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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787757103321

Titolo

Bulletin of WHO . Vol. 91 No. 09 2013. / / by World Health Organization

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : World Health Organization, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

92-4-068993-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (100 pages)

Disciplina

610.82

Soggetti

Public health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

BULLETIN OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION -  SEPTEMBER 2013 - Special theme: women's health beyond reproduction - a new agenda -- MASTHEAD -- In this month's Bulletin -- Editorials -- At the crossroads: transforming health systems to address women's health across the life course -- Rallying United Nations organizations int the fight against noncommunicable diseases -- News -- Public health round-up -- The breast cancer conundrum -- The new women's health agenda -- Research -- Global mortality trends and patterns in older women -- Cervical and female breast cancers in the Americas: current situation and opportunities for action -- Risk factors for noncommunicable chronic diseases in women in China: surveillance efforts -- A life-course perspective on physical functioning in women -- Systematic reviews -- Differences by sex in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus, impaired fasting glycaemia and impaired glucose tolerance in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis -- Policy &amp -- practice -- Why the time is right to tackle breast and cervical cancer in low-resource settings -- Lessons from the field -- Innovative public-private partnership: a diagonal approach to combating women's cancers in Africa -- Integration of comprehensive women's health programmes into health systems: cervical cancer prevention, care and control in Rwanda -- Perspectives -- Recommendations towards an integrated, life-course approach to women's health in the post-2015 agenda -- Sexual health in older women -- Accelerating action towards universal health coverage by



applying a gender lens -- Policy directions to improve women's health beyond reproduction -- Corrigendum -- JUST PUBLISHED! -- Back cover.

Sommario/riassunto

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: At the crossroads: transforming health systems to address women s health across the life course; Rallying United Nations organizations in the fight against noncommunicable diseases; Global mortality trends and patterns in older women; Cervical and female breast cancers in the Americas: current situation and opportunities for action; Risk factors for noncommunicable chronic diseases in women in China: surveillance efforts; A life-course perspective on physical functioning in women; Differences by sex in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus impaired fasting glycaemia and impaired glucose tolerance in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis; Why the time is right to tackle breast and cervical cancer in low-resource settings; Innovative public-private partnership: a diagonal approach to combating women s cancers in Africa; Integration of comprehensive women s health programmes into health systems: cervical cancer prevention care and control in Rwanda; Recommendations towards an integrated life-course approach to women s health in the post-2015 agenda; Sexual health in older women; Accelerating action towards universal health coverage by applying a gender lens; Policy directions to improve women s health beyond reproduction.