Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 86, Number 1, January 2008, 1-80

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

WHO anniversary commemorative volume; Birthday series; Tuberculosis advances; Making primary health care work; Misguided gifts; Brain drain; Health care with your loan?; Managing scarcity; Vaccination costs; HIV transmission; An eye on refractive errors

EDITORIALS

Flowing away: water and health opportunities
- Jamie Bartram
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049619

Three decades of primary health care: reviewing the past and defining the future
- Suwit Wibulpolprasert et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049239

Breaking a law: tuberculosis disobeys Styblo’s rule
- Christopher Dye
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049510

NEWS

Thailand’s unsung heroes

The Bulletin turns 60: the early years

Health-care provision meets microcredit finance in Argentina

An interview with Mahmuder Rahman Bangladesh’s arsenic agony

Recent news from WHO

RESEARCH

Global costs of attaining the Millennium Development Goal for water supply and sanitation
- Guy Hutton & Jamie Bartram
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.046045

Prevalence of tuberculous infection and incidence of tuberculosis; a re-assessment of the Styblo rule
- F van Leth et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.037804

Estimating the costs of achieving the WHO–UNICEF Global Immunization Vision and Strategy, 2006–2015
- Lara J Wolfson et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045096

High-end physician migration from India
- Manas Kaushik et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.041681

How much is not enough? Human resources requirements for primary health care: a case study from South Africa
- Emmanuelle Daviaud & Mickey Chopra
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042283

Beyond good intentions: lessons on equipment donation from an African hospital
- Stephen RC Howie et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042994

POLICY AND PRACTICE

Monitoring effectiveness of programmes to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in lower-income countries
- Elizabeth M Stringer et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.043117

Global magnitude of visual impairment caused by uncorrected refractive errors in 2004
- Serge Resnikoff et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.041210

Increasing tuberculosis case detection: lessons from the Republic of Moldova
- Viorel Soltan et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.038265

BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine: policy and public health perspectives
- Charlie Changli Xue
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.046458

Ethics, prevention and public health
- Reiner Banken
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.047043

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