Research

23 March, 2006

WHO Special Bulletin on Global Public Health And International Law

Table of Contents: Volume 80 (12) 2002

Special theme issue: Global Public Health and International Law

 To download bulletin go to http://www.who.int/bulletin/archives/volume80_12/en/index.html

In this month’s Bulletin

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Global rules for health; Fighting fat; Genetically engineered people; Organic pollutants

 

Editorials

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International law and public health—Allyn L. Taylor & Douglas W. Bettcher
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The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control—Luiz Felipe de Seixas Corrêa
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Public health in international law: the contribution of the World Summit on Sustainable Development—Katharina Kummer Peiry

Research

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Supplementary feeding in the prevention of mild-to-moderate wasting—Juan A. Rivera & Jean-Pierre Habicht et al.
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Physical activity in China—Gang Hu et al.

Policy & Practice

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HIV voluntary testing and TB control—Peter Godfrey-Fuassett et al.
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International law and communicable diseases—Obijiofor Aginam
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The epidemic of noncommunicable diseases—Mickey Chopra et al.
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Biomedicine and human rights—Robert Andorno
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International law, human rights and HIV/AIDS—David Patterson & Leslie London
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International environmental law and global public health—Yasmin von Schirnding et al.
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International health law and the WHO—Allyn L. Taylor

Public Health Classic

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The Preamble of the Constitution of the World Health Organization.
Commentary by Frank P. Grad

 

Books & Electronic Media

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Genomics and world health; Redesigning humans — our inevitable genetic future

 

Letters

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How objective are the supporters of the Haemoglobin Colour Scale?; Further clarity on vaccine-associated paralytic polio

 

News

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Underweight the main cause of ill-health; five causes account for 28% of all DALYs; Africa’s largest measles vaccination campaign could reduce childhood mortality by 20%; Reflectors could reduce road deaths ninefold, says Global Forum for Health Research

 

WHO News

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Risk reduction can add 5—10 years to healthy life expectancy; WHO and UNICEF focus on eradicating polio in West Africa; Agencies sound the alarm for new strain of meningitis in Africa; Prize goes to authors of Public Health Classic

 

Index

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Subject Index
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Author Index