BULLETIN OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION -- APR 2013; MASTHEAD; In this month's Bulletin; Editorials; Preventing cryptosporidiosis: the need for safe drinking water; Arguments against the compulsory treatment of opioid dependence; News; Public health round-up; Nigerians wake up to high blood pressure; Research; Deployment of community health workers across rural sub-Saharan Africa: financial considerations and operational assumptions; Maternal health care utilization in Viet Nam: increasing ethnic inequity; Systematic reviews
The effectiveness of policies for reducing dietary trans fat: a systematic review of the evidencePublic health reviews; Alcohol and alcohol-related harm in China: policy changes needed; Policy & practice; Removal of user fees no guarantee of universal health coverage: observations from Burkina Faso; The human qualities needed to complete the global eradication; Ethical considerations for vaccination programmes in acute humanitarian emergencies; Untapped potential of health impact assessment; Lessons from the field
Scale-up of a comprehensive harm reduction programme for people injecting opioids: lessons from north-eastern IndiaJUST PUBLISHED!; Back cover
Summary
The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is an international journal of public health with a special focus on developing countries. Since it was first published in 1948 the Bulletin has become one of the world's leading public health journals. As the flagship periodical of the World Health Organization (WHO) the Bulletin draws on WHO experts as editorial advisers reviewers and authors as well as on external collaborators. In this month's issue: Preventing cryptosporidiosis: the need for safe drinking water; Arguments against the compulsory treatment of opioid dependence; Deployment of com