Tabriz University of Medical Sciences

Highlights from the March 2015 issue:

•     The struggle to reduce maternal deaths in the USA

•     Interview: new UN special envoy on tuberculosis

•     Electronic drug procurement catches on

•     Child maltreatment estimates in China

•     Bringing rapid diagnostic malaria tests to market in Uganda

•     Chile embraces reciprocity in organ donation

•     Patient satisfaction with primary care services in 34 countries

You can now read the Bulletin on a variety of different formats. The journal is now available on electronic publishing devices, Kindle readers and as a Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) digital talking book.

 

Complete list of contents for Volume 93, Number 3, March, 133-208.

 

Abstracts and other items are available in عربي, 中文, Français, Русский and Español.

In this month’s Bulletin
doi: 10.2471/BLT.15.000315

Should the next South African census be register-based?
Sulaiman Bah
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.148502

Maternal mortality and morbidity in the United States of America
Priya Agrawal
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.148627

Public health round-up
doi: 10.2471/BLT.15.010315

E-procurement in support of universal health coverage
doi: 10.2471/BLT.15.020315

New UN envoy joins campaign to end TB
doi: 10.2471/BLT.15.030315

Introducing rapid diagnostic tests for malaria to drug shops in Uganda: a cluster-randomized controlled trial
Jessica Cohen, Günther Fink, Kathleen Maloney, Katrina Berg, Matthew Jordan, Theodore Svoronos, Flavia Aber & William Dickens
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.142489

Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis and antiretroviral therapy: an observational cohort study in China
Wei Cheng, Yasong Wu, Yi Wen, Ye Ma, Decai Zhao, Zhihui Dou, Weiwei Zhang, Marc Bulterys & Fujie Zhang
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.142745

Assessing the potential for improvement of primary care in 34 countries: a cross-sectional survey
Willemijn LA Schäfer, Wienke GW Boerma, Anna M Murante, Herman JM Sixma, François G Schellevis & Peter P Groenewegen
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.140368

Legislation coverage for child injury prevention in China
Li Li, Robert Scherpbier, Jing Wu, Xu Zhu, Wei Zhang, Lin Zhang, Xin Gao, Jiesi Luo & Guoqing Hu
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.139998

The burden of child maltreatment in China: a systematic review
Xiangming Fang, Deborah A Fry, Kai Ji, David Finkelhor, Jingqi Chen, Patricia Lannen & Michael P Dunne
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.140970

Participants’ understanding of informed consent in clinical trials over three decades: systematic review and meta-analysis
Nguyen Thanh Tam, Nguyen Tien Huy, Le Thi Bich Thoa, Nguyen Phuoc Long, Nguyen Thi Huyen Trang, Kenji Hirayama & Juntra Karbwang
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.141390

Increasing organ donation by presumed consent and allocation priority: Chile
Alejandra Zúñiga-Fajuri
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.139535

Big data in global health: improving health in low- and middle-income countries
Rosemary Wyber, Samuel Vaillancourt, William Perry, Priya Mannava, Temitope Folaranmi & Leo Anthony Celi
doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.139022