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The Selection and
Use of Essential Medicines
[ISBN 92 4 120914 4/Sw.fr.23.-/US $ 20.70]
This report presents the recommendations of the WHO Expert
Committee responsible for updating the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines.
The first part contains an update on the revised procedures for updating the
Model List and the development of the WHO Essential Medicines Library. It
continues to present a summary of the Committee’s considerations and
justifications for additions and changes to the 12th Model List, including
its recommendation to add ten antiretroviral medicines. The annexes include
the 12th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines in its usual presentation and,
for the first time, in the five-level Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC)
classification system.
The Injury Chartbook
ISBN 92 4 156220 X; SW.fr.30.-/ US $ 27} and
Injury: A Leading
Cause of the Global Burden of Disease, 2000
ISBN 92 4 156232 3; Sw.fr.25.-/ US
22.50.}
Both of these publications highlight that injuries kill
more than 5 million people worldwide each year, accounting for nearly 1 of
every 10 deaths globally. In addition, tens of millions of people visit
emergency departments annually due to injury. Whether they are unintentional
-- resulting from incidents such as road traffic collisions, drowning or
falls – or intentional – following an assault, suicide or war – related
violence – injuries affect people of all ages and economic groups.
Both publications reveal some striking findings on the
nature and extent of death and illness as a result of injury. In addition to
the considerable number of deaths, millions more are wounded or suffer other
non–fatal health consequences due to injuries. The magnitude of the problem
varies considerably by age, sex, religion and income
group.
World Report on
Road Traffic Injury Prevention [ISBN 92 4 156260 9; Sw.fr.30.- / US$ 27-]
The World Health Organization and the World Bank have
jointly produced this report. Its purpose is to present a comprehensive
overview of what is known about the magnitude, risk factors and impact of
road traffic injuries, and about ways to prevent and lessen the impact of
road accidents. The report is the outcome of a collaborative effort by institutions
and individuals. Over 100 experts, from all continents and different sectors
– including transport, engineering, health, police, education and civil
society − have worked to produce the report.
Road traffic injuries are a growing public health issue,
disproportionately affecting vulnerable groups of road users, including the
poor. But road traffic accidents and injuries are preventable. Road traffic
injury prevention must be incorporated into a broad range of activities, such
as the development and management of road infrastructure, mobility planning,
the provision of health and hospital services, and urban and environmental planning.
The time to act is now. Road safety is no accident. It
requires strong political will and concerted, sustained efforts across a
range of sectors. Acting now will save lives.
Manual of Basic
Techniques for a Health Laboratory
[ISBN 92 4 154530 5; Sw.fr.50.-/US$ 45.]
This new edition of a very popular laboratory manual
published by WHO in the 1980s includes new procedures and technologies
developed since the previous edition that have proved useful to small
laboratories in developing countries, while some obsolete procedures have
been replaced by more up-to-date techniques. The manual provides a practical
guide to the safe and accurate performance of basic laboratory techniques.
Intended for use by laboratory technicians working in peripheral-level
laboratories in developing countries, the book emphasizes simple, economical
procedures that can yield accurate results where resources, including
equipment, are scarce and the climate is hot and humid.
The book is divided into three parts. The first describes
the setting-up of a peripheral health laboratory and general laboratory
procedures, including use of a microscope and laboratory balances,
centrifugation, measurement and dispensing of liquids, and cleaning,
disinfection and sterilization of laboratory equipment. The second part
describes techniques for examining different specimens for helminths, protozoa, bacteria and fungi. The third and
final part describes the examination of urine, cerebrospinal fluid and blood,
including techniques based on immunological and serological principles.
Numerous illustrations are used throughout the book to clarify the different
steps involved. A summary of the reagents required for the various techniques
and their preparation is provided in the annex.
Policy Tools for Allocative Efficiency of Health Services
[ISBN 92 4 156252 8; Sw.fr.20.- /
US $ 18.-]
Health care should be provided efficiently, given the
potential gains for patients and the population, and the high cost of some
kinds of care. Emphasizing the most cost-effective services can in principle
attain the greatest health gains. Policies are implemented through tools
available to policy-makers, particularly those in government who can
influence not only public expenditure and service delivery but also how private
insurers and providers allocate resources among diseases and individuals.
Policy Tools
reviews an enormous research literature and aims not only at what policies to
recommend but at what it takes to make them effective.
Attaining The
Millennium Development Goals In India: Role of Public Policy and Service
Delivery – World Bank
[Hardcopy available on loan at: SEARO Library]
Since the launch of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the Millennium Summit in New
York in September 2000, the MDGs
have become the most widely-accepted yardstick of development efforts by
governments, donors and NGOs. The MDGs are a set of
numerical and time-bound targets related to key achievements in human
development. They include halving income-poverty and hunger, achieving
universal primary education and gender equality, reducing infant and child
mortality by two-thirds and maternal mortality by three-quarters, reversing
the spread of HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases, and halving the proportion of
people without access to safe water. These targets are to be achieved by
2015, from their levels in 1990 (United Nations 2000).
This report focuses on the attainment of five major human
development related MDGs by sub-national units in
India – child and infant mortality, child malnutrition, schooling enrollment
and completion, gender disparities in schooling, and hunger-poverty (as
reflected by inadequate calorie intake).
This report concludes that while substantial progress
could be made by the poor states on increasing the rates of net primary
enrollment and primary completion, it will be challenging for them to attain
the education-related MDGs of 100% net primary
enrollment and 100% primary completion.
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