Volume 83, Number 8, August 2005, 561-640

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

Special Theme: health information systems; Gauging a response to humanitarian emergencies; Good data is vital for poverty reduction
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EDITORIALS

▲ Structuring information systems to improve health
- Sally Stansfield
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▲ Access to health information systems
- Kimberlyn M. McGrail & Charlyn Black
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▲ Building health information systems in the context of national strategies for the development of statistics
- Tony Williams
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NEWS

News
In Focus: Countries need better information to receive development aid
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WHO News
Getting the numbers right: an interview with Ties Boerma; New report focuses on health in a “borderless world”
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RESEARCH

▲ Costs and results of information systems
- Vanessa Rommelmann et al.
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POLICY & PRACTICE

▲ Health information systems: the foundations of public health
- Carla AbouZahr & Ties Boerma
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 181kb] | pdf with Arabic summary [pdf 436kb]

▲ Health information systems in humanitarian emergencies
- Michel Thieren
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▲ Harmonizing information systems
- Sarah B. Macfarlane
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 260kb] | pdf with Arabic summary [pdf 699kb]

▲ Health information systems and equity challenges
- L. Bambas Nolen et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 265kb] | pdf with Arabic summary [pdf 659kb]

▲ Database for possible vaccine-related events
- The Vaccine Safety Datalink Group
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▲ Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy
- Philip W. Setel et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 216kb] | pdf with Arabic summary [pdf 618kb]

▲ Evaluating cause-of-death statistics in China
- Alan D. Lopez et al.
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Emergency medical systems in low- and middle-income countries
- Olive C. Kobusingye et al.
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ROUND TABLE

▲ Developing an essential data set for health information
- Vincent Shaw

Commentaries: Richard Cibulskis; Jens Byskov; Jorn Braa; Sam Adjei
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BOOKS AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Building better health: a handbook of behavioural change
- Mickey Chopra
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Acknowledgement: Carla AbouZahr, in collaboration with Ramesh Shademani, coordinated the special theme.

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