Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 89, Number 4, April 2011, 241-316

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

In this month’s Bulletin
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.000411

EDITORIALS

Complex systems analysis: towards holistic approaches to health systems planning and policy
- Babak Pourbohloul & Marie-Paule Kieny
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.087544

Opioid substitution therapy in resource-poor settings
- Michelle Kermode et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.086850

NEWS

Public health round-up

The happiness effect

Prevention is better than cure, say Romanian doctors

New WHO child growth standards catch on

RESEARCH

Does recession reduce global health aid? Evidence from 15 high-income countries, 1975–2007
- David Stuckler et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.080663

Low use of contraception among poor women in Africa: an equity issue
- Andreea A Creanga et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.083329

Global cost of child survival: estimates from country-level validation
- Liselore van Ekdom et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.081059

Exposing misclassified HIV/AIDS deaths in South Africa
- Jeanette Kurian Birnbaum et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.086280

Potential impact of single-risk-factor versus total risk management for the prevention of cardiovascular events in Seychelles
- Roger Ndindjock et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.082370

Should this event be notified to the World Health Organization? Reliability of the International Health Regulations notification assessment process
- Thomas Haustein et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.083154

Low infant mortality among Palestine refugees despite the odds
- Flavia Riccardo et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.082743

POLICY & PRACTICE

Translating evidence into policy in low-income countries: lessons from co-trimoxazole preventive therapy
- Eleanor Hutchinson et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.077743

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