Other Titles

Highlights • Lessons from a decade of emerging diseases • Chronic disease management in the South-East Asia Region • Monitoring medicines use to support policy development and implementation

Contents

ContentsEditorialLessons from a decade of emerging diseases: towards regional public health securityRichard Brown......................................................................................................................................................................... 77PerspectiveChronic disease management in the South‑East Asia Region: a need to do moreJayendra Sharma..................................................................................................................................................................... 79Original ResearchPrevalence and predictors of hypertension among residents aged 20–59 years of aslum-resettlement colony in Delhi, IndiaSanjeet Panesar, Sanjay Chaturvedi, N. K. Saini, Rajnish Avasthi, Abhishek Singh..................................................................... 83Risk factors for nonfatal drowning in children in rural Bangladesh: a community-basedcase–control studySyed AHM Abdullah, Meerjady S. Flora.................................................................................................................................... 88Choice of health-care facility after introduction of free essential health services in NepalRajendra Karkee, Jhalka Kadariya............................................................................................................................................ 96Haemophilus influenza type b disease and vaccination in India: knowledge, attitude andpractices of paediatriciansVipin M. Vashishtha, Vishal Dogra, Panna Choudhury, Naveen Thacker, Sailesh G. Gupta, Satish K. Gupta.............................. 101Health workforce in India: assessment of availability, production and distributionIndrajit Hazarika................................................................................................................................................................... 106Report from the FieldMonitoring medicines use to support national medicines policy development andimplementation in the Asia Pacific regionElizabeth E. Roughead, Karma Lhazeen, Engko Socialine, Salmah Bahri, Byong Joo Park, Kathleen Holloway......................... 113National policies for safety of medicines in the Asia Pacific regionSocorro Escalante, John McEwen............................................................................................................................................ 118Policy and PracticePrevention of vertical transmission of HIV in India through service integration: lessons fromMysore District, KarnatakaK. S. Nair, L. L. K. Piang, V. K. Tiwari, Sherin Raj, Deoki Nandan............................................................................................ 121Recent WHO PublicationsA decade of public health achievements in WHO’s South‑East Asia Region.................................................... 128Tsunami 2004: a comprehensive Analysis, Volume 1 and Volume 128

ISSN

2224-3151

Language

English