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JAMA

October 24/31, 2007, Vol 298, No. 16
Theme: Poverty and Human Development
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Informing Resource-Poor Populations and the Delivery of Entitled Health and Social Services in Rural India:  A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial FREE
Priyanka Pandey, PhD; Ashwini R. Sehgal, MD; Michelle Riboud, PhD; David Levine, MD, ScD; Madhav Goyal, MD, MPH
Topics: pregnancy, fees and charges, india, nurse midwife, social work, vaccination, prenatal care
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1867-1875. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1867.
Improving Child Survival Through Environmental and Nutritional Interventions:  The Importance of Targeting Interventions Toward the Poor FREE
Emmanuela Gakidou, PhD; Shefali Oza, SB; Cecilia Vidal Fuertes, MA; Amy Y. Li, AB; Diana K. Lee, BS; Angelica Sousa, MS; Margaret C. Hogan, AB; Stephen Vander Hoorn, MSc; Majid Ezzati, PhD
Includes: Supplemental Content
Topics: africa south of the sahara, asia, caribbean region, latin america, economics, mortality, child mortality
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1876-1887. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1876.
Clinical Outcomes and CD4 Cell Response in Children Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy at Primary Health Care Facilities in Zambia FREE
Carolyn Bolton-Moore, MBBCh; Mwangelwa Mubiana-Mbewe, MBChB; Ronald A. Cantrell, MPH; Namwinga Chintu, MBChB; Elizabeth M. Stringer, MD, MSc; Benjamin H. Chi, MD; Moses Sinkala, MBChB, MPH; Chipepo Kankasa, MBBS; Craig M. Wilson, MD; Catherine M. Wilfert, MD; Albert Mwango, MBChB; Jens Levy, PhD; Elaine J. Abrams, MD; Marc Bulterys, MD, PhD; Jeffrey S. A. Stringer, MD
Topics: hemoglobin, primary health care, zambia, treatment outcome, anti-retroviral agents
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1888-1899. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1888.
Conditional Cash Transfers for Improving Uptake of Health Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries:  A Systematic Review FREE
Mylene Lagarde, MSc; Andy Haines, MD; Natasha Palmer, PhD
Topics: income, mexico, money
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1900-1910. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1900.
Clinician's Corner
Oral Drug Therapy for Multiple Neglected Tropical Diseases:  A Systematic Review FREE
Madhuri Reddy, MD, MSc; Sudeep S. Gill, MD, MSc; Sunila R. Kalkar, MBBS, MD; Wei Wu, MSc; Peter J. Anderson, BA; Paula A. Rochon, MD, MPH
Includes: CME
Topics: pharmacotherapy, tropical disease
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1911-1924. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1911.
Microfinance Programs and Better Health:  Prospects for Sub-Saharan Africa
Paul M. Pronyk, FRCPC, PhD; James R. Hargreaves, PhD; Jonathan Morduch, PhD
Topics: africa south of the sahara, poverty
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1925-1927. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1925.
Factors Contributing to High Costs and Inequality in China's Health Care System
Houli Wang, MD; Tengda Xu, MD; Jin Xu, MD
Topics: health care systems
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1928-1930. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1928.
Future Health Consequences of the Current Decline in US Household Income
Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH
Topics: income
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1931-1933. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1931.
Leveraging University Research to Advance Global Health
Dave A. Chokshi, MSc; Rahul Rajkumar, MD, JD
Topics: developing countries, world health
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1934-1936. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1934.
The Science of Large-Scale Change in Global Health
C. Joseph McCannon, BA; Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP; M. Rashad Massoud, MD, MPH
Topics: world health
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1937-1939. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1937.
Bridging the Coverage Gap in Global Health
Robert B. Eiss, MA; Roger I. Glass, MD
Topics: world health
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1940-1942. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1940.
Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development
Annette Flanagin, RN, MA; Margaret A. Winker, MD
Topics: human development, poverty
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1942. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1942.
Efficacy of a Weight Management Program in Overweight Children
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1860-1864. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1860-a.
Efficacy of a Weight Management Program in Overweight Children—Reply
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1860-1864. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1860-b.
Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Public Health
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1861-1862. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1861-a.
Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Public Health—Reply
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1861-1862. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1861-b.
Cocoa Intake and Blood Pressure
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1860-1864. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1862-b.
Cocoa Intake and Blood Pressure—Reply
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1860-1864. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1863.
Electroconvulsive Therapy and Memory Loss
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1862. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1862-a.
Jeffrey Sachs, PhD
Topics: africa, community health aides, developing countries, health services, income, internet, malaria, united nations, poverty, public health medicine, cellular phone
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1849-1857. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1849.
Food Insecurity Harms Health, Well-being of Millions in the United States
Topics: food, personal satisfaction