Volume 83, Number 11, November 2005, 801-880

Alcohol use in India and the Russian Federation; How to define “drowning”; More can be done to prevent heart attacks and stroke in developing countries; Public Health Classic: The Public Health Act of 1848

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Calling a spade a spade: Meaningful definitions of health conditions
- Bedirhan T. Üstün & Robert Jakob

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Breaking the vicious circle of determinants and consequences of harmful alcohol use
- Vladimir Poznyak, Benedetto Saraceno, & Isidore S. Obot

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News

Getting health care to vulnerable communities; Fighting genital mutilation in Sierra Leone; Can a new UN emergency fund help southern Africa?

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• Genital mutilation story [HTML]
• UN emergency fund story [HTML]
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WHO News

Poor countries need help to fight bird flu - Interview with Shigeru Omi; WHO assists with relief efforts in south Asia; Recent news from WHO

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Alcohol related mortality in Russia
- Amanda Nicholson et al.

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WHO-PREMISE
- Shanthi Mendis et al.

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Socioeconomic markers in predicting alcohol consumption
- S.V. Subramanian et al.

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Infant mortality in Iran
- Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor et al.

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Willingness to pay for combination treatments for malaria in Tanzania
- Virginia Wiseman et al.

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A new definition of drowning
- E.F. van Beeck et al.

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Treatment of tuberculosis
- P. Onyebujoh et al.

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The public health act of 1848

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Commentary: The public health act of 1848
- Elizabeth Fee

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Latrines and agriculture
- Peter Kjær Jensen et al.

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Public health, ethics, and equity
- James Dwyer
AIDS in Asia
- Beena Varghese
The Millennium Development Goals for Health: rising to the challenges
- Brenda Killen

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Exclusive Breastfeeding Recommendation Unchanged
- Jay Ross & Ellen Piwoz
Exclusive breastfeeding and postnatal transmission of HIV
- JP Dadhich
Infant feeding in the context of HIV-positive mothers
- George Kent
Exclusive and predominant breastfeeding — Authors' reply
- Betty Kirkwood, Rajiv Bahl, Jose Martines

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