Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 86, Number 2, February 2008, 81-160

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Care and treatment of sick children; Measuring the trauma burden; Outcomes and coverage of vaccination; Resistance to change; Vicious cycles; Politics and the ashtray; Eye on public health; Why are we prone to disease?; A snapshot of maternal health worldwide; Catching cases.

EDITORIALS

Malaria eradication back on the table
- Marcel Tanner & Don de Savigny
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050633

What evolutionary biology offers public health
- Randolph M Nesse
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049601

Echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease
- Eloi Marijon et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.046680

NEWS

Getting health to rural communities in Bangladesh

Space technology: a new frontier for public health

Smoke alarm from Afghanistan to Morocco

An interview with Awa Marie Coll-Seck - Hopes and fears for malaria

RESEARCH

Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: a new delivery system and its effect on maternal health and pregnancy outcomes in Uganda
- A K Mbonye et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.041822

Cost-effectiveness of malaria diagnostic methods in sub-Saharan Africa in an era of combination therapy
- Samual Shillcutt et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042259

Individuals and population burdens of major trauma in the Netherlands
- Herman R Holtslag et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.033803

Comparison of rubella seroepidemiology in 17 countries: progress towards international disease control targets
- Anthony Nardone et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042010

Methodological considerations in implementing the WHO Global Survey for Monitoring Maternal and Perinatal Health
- Archana Shah et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.039842

Clinical assessment and treatment in paediatric wards in the north-east of the United Republic of Tanzania
- Hugh Reyburn et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.041723

POLICY AND PRACTICE

Vaccination greatly reduces disease, disability, death and inequity worldwide
- FE Andre et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.040089

Resistance to implementing policy change: the case of Ukraine
- Rifat Atun & Igor Olynik
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.034991

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

Optimizing paediatric HIV care in Kenya: challenges in early infant diagnosis
- Peter Cherutich et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.040402

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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