Bulletin of WHO. Vol. 91 No. 04 2013. / by World Health Organization.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

World Health Organization, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Periodicals.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (80 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England : World Health Organization, [2013]

Summary:

The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is an international journal of public health with a special focus on developing countries. Since it was first published in 1948 the Bulletin has become one of the world's leading public health journals. As the flagship periodical of the World Health Organization (WHO) the Bulletin draws on WHO experts as editorial advisers reviewers and authors as well as on external collaborators. In this month's issue: Preventing cryptosporidiosis: the need for safe drinking water; Arguments against the compulsory treatment of opioid dependence; Deployment of community health workers across rural sub-Saharan Africa: financial considerations and operational assumptions; Maternal health care utilization in Viet Nam: increasing ethnic inequity; The effectiveness of policies for reducing dietary trans fat: a systematic review of the evidence; Alcohol and alcohol-related harm in China: policy changes needed; Removal of user fees no guarantee of universal health coverage: observations from Burkina Faso; The human qualities needed to complete the global eradication of polio; Ethical considerations for vaccination programmes in acute humanitarian emergencies; Untapped potential of health impact assessment; Scale-up of a comprehensive harm reduction programme for people injecting opioids: lessons from north-eastern India.

Contents:

BULLETIN OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - APR 2013

MASTHEAD

In this month's Bulletin

Editorials

Preventing cryptosporidiosis: the need for safe drinking water

Arguments against the compulsory treatment of opioid dependence

News

Public health round-up

Nigerians wake up to high blood pressure

Research

Deployment of community health workers across rural sub-Saharan Africa: financial considerations and operational assumptions

Maternal health care utilization in Viet Nam: increasing ethnic inequity

Systematic reviews

The effectiveness of policies for reducing dietary trans fat: a systematic review of the evidence

Public health reviews

Alcohol and alcohol-related harm in China: policy changes needed

Policy &amp

practice

Removal of user fees no guarantee of universal health coverage: observations from Burkina Faso

The human qualities needed to complete the global eradication

Ethical considerations for vaccination programmes in acute humanitarian emergencies

Untapped potential of health impact assessment

Lessons from the field

Scale-up of a comprehensive harm reduction programme for people injecting opioids: lessons from north-eastern India

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Back cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

92-4-068988-5

OCLC:

863824616