Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 90, Number 8, August 2012, 557-632

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

In this month's Bulletin
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.000812

EDITORIALS

Trans-disciplinary research to improve health systems’ disaster readiness and response
- Samantha Watson et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.106120

Performance-based financing in low- and middle-income countries: still more questions than answers
- Atle Fretheim et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.106468

NEWS

Public health round-up

New drugs from ancient texts

Screening the genes

Counting the cost of calories

RESEARCH

Sentinel versus population-based surveillance of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine effectiveness
- Lee M Hampton et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.098178

Regional disparities in the burden of disease attributable to unsafe water and poor sanitation in China
- Elizabeth J Carlton et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.098343

International shortfall inequality in life expectancy in women and in men, 1950–2010
- Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.097378

Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of combination antiretroviral therapy for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Uganda
- Andreas Kuznik et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.095430

SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS

A systematic review of Demographic and Health Surveys: data availability and utilization for research
- Madeleine Short Fabic et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.095513

Effects of condom social marketing on condom use in developing countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 1990–2010
- Michael D Sweat et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.094268

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

Achieving high coverage in Rwanda's national human papillomavirus vaccination programme
- Agnes Binagwaho et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.097253

PERSPECTIVES

The voice of the most vulnerable: lessons from the nuclear crisis in Fukushima, Japan
- A Sugimoto et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.094474

The role of biomedical engineering in disaster management in resource-limited settings
- Andrea Fernandes & Muhammad H Zaman
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.104901

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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