Towards evidence-based health care reform.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether home visits for neonatal care by community health workers can reduce infant and neonatal deaths and stillbirths in resource-limited settings. METHODS:We conducted a systematic review up to 2008 of controlled trials comparing various intervention packages, one of them being home visits fo...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Gogia S,Sachdev HS

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic different approaches can be distinguished, reflecting professional backgrounds, world views and political interests. One important distinction is between the biomedical and the development paradigms. The biomedical paradigm is characterized by individualization and the concep...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Wolffers I

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:The International Standard for Hyaluronidase is derived from a blend of four batches of bovine testicular hyaluronidase which had been purified so as to contain approximately 400 units per milligram. The material was mixed with beta-lactose, and lyophilized. Tablets were made from the dried mixture, and were examined ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： HUMPHREY JH

更新日期：1957-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With a view to developing a schedule for the ambulatory treatment of Schistosoma haematobium infection with sodium antimony dimercaptosuccinate (TWSb), a trial was conducted in Tanzania of the comparative effectiveness of daily and weekly injections of TWSb in schoolchildren. In-patients received five daily injections...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Jordan P

更新日期：1965-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a nomenclature system for allergens which has been officially recommended by the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS). The nomenclature is based on proposals of the IUIS Sub-Committee for Allergen Nomenclature and is applicable to highly purified, well-characterized allergens and...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Marsh DG,Goodfriend L,King TP,Lowenstein H,Platts-Mills TA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many global health institutions, including the World Health Organization, consider primary health care as the path towards achieving universal health coverage (UHC). However, there remain concerns about the feasibility and effectiveness of this approach in low-resource countries. Ethiopia has been implementing the pri...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Assefa Y,Hill PS,Gilks CF,Admassu M,Tesfaye D,Van Damme W

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histochemical staining methods for acid phosphatase were used to study the differences among microfilariae of various West African strains of Onchocerca volvulus in both forest and Sudan-savanna onchocerciasis zones. The results have shown statistically significant differences in the staining patterns of microfilarial...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Omar MS,Prost A,Marshall TF

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serological survey was conducted among Tuareg nomads to determine their level of immunity to measles. More than half (57.9%) of the children under 10 years of age did not have detectable antibodies to measles, suggesting that transmission of the disease is low in this mobile population. Mothers' reports of their chi...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Loutan L,Paillard S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health impact assessment (HIA) is a multidisciplinary aid to decision-making that assesses the impact of policy on public health and on health inequalities. Its purpose is to assist decision-makers to maximize health gains and to reduce inequalities. The 1999 Gothenburg Consensus Paper (GCP) provides researchers with ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Wright J,Parry J,Mathers J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental investigations have been carried out in 32 children on the therapeutic effect of griseofulvin in favus caused by Trichophyton schoenleinii and to determine the optimal treatment schedule.It was found that, while daily doses of 3.12 mg, 6.25 mg or 12.50 mg griseofulvin per kg of body-weight did bring about...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Grin EI,Nadazdin M

更新日期：1965-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 1300 compounds have so far been included in the WHO Programme for Evaluating and Testing New Insecticides, which is designed to disclose compounds that may satisfactorily replace those to which insect vectors of disease have become resistant. The authors describe the successful passage of o-isopropoxyphenyl ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Wright JW,Fritz RF,Hocking KS,Babione R,Gratz NG,Pal R,Stiles AR,Vandekar M

更新日期：1969-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of antigenic studies of the viruses received at the World Influenza Centre from the 1952-3 influenza epidemic are described. As in 1950-1, two main antigenic groups of influenza A viruses could be distinguished. One group, called Liverpool, contained strains closely related to 1950-1 Liverpool strains. The...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： ISAACS A,DEPOUX R,FISET P

更新日期：1954-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To understand better the current regional situation and public health response to cervical cancer and female breast cancer in the Americas. METHODS:Data on cervical cancer and female breast cancers in 33 countries, for the period from 2000 to the last year with available data, were extracted from the Pan Ame...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Luciani S,Cabanes A,Prieto-Lara E,Gawryszewski V

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The source (species of origin), type, and subgroup (where applicable) of the immunoglobulin chain are indicated prior to the numbers of the first and last amino acid residues comprising the synthesized sequence (stated in parentheses), e.g., human gamma 1 (289-298) or rat epsilon (143-147). Square brackets indicate th...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore what individuals at risk of injury from using paraffin (also known as kerosene) know about paraffin safety, what they do to protect themselves and their families from paraffin-related injury, and how they perceive their risk for such injury. Also, to explore interrelations between these factors and...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Schwebel DC,Swart D,Hui SK,Simpson J,Hobe P

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PROBLEM:The potential for misidentification of trial participants, leading to misclassification, is a threat to the integrity of randomized controlled trials. The correct identification of study subjects in large trials over prolonged periods is of vital importance to those conducting clinical trials. Currently used me...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： SonLa Study Group.

