{"title":"AIDS in Africa.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77465,"journal":{"name":"World health forum","volume":"19 2","pages":"214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20571284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lessons from a courageous dying patient.","authors":"B R Saab, M Seoud","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The atypical reaction of a patient to the news of her terminal illness raises a number of questions about care for the dying.</p>","PeriodicalId":77465,"journal":{"name":"World health forum","volume":"19 3","pages":"324-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20697695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More crops, more disease?","authors":"M Gomes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The intensity of disease transmission by insect vectors may be influenced by developments in agriculture and forestry. The author illustrates what can happen with special reference to projects in Thailand and Ethiopia which increased the incidence of malaria, and to the introduction of a new variety of coffee in Colombia, as a result of which the incidence of leishmaniasis among plantation workers decreased. Development programmes need to take predictable disease outcomes fully into account.</p>","PeriodicalId":77465,"journal":{"name":"World health forum","volume":"19 3","pages":"274-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20699120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WHO in the 1970s and 1980s--a user's view.","authors":"R Karim","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author reflects on 24 years of involvement in WHO activities, and their effect on her own life and on the maternal and child health services in Malaysia.</p>","PeriodicalId":77465,"journal":{"name":"World health forum","volume":"19 4","pages":"365-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20923892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Food safety in international trade.","authors":"K Miyagishima, F K Käferstein","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>International approaches are indispensable in the management of foodborne risks to health. The contributions made by WHO and the World Trade Organization to achieving food safety are discussed below, and particular reference is made to the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and to the work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission.</p>","PeriodicalId":77465,"journal":{"name":"World health forum","volume":"19 4","pages":"407-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20924497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exporting hazards to developing countries.","authors":"D B Menkes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The health of people in developing countries is threatened by the importation of hazardous products, wastes and industrial processes from the developed world. Combating this menace is a facet of environmental protection and management of the planet's resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":77465,"journal":{"name":"World health forum","volume":"19 4","pages":"412-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20924500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R Dickson, D Abdullahi, W Flores, J Lane, B Marchand, J Mwenda, H Simpson, P Garner
{"title":"Putting evidence into practice.","authors":"R Dickson, D Abdullahi, W Flores, J Lane, B Marchand, J Mwenda, H Simpson, P Garner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A training module is described in which experienced health care managers from developing countries explore the challenges to be faced when attempting to use the results of systematic reviews of scientific studies on health care interventions in policy and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":77465,"journal":{"name":"World health forum","volume":"19 3","pages":"311-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20699129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WHO and health planning--the past, the present and the future.","authors":"S A Sapirie","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77465,"journal":{"name":"World health forum","volume":"19 4","pages":"382-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20923899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maternal and child health in the 1950s and 1960s.","authors":"E Barton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77465,"journal":{"name":"World health forum","volume":"19 4","pages":"436-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20924507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What health for whom? A challenge for epidemiology.","authors":"R Saracci","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ideal of universal access to the best possible health is being replaced by questions of how best to distribute limited health resources. Epidemiology can help to answer these questions by combining its functions of investigation and target-setting. Thus studies on health differences should be aimed at reducing unjust inequalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":77465,"journal":{"name":"World health forum","volume":"19 1","pages":"3-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20529974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}