Norway: treaty bans cluster munitions; Israel: health effects of immigration; Islamic Republic of Iran: do lifestyle interventions work?; France: first a discovery, now a dream for a cure; Bangladesh: assessing neonatal illness; Mali: reducing maternal mortality; Thailand: building research capacity; India: are two coders better than one?; Democratic Republic of the Congo: quantifying the crisis; Australia: call for broader criteria for measles elimination; Financial crisis; Safe abortion from mid-level providers; In recognition of WHO’s drive to revitalize primary health care, each month’s cover of the Bulletin this year will feature a photo illustrating one of the six building blocks of health systems:
- Service delivery
- Health workforce
- Health information systems
- Medical products and technologies
- Financing systems
- Leadership and governance.
Noncommunicable disease mortality and life expectancy in immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union: country of origin compared with host country - Jördis Jennifer Ott et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045138
Improved access to comprehensive emergency obstetric care and its effect on institutional maternal mortality in rural Mali - Pierre Fournier et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.047076
Do lifestyle interventions work in developing countries? Findings from the Isfahan Healthy Heart Program in the Islamic Republic of Iran - Nizal Sarrafzadegan et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049841
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.
