Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 90, Number 1, January 2012, 1-74

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

In this month’s Bulletin
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.000112

EDITORIALS

Noncommunicable diseases and post-conflict countries
- Bayard Roberts et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.098863

Prioritizing professional practice models for nurses in low-income countries
- Njoki Ng’ang’a & Mary Woods Byrne
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.097659

NEWS

Public health round-up

Defusing the demographic “time-bomb” in Germany

Keeping health workers and facilities safe in war

Arab health professionals hold key to future

RESEARCH

Incidence of influenza-like illness and severe acute respiratory infection during three influenza seasons in Bangladesh, 2008–2010
- Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.090209

Availability of data for monitoring noncommunicable disease risk factors in India
- Magdalena Z Raban et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.091041

Factors influencing rising caesarean section rates in China between 1988 and 2008
- Xing Lin Feng et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.090399

From pesticides to medicinal drugs: time series analyses of methods of self-harm in Sri Lanka
- Varuni A de Silva et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.091785

Service availability and utilization and treatment gap for schizophrenic disorders: a survey in 50 low- and middle-income countries
- Antonio Lora et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.089284

POLICY & PRACTICE

Health research systems: promoting health equity or economic competitiveness?
- Bridget Pratt & Bebe Loff
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.092007

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

Eliminating the category II retreatment regimen from national tuberculosis programme guidelines: the Georgian experience
- Jennifer Furin et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.092320

ROUND TABLE

Global Fund collusion with liquor giant is a clear conflict of interest
- Richard Matzopoulos et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.091413

Response from the Global Fund
- Victor Bampoe et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.096990

Global Fund needs to address conflict of interest
- Anna B Gilmore & Gary Fooks
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.098442

PERSPECTIVES

Collaboration to optimize dietary intakes of salt and iodine: a critical but overlooked public health issue
- Norm Campbell et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.092080

GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Guidelines for contributors
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.990112

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