Volume 84, Number 4, April 2006, 257-336

Emergency child care; Self-violence; and self-poisoning in Sri Lanka; AIDS in China, brand RED; TB in Russian prisons; Estimating mortality; Treating HIV-positive children with pneumonia; Scaling up treatment for HIV/AIDS in Malawi; World health report: action into words?

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Improving the quality of emergency care for children in developing countries
- Carolyn Maclennan, Severin von Xylander, & Martin W Weber

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• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.030379
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How quality improvement in health care can help to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
- Anselm Schneider

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• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.031385
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Suicide, suicide attempts and pesticides: a major hidden public health problem
- José M Bertolote et al.

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• doi:10.2471/BLT.06.030668
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News

China’s pragmatic approach to AIDS; New fund-raising scheme fuses profit with philanthropy; Tough measures in Russian prisons slow spread of TB

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• TB in Russian prisons story [HTML]
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WHO News

Bulletin interview: Tackling social factors to improve health - Interview with Professor Sir Michael Marmot; Recent news from WHO

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Severe pneumonia in HIV-positive children
- Prakash Jeena et al.

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• doi:10.2471/BLT.04.015222
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Self-poisoning and hospital transfers in Sri Lanka
- Michael Eddleston et al.

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Maternal deaths in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
- Natalia A Gurina et al.

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Cluster versus systematic survey for estimating retrospective mortality
- Angela MC Rose et al.

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A method for deriving leading causes of death
- Roberto Becker et al.

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• doi:10.2471/BLT.05.028670
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Using STEPS to study risk factors in rural Indonesia
- Nawi Ng et al.

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• doi:10.2471/BLT.05.023721
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Improving emergency care for children
- Elizabeth Molyneux, Shafique Ahmad, & Ann Robertson

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Nationwide scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in Malawi
- Edwin Libamba et al.

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• doi:10.2471/BLT.05.023952
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Debating and discussing the 2005 World health report
- David C McCoy
Commentaries: Elizabeth Mason; Thomson Prentice

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• doi:10.2471/BLT.05.024448
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Reducing the stigma of mental illness: a report from a Global Programme of the World Psychiatric Association
- Mitchell G Weiss
Obesity prevention and public health
- Robert Beaglehole

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Composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) classification: is it more useful?
- Amiya Kumar Bhattacharyya
Clinical trial registry initiative
- Laurence J Hirsch
Dual job holding by public-sector professionals may be beneficial to patients
- Adamson S Muula

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