Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 83, Number 6, June 2005, 401-480

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

Special focus: child and maternal health; No cry at birth; How Egypt halved its maternal mortality; Counting Caesareans in poor countries

EDITORIALS

Exclusion, inequity and health system development: the critical emphases for maternal, neonatal and child health
- Andrew Green & Nancy Gerein

Strengthening district health systems
- Marcel Tanner

Regional associations of medical journal editors: moving from rhetoric to reality
- Farrokh Habibzadeh

NEWS

News

In focus: Tsunami wreaks mental health havoc

WHO News

Fighting chronic disease; Recent news from WHO

RESEARCH

Intrapartum stillbirths and relation neonatal deaths
- Joy Lawn, Kenji Shibuya, & Claudia Stein

Infant feeding patterns and risks of death
- Rajiv Bahl et al.

Pneumonia in children in Fiji
- H.C. Magree et al.

Performance and cost of an STI intervention in Cambodia
- Verena Carrara et al.

Estimating the burden of depression
- Michelle E. Kruijshaar et al.

Reliability of data on caesarean sections
- Cynthia K. Stanton et al.

Costs of hepatitis B vaccine in a prefilled syringe in Indonesia
- Carol E. Levin et al.

POLICY & PRACTICE

Maternal mortality rates in Egypt
- Oona Campbell et al.

Coupling health and strategic environmental assessments: the next step?
- John Wright, Jayne Parry, & Edward Scully

BOOKS AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Protecting the future: HIV prevention, care and support among displaced and war-affected populations
- Gael Lescornec
Empowering squatter citizen: local government, civil society, and urban poverty reduction
- Jorge L. Karol
Marijuana and madness
- Christopher Tennant

LETTERS

Making systematic reviews more useful for policy-makers
- Russell L Gruen et al.

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SAGE: requests for nominations

The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) is the principal advisory group to WHO for vaccines and immunization. WHO is soliciting nominations for experts from the African, Eastern Mediterranean, European and Western Pacific regions.

Nominations should be submitted no later than 28 June 2013, following the instructions provided at: http://www.who.int/immunization/sage_nominations