Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 86, Number 10, October 2008, 737-816

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Adapting to changing times; Home visits help babies survive; Paying more attention to adolescents; Poisoning by cough syrup; International recruitment of health workers; Surgical treatment of morbid obesity; Technology changes the answers; Turning over a new leaf; Estimating the global extent of human herpesvirus 2 infections; Poverty reduction stalled

EDITORIALS

Global trends in schistosomiasis control
- Myra Taylor
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.058669

WHO code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel
- Manuel Dayrit et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.058578

Recording patient responses in low-income countries: does the tool make a difference?
- Karen Cheng
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.054668

NEWS

News

Khat chewing in Yemen: turning over a new leaf

The French country doctor: caring for the sick through the centuries

Consensus during the Cold War: back to Alma-Ata

Primary health care comes full circle. An interview with Dr Halfdan Mahler.

Recent news from WHO

RESEARCH

Outbreak of acute renal failure in Panama in 2006: a case-control study
- E Danielle Rentz et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049965

Treatment of mental disorders for adolescents in Mexico City
- G Borges et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.047696

Is mass treatment the appropriate schistosomiasis elimination strategy?
- Veronica L Tallo et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.047563

Political and social context of not attaining the Millennium Development Goal to reduce poverty
- Marco Palma-Solís et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.040444

Two-year impact of single praziquantel treatment on infection in the national control programme on schistosomiasis in Burkina Faso
- Seydou Touré et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048694

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of safety and efficacy of combined praziquantel and artemether treatment for acute schistosomiasis japonica in China
- Xun-Ya Hou et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053041

Impact of an integrated nutrition and health programme on neonatal mortality in rural northern India
- Abdullah H Baqui et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042226

PUBLIC HEALTH REVIEWS

An estimate of the global prevalence and incidence of herpes simplex virus type 2 infection
- Katharine J Looker et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.046128

PERSPECTIVES

Morbid obesity in a developing country: the Chilean experience
- Claudia Bambs et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048785

BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Bioviolence: preventing biological terror and crime
- George P Schmid & Arnold F Kaufmann
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051888

Analysing health equity using household survey data: a guide to techniques and their implementation
- Ke Xu
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052357

LETTERS

Incidence of pneumonia is not reduced by pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
- Sona Chowdhary & Jacob Puliyel
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.054692

Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is efficacious and effective in reducing the burden of pneumonia
- Shabir A Madhi et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.056572

Withdrawing from the treatment does not mean from the study
- Erik Cobo et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.057737

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SAGE: requests for nominations

The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) is the principal advisory group to WHO for vaccines and immunization. WHO is soliciting nominations for experts from the African, Eastern Mediterranean, European and Western Pacific regions.

Nominations should be submitted no later than 28 June 2013, following the instructions provided at: http://www.who.int/immunization/sage_nominations