Dear reader,
Highlights from the April 2014 issue:
· Why the lack of progress in preventing and treating anaemia in the childbearing year?
· Improving breastfeeding rates in Indonesia
· Interview: Ciro de Quadros, who led some of the world’s most successful immunization campaigns.
· Retaining the rural workforce in Timor-Leste
· How best to distribute anti-malarial bed nets in South Sudan
· Improving local cancer prevention, control and research in Guatemala
· Monitoring progress in fighting noncommunicable diseases in the Caribbean
· Improved water sources are not always safe
· A review of the evidence on mercury exposure from seafood
You can now read the Bulletin on a variety of different formats. The journal is now available on electronic publishing devices, Kindle readers and as a Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) digital talking book.
Complete list of contents for Volume 92, Number 4, April, 229-308.
Abstracts and other items are available in عربي, 中文, Français, Русский and Español.
Volume 92, Number 4, April 2014, 229-308
IN THIS MONTH´S BULLETIN
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.000414
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EDITORIALS
Human rabies in India: a problem needing more attention
Alakes Kumar Kole, Rammohan Roy & Dalia Chanda Kole
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.136044
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The lack of progress in reducing anaemia among women: the inconvenient truth
Francesco Branca, Lina Mahy & Thahira Shireen Mustafa
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.137810
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NEWS
Public health round-up
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.010414
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Indonesia’s breastfeeding challenge is echoed the world over
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.020414
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In the mood for wiping out vaccine-preventable diseases
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.030414
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RESEARCH
Effect of breastfeeding on immunogenicity of oral live-attenuated human rotavirus vaccine: a randomized trial in HIV-uninfected infants in Soweto, South Africa
Michelle J Groome, Sung-Sil Moon, Daniel Velasquez, Stephanie Jones, Anthonet Koen, Nadia van Niekerk, Baoming Jiang, Umesh D Parashar & Shabir A Madhi
doi: 10.2471/BLT.13.128066
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Bypassing primary care clinics for childbirth: a cross-sectional study in the Pwani region, United Republic of Tanzania
Margaret E Kruk, Sabrina Hermosilla, Elysia Larson & Godfrey M Mbaruku
doi: 10.2471/BLT.13.126417
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SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
Global methylmercury exposure from seafood consumption and risk of developmental neurotoxicity: a systematic review
Mary C Sheehan, Thomas A Burke, Ana Navas-Acien, Patrick N Breysse, John McGready & Mary A Fox
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.116152
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POLICY & PRACTICE
Monitoring compliance with high-level commitments in health: the case of the CARICOM Summit on Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases
T Alafia Samuels, John Kirton & Jenilee Guebert
doi: 10.2471/BLT.13.126128
Abstract [HTML] ¦ Article [HTML] ¦ Article pdf, 835kb ¦ DAISY zip, 71kb ¦ ePub, 2.31Mb ¦ Kindle, 2.32Mb
Retaining doctors in rural Timor-Leste: a critical appraisal of the opportunities and challenges
Augustine D Asante, Nelson Martins, Michael E Otim & John Dewdney
doi: 10.2471/BLT.13.123141
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Why “improved” water sources are not always safe
Ameer Shaheed, Jennifer Orgill, Maggie A Montgomery, Marc A Jeuland & Joe Brown
doi: 10.2471/BLT.13.119594
Abstract [HTML] ¦ Article [HTML] ¦ Article pdf, 899kb ¦ DAISY zip, 96kb ¦ ePub, 2.32Mb ¦ Kindle, 2.33Mb
LESSONS FROM THE FIELD
Scale-up of a programme for malaria vector control using long-lasting insecticide-treated nets: lessons from South Sudan
Emmanuel Chanda, Constantino D Remijo, Harriet Pasquale, Samson P Baba & Richard L Lako
doi: 10.2471/BLT.13.126862
Abstract [HTML] ¦ Article [HTML] ¦ Article pdf, 817kb ¦ DAISY zip, 37kb ¦ ePub, 2.40Mb ¦ Kindle, 2.40Mb
A training programme to build cancer research capacity in low- and middle-income countries: findings from Guatemala
Lauren D Arnold, Joaquin Barnoya, Eduardo N Gharzouzi, Peter Benson & Graham A Colditz
doi: 10.2471/BLT.13.126516
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Early response to the emergence of influenza A(H7N9) virus in humans in China: the central role of prompt information sharing and public communication
Sirenda Vong, Michael O’Leary & Zijian Feng
doi: 10.2471/BLT.13.125989
Abstract [HTML] ¦ Article [HTML] ¦ Article pdf, 817kb ¦ DAISY zip, 37kb ¦ ePub, 2.40Mb ¦ Kindle, 2.40Mb
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Fecha de publicación: 01/04/2014