consultatio...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： MINDUS E

更新日期：1955-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To examine the use of contraception in 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa; to assess changes in met need for contraception associated with wealth-related inequity; and to describe the relationship between the use of long-term versus short-term contraceptive methods and a woman's fertility intentions and house...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Creanga AA,Gillespie D,Karklins S,Tsui AO

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author examines in detail the symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment of plague, and outlines the problem of the length of the incubation period.The clinical features commonly met with in all severely-affected plague patients, regardless of the primary localization of the infection, are described. The author then...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： POLLITZER R

更新日期：1953-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of penicillin, ampicillin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, and streptomycin for 500 gonococcal strains were studied for product-moment coefficient correlations. The strains were isolated from male patients with acute gonococcal urethritis attending the Venereal Disease ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Gedebou M,Tassew A

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article surveys the attitudes and perceptions of a random sample of the elderly population in three regions of Italy on the use and efficacy of influenza vaccine. The data were collected by direct interviews using a standard questionnaire. The results show that vaccination coverage against influenza is inadequate...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Pregliasco F,Sodano L,Mensi C,Selvaggi MT,Adamo B,D'Argenio P,Giussani F,Simonetti A,Carosella MR,Simeone R,Dentizi C,Montanaro C,Ponzio G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The administration of rabies-immune serum in addition to regular vaccination has been recommended as routine treatment in man after severe exposure to rabies virus. The inhibitory effect of passive antibody on active immunity induced against rabies by vaccination was investigated in rabbits. It was demonstrated that a...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Wiktor TJ,Lerner RA,Koprowski H

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a result of improved medical services and diagnosis of cystic fibrosis (CF), it has in recent years become clear that this is a common genetic disorder with a worldwide distribution. The average life expectancy of CF patients is very low in the developing world, but in developed countries this fatal childhood disea...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyophilized cells for the passive (formerly indirect) haemagglutination test for malaria were tested in a small field trial. A comparison was made with results obtained with samples from the same persons by another method in another laboratory (Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, USA). The use of lyophilized cell...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Brögger RC,Mathews HM

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advancing the public health insurance system is one of the key strategies of the Senegalese government for achieving universal health coverage. In 2013, the government launched a universal health financial protection programme, la Couverture Maladie Universelle. One of the programme's aims was to establish a community...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Daff BM,Diouf S,Diop ESM,Mano Y,Nakamura R,Sy MM,Tobe M,Togawa S,Ngom M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of a research project on atherosclerosis, an international group of pathologists studied lesions in the aorta and coronary arteries obtained at autopsy from 3174 subjects from Czechoslovakia, Sweden and the USSR in an effort to determine what factors, recognizable in life, might be used to predict the pr...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Sternby NH,Vanĕcek R,Vihert A,Kagan A,Uemura K

更新日期：1965-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:To assess cash transfer interventions for improving treatment outcomes of active pulmonary tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries. Methods:We searched PubMed®, Embase®, Cochrane Library and ClinicalTrials.gov for studies published until 4 August 2017 that reported on cash transfer interventions dur...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Richterman A,Steer-Massaro J,Jarolimova J,Luong Nguyen LB,Werdenberg J,Ivers LC

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in those injured and not injured by landmines or unexploded ordnance (UXO) in rural Lao People's Democratic Republic and to determine whether the perception of social support was associated with PTSD symptom severity. METHODS:A community survey was c...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Southivong B,Ichikawa M,Nakahara S,Southivong C

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiomersal-iodine-formalin (TIF) has been used as a faecal preservative in many prevalence surveys of intestinal helminths and protozoa. In helminth surveys, however, estimates of worm burden are no less essential than those of prevalence. Direct-smear and dilution egg-counting techniques, using fresh faeces, have bee...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Dunn FL

更新日期：1968-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade, a massive increase in data collection and analysis has occurred in many fields. In the health sector, however, there has been relatively little progress in data analysis and application despite a rapid rise in data production. Given adequate governance, improvements in the quality, quantity, stor...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Wyber R,Vaillancourt S,Perry W,Mannava P,Folaranmi T,Celi LA

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a basis for considering the forms and patterns of national committees on vital and health statistics in the future, the author first discusses the six main objectives of national systems of those statistics. Turning then to the aims of the national committees themselves, he observes that such is the variety of stat...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： DUNN HL

更新日期：1954-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women's chances of survival during pregnancy and childbirth have greatly improved in Nepal. Sophie Cousins reports. ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00