Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Bull. World Health Organ. · Jan 1986
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical TrialCitrate can effectively replace bicarbonate in oral rehydration salts for cholera and infantile diarrhoea.
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Bull. World Health Organ. · Jan 1986
The use of quantitative methods in planning national cancer control programmes. A WHO meeting.
There is a strong need to allocate in a rational and cost-effective way the available resources for cancer control in countries. Continuation of current priorities in resource allocation can only lead to unnecessarily high incidence, morbidity and mortality from cancer. Two cancer control models for cost-effectiveness, which were developed by WHO to help Member States set priorities in national cancer control programmes, have been tested and found useful. This article discusses cost-effectiveness analysis and describes the two models and their application in countries.
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Bull. World Health Organ. · Jan 1986
Comparative StudyAn international study on the serological differential diagnosis of human cystic and alveolar echinococcosis.
An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the serological differentiation of cystic (Echinococcus granulosus) and alveolar (E. multilocularis) echinococcosis in man has been evaluated. A discrimination rate of 95.1% was found for 82 sera from patients of geographically disparate endemic areas. This rate was essentially the same as that found for 57 Swiss patients, indicating that inter- and intraspecific strain differences do not influence the test results. The assay method is suitable for immunodiagnostic purposes as well as for seroepidemiological studies.