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Handicap is the result of a process of disablement whose origin is a pathological condition (disease). According to some definitions of health (e.g., a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being), the classical biomedical concept is too restrictive to cover all the consequences of disease. New models hav...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Minaire P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordinated global efforts to prevent and control malaria have been a tour-de-force for public health, but success appears to have reached a plateau in many parts of the world. While this is a multifaceted problem, policy strategies have largely ignored genetic variations in humans as a factor that influences both sel...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Roederer MW,McLeod H,Juliano JJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of primary health care programmes in Thailand over the past three decades can be attributed not only to medical advances but to the role of community health volunteers. Buddhist monks and their temples have been strongly involved in health promotion and education, particularly in remote, rural communities....

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Treerutkuarkul A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine trends in the causes of death in a West African town. Mortality caused by infectious diseases is reported to be declining while degenerative and man-made mortality factors are increasingly significant. Most mortality analyses for sub-Saharan Africa have involved extrapolation and have not been de...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： van der Sande MA,Inskip HM,Jaiteh KO,Maine NP,Walraven GE,Hall AJ,McAdam KP

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several methods have been advanced for refinement of the conventional infant-mortality rate by relating the deaths to the corresponding annual birth cohorts. The author has tested the accuracy of such methods by assuming various "true" infant mortality rates and applying them to quarterly birth statistics as documente...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： KANNISTO V

更新日期：1957-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study was conducted in Yaoundé, United Republic of Cameroon, to evaluate the hypothesis that intramuscular inoculations predisposed young children to paralysis if they were later exposed to poliomyelitis virus. Thirty-three cases with lower motor neuron disease and 66 neighbourhood controls were studied...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Guyer B,Bisong AA,Gould J,Brigaud M,Aymard M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified ovitrap from which larvae could not escape was employed for one year for the control of Aedes aegypti at Blossom Heights, Houston, Texas. At the end of this period, the Breteau index in the ovitrap area had declined by 36%, in contrast to a sharp increase of nearly 500% in the non-ovitrap area. The premises...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Cheng ML,Ho BC,Bartnett RE,Goodwin N

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：:Inspection and palpation are the traditional methods used to determine thyroid volume in areas of moderate-to-severe iodine deficiency. However, in areas of mild endemicity, and generally whenever goitres are small, ultrasonography is a safe, noninvasive technique that provides a more precise and objective method for ...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors：

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1995, the WHO Regional Office for Africa launched a logistics project to address the four main areas of immunization logistics: the cold chain, transport, vaccine supply and quality, and the safety of injections in the countries of the region. The impact of this logistic approach on immunization injection safety wa...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Dicko M,Oni AQ,Ganivet S,Kone S,Pierre L,Jacquet B

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous surveillance of influenza was carried out in Pune between 1978 and 1990. Most of the cases were identified during investigation of 16 outbreaks of influenza in Pune over this period. The majority of cases were children. Ten of the outbreaks occurred during rainy seasons. A total of 290 isolates consisting o...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Rao BL,Banerjee K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although no full-scale survey of the prevalence of bilharziasis in Swaziland has been carried out, examinations of schoolchildren have revealed S. mansoni infection rates of up to 49% in some areas, and S. haematobium infection rates ranging from 3% to 75%. The highest prevalence occurs in areas where there are thickl...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： PITCHFORD RJ

更新日期：1958-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dracontiasis is one of the most easily preventable of the tropical parasitic diseases, yet in India the infection is still present in large numbers of people and causes extreme degrees of morbidity and incapacitation.The 10 000 inhabitants of 4 villages in South India were interviewed and the prevalence of guinea-worm...

journal_title：Bulletin of the World Health Organization

authors： Reddy CR,Narasaiah IL,Parvathi G

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00