Обратный отсчет: достижение целей развития тысячелетия в области борьбы с ВИЧ...
Некоторые бывшие республики Советского Союза, включая страны СНГ, сталкиваются с серьезными трудностями на пути к цели развития тысячелетия в области борьбы с ВИЧ/туберкулезом (ЦРТ-6), которая должна...
View ArticleThe clock is ticking: attaining the HIV/TB MDG targets in the former Soviet...
Some countries of the former Soviet Union, the so-called CIS countries, are facing difficult challenges to achieve the HIV/tuberculosis-related Millennium Development Goal (MDG 6) by 2015. The...
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Making a public health case for safer roads
Also available in: РусскийOn recent visits to Moscow and Tbilisi, and driving from Baku to the Sheki and Agdash regions in Azerbaijan, I observed challenges and progress in making roads safer. Why...
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Все ли методы лечения и лекарства хороши для пациента?
Принимая клятву Гиппократа, профессионалы из области здравоохранения обязуются лечить пациентов, основываясь на своих «способностях и суждениях», а так же «никогда и никому не навредить».Впечатляющий...
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Are all medical procedures, drugs good for the patient?
Also available in: РусскийWhen healthcare professionals take the Hippocratic Oath, they promise to prescribe patients regimens based on their “ability and judgment” and to “never do harm to...
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Health information systems in developing countries: Star Wars or reality?
In the late 1990s, an international consultant told me that a proposed electronic health information system in the Dominican Republic was “like Star Wars and will not work in this country.” Our...
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Back from the Cold: Russia Confronts Tobacco
image Wikimedia CommonsYou might have missed it over the winter, but Russia achieved an important public health milestone that deserves applause: It enacted a national law that bans smoking in public...
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«Оттепель», или Россия против курения
Возможно, эта информация осталась для вас не замеченной, но этой зимой Россия совершила важнейший прорыв к улучшению состояния здоровья населения страны, заслуживающий самой высокой оценки: в стране...
View ArticleHow Russia can further improve its tobacco taxation efforts to boost health...
Over the past 10 years Russia has made great progress in increasing the life expectancy of its people. Back in the mid-2000s, we documented the dramatic decrease in life expectancy in the post-Soviet...
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