Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Voir page 304 le resume en francais. En la pagina 305 figura un resumen en espanol. Introduction Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) constitute a major health problem for women worldwide, especially adolescents, among whom Chlamydia trachomatis...

Voir page 293 le resume en francais. En la pagina 294 figura un resumen en espanol. Introduction On 24 October 1998, the Atlantic tropical storm Mitch was upgraded to a hurricane that quickly developed into one of the strongest and most damaging...

HUMAN experimentation since World War II has created some difficult problems with the increasing employment of patients as-experimental subjects when it must be apparent that they would not have been available if they had been truly aware of the uses...

Voir page 364 le resume en francais. En la pagina 364 figura un resumen en espanol. Introduction The concept of international trade in services is relatively new. Unlike the bulk of agricultural and industrial production, services have long been...

Voir page 319 le resume en francais. En la pagina 319 figura un resumen en espanol. Introduction Arguably the greatest threat to the availability of affordable and appropriate medicine for people of low income is the rise of bacterial resistance...

Voir page 286 le resume en francais. En la pagina 286 figura un resumen en espanol. Background Considerable efforts have been made to compare the benefits of providing increased quantities of water to impoverished populations with providing better...

Voir page 311 le resume en francais. En la pagina 311 figura un resumen en espanol. Introduction The largest share of the estimated total number of cases of leprosy, a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, which essentially...

Voir page 299 le resume en francais. En la pagina 300 figura un resumen en espanol. Introduction Supplemental measles vaccination campaigns are a key component of the WHO strategy to eliminate measles. In the Americas most countries have successfully...

Editor -- The relationship between the intensity of malaria transmission and the degree of malaria risk was discussed recently in the Bulletin's theme section on malaria (1). In their study in the Lancet of hospital admissions in Kenya and the Gambia,...

Voir page 342 le resume en francais. En la pagina 342 figura un resumen en espanol. Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important public health issues worldwide. It is thought that in the 1990s there were 90 million new cases of...

The United States' health care system fails to deliver consistent, high-quality health care to its citizens, and without a major overhaul the problem will continue, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the US National Academies....