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Volume 86: 2008

:: Number 11, November 2008, pages 817-908
Special theme issue: health financing; WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Primary health care; Formula funding; Health promotion; Barriers to reform; Solidarity gains; Ready for change; Priority health care; Devolution for health; Big steps; Public-private divide; Fragmented systems; Out-of-pocket payments; Roundtable discussion: proposed strategies for African countries to reduce their dependence on aid; Public health classic: government financing of health care; User fees; Taxes and aid; Risks of receiving aid; Universal coverage; Debt relief and health.

:: Number 10, October 2008, pages 737-816
WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Paying more attention to adolescents in Mexico; Adapting to changing times; Home visits help babies survive; Poisoning by cough syrup; International recruitment of health workers; Surgical treatment of morbid obesity; Technology changes the answers; Khat chewing in Yemen; Estimating the global extent of human herpesvirus 2 infections; Poverty reduction stalled.

:: Number 9, September 2008, pages 657-736
WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Google Earth™ solution for disease management; Preventing further suicide attempts; Groundbreaking approach to disaster; HIV declines among pregnant women; Why reforms fell short; Good outcomes for scaled-up antiretroviral treatment; Clarifying causes of death; Call for improved safety in male circumcision; History of the Bulletin; Diarrhoea in developing countries; International suicide patterns.

:: Number 8, August 2008 pages 577-656
Special theme issue: ethics and public health; WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Primary health care; Religion and science; Positive policy change; Denaturalizing scarcity; Migrant health; Many barriers to treatment; Ethics versus economics; A human rights approach; Ethics and technology; Ethical oversight needed; A personalist approach; Guidelines for herbal medicine research; Emerging epidemics; Time to revisit surgery; Health sector needs to support abused women.

:: Number 7, July 2008 pages 497-576
WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Deadly dairy subsidies; Estimating cancer survival rates; G8 and health; Treating schizophrenia in low-resource settings; Intimate femicide-suicide; Integration and cooperation; Early loss programme for HIV-infected patients; Translating knowledge into practice; Future demand and supply; Finance for tuberculosis.

:: Number 6, June 2008 pages 417-496
WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Making progress in AIDS treatment; A standard for world mental health; Combining infant vaccines; Measuring antiretroviral therapy success in low-resource settings; Using national immunization day to monitor children's health; Primary health care: back to basics; Improving newborn survival rates; A case for screening; Access for all; Trends in stillbirth.

:: Number 5, May 2008 pages 321-416
Special theme issue: prevention and control of childhood pneumonia; WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Primary health care revolution; Number one killer; Twenty years’ experience; Seeking care too late; Making oxygen available; A lethal combination; Who is at risk and why?; Is the vaccine safe?; Case management at tipping point; Nutrition and pneumonia; Vaccines improve child survival; Antibiotics, oxygen and training; Indoor air pollution; Advances increase inequity.

:: Number 4, April 2008 pages 241-320
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.

:: Number 3, March 2008 pages 161-240
WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; International Health Regulations; Immunization savings; The methadone fix; Towards elimination of measles; Rise in dengue fever; Treatment turmoil; Stillbirth linked to arsenic; A broken dream; Japanese encephalitis surveillance; Breast may still be best; Global equity in renal replacement therapy; Acute pesticide poisoning.

:: Number 2, February 2008 pages 81-160
WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Measuring the trauma burden; Resistance to change; Politics and the ashtray; Outcomes and coverage of vaccination; Care and treatment of sick children; Vicious cycles - the cycle of poverty and poor health; Eye on public health: satellite technology; Why are we prone to disease?; A snapshot of maternal health worldwide; Catching cases: rheumatic heart disease.

:: Number 1, January 2008 pages 1-80
WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Bulletin: the early years; Tuberculosis advances; Making primary health care work; Misguided gifts; Brain drain in India; Microcredit banks in Argentina; Optimizing staff resources in South Africa.


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