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This month’s cover poster is devoted to the importance of skilled birth attendants and improving child and maternal mortality. Seven items are devoted to this subject:
In two editorials, Cynthia Stanton examines who should assist women in childbirth, what midwives should be permitted to do and where births should take place, while Dileep Mavalankar et al. suggest that political and administrative reasons, rather than lack of technical knowledge, account for India’s high maternal mortality.
Theresa Braine reports from Mexico on how midwives are making a comeback across Latin America. Joy Lawn tells the Bulletin in an interview why it takes more than money to improve newborn survival.
Iqbal Anwar et al. highlight the high levels of inequity in maternal care in Bangladesh and recommend a greater focus on overcoming financial barriers for poorer women.
Rosamund F Lewis et al. attest to the effectiveness of the Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccine in Uganda, which now prevents 5000 child deaths each year. Jonathan M Spector & Subhash Daga suggest that high stillbirth rates may be due to inadequate resuscitation of perinatal asphyxia cases.
Claudia Jurberg reports from Brazil on how primary health care, a key part of the country’s revamped public health system, has brought quality health care to millions.
Danielle B Clucas et al. study the need for proactive prevention and treatment of infectious diseases among Aboriginal children in northern Australia Jonathan Dart reports from the Northern Territory of Australia on how the new Labor government aims to improve Aboriginal health by tackling the social problems undermining their communities.
Research by R Leon Ochiai et al. helps to determine the diverse typhoid fever vaccination needs for different geographical areas and age groups in Asia. Mohammed A Tag-Eldin et al. study the prevalence of female genital mutilation among schoolgirls in Egypt and their attitudes to the practice.
Rhoda K Wanyenze et al. demonstrate that routine HIV testing and counselling is useful and well received in Uganda. Simon D Makombe et al. conduct the first audit on the reliability of data compiled under the national antiretroviral treatment programme in Malawi to track HIV patients.
Ellen Van de Poel et al. use the new WHO child growth standards in a broad study of child malnutrition and socioeconomic inequality in the developing world.
On the 40th anniversary of the publication of Wilson & Jungner’s Principles and practice of screening for disease, Anne Andermann et al., in the Public health classic, examine the evolution of the original screening criteria as it reflects scientific and social trends.
Volume 86, Number 4, April 2008, 241-320
IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN
WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Best of both worlds; Why do so many women die?; Typhoid fever; Reaching out to the poor; Female genital mutilation; Inequity in maternal health-care; Routine HIV testing in hospitals; Action for child survival; Tracking HIV patients; High disease burden in remote Aboriginal communities; Malnutrition in developing countries; Perinatal asphyxia; Screening 40 years on
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EDITORIALS
Steps towards achieving skilled attendance at birth
- Cynthia Stanton
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052928
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Achieving Millennium Development Goal 5: is India serious?
- Dileep Mavalankar et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048454
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NEWS
Mexico’s midwives enter the mainstream
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Australia’s disturbing health disparities set Aboriginals apart
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Flawed but fair: Brazil’s health system reaches out to the poor
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An interview with Joy Lawn: Hidden deaths of the world’s newborn babies
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Recent news from WHO
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RESEARCH
Inequity in maternal health-care services: evidence from home-based skilled-birth-attendant programmes in Bangladesh
- I Anwar et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042754
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A study of typhoid fever in five Asian countries: disease burden and implications for controls
- R Leon Ochiai et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.039818
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Prevalence of female genital cutting among Egyptian girls
- Mohammed A Tag-Eldin et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042093
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Disease burden and health-care clinic attendances for young children in remote Aboriginal communities of northern Australia
- Danielle B Clucas et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.043034
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Socioeconomic inequality in malnutrition in developing countries
- Ellen Van de Poel et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044800
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Action for child survival: elimination of Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis in Uganda
- Rosamund F Lewis et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045336
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Acceptability of routine HIV counselling and testing, and HIV seroprevalence in Ugandan hospitals
- Rhoda K Wanyenze et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042580
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LESSONS FROM THE FIELD
Assessing the quality of data aggregated by antiretroviral treatment clinics in Malawi
- Simon D Makombe et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044685
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PERSPECTIVE
Preventing those so-called stillbirths
- Jonathan M Spector & Subhash Daga
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049924
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PUBLIC HEALTH CLASSICS
Revisiting Wilson and Jungner in the genomic age: a review of screening criteria over the past 40 years
- Anne Andermann et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050112
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BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Screening: evidence and practice
- Anthony Miller
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048744
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LETTERS
Defeating dengue: new mosquito genome, old promise?
- Thomas C Erren & Michael Erren
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051003
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