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Selective primary health care: an interim strategy for disease control in developing countries.
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A program of selective primary health care is compared with other approaches and suggested as the most cost-effective form of medical intervention in the least developed countries.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine. Part C: Medical Economics.The article was published on 1980-06-01. It has received 239 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Breast feeding & Cost effectiveness.read more
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The origins of primary health care and selective primary health care.
TL;DR: A historical study of the role played by the World Health Organization and UNICEF in the emergence and diffusion of the concept of primary health care during the late 1970s and early 1980s is presented.
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Healthy life expectancy in 191 countries, 1999.
TL;DR: The methods used to produce the first estimates of healthy life expectancy (DALE) for 191 countries in 1999 were described, suggesting that reductions in mortality are accompanied by reductions in disability.
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The burden of disease among the global poor
TL;DR: The authors' estimates are crude, but despite their limitations, they give a more accurate picture of changes in attributable mortality among the world's poor than do the global averages in current use.
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Integration of targeted health interventions into health systems: a conceptual framework for analysis
TL;DR: An analytical framework is presented which enables deconstruction of the term integration into multiple facets, each corresponding to a critical health system function, which enables systematic and holistic exploration of the extent to which different interventions are integrated in varied settings and the reasons for the variation.
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Strategies for reducing maternal mortality in developing countries: what can we learn from the history of the industrialized West?
TL;DR: Analysis of the conditions under which the industrialized world has reduced maternal mortality over the last 100 years finds reduction in developing countries today is hindered by limited awareness of the magnitude and manageability of the problem, and ill‐informed professionalization strategies focusing on antenatal care and training of traditional birth attendants.
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Interactions of nutrition and infection
TL;DR: Abrege d'un article publie dans «The American Journal of the Medical Sciences», 1959, vol 237, pp 367-403 as mentioned in this paper, was published in 1959.
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Interactions of nutrition and infection.
TL;DR: Abrege d'un article publie dans «The American Journal of the Medical Sciences», 1959, vol. 237, pp. 367-403 as mentioned in this paper was the first article published in the journal.
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The adverse effect of iron repletion on the course of certain infections.
TL;DR: Iron deficiency among Somali nomads may be part of an ecological compromise, permitting optimum co-survival of host and infecting agent during iron deficiency and during iron repletion.
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Interactions of nutrition and infection.
Nevin S. Scrimshaw,R M Suskind +1 more
TL;DR: Malnutrition can interfere with any body mechanism that acts as a barrier to the multiplication or progress of infectious agents This includes formation of specific antibodies, number and activity of phagocytes, integrity of skin, mucous membranes, and other tissues as mentioned in this paper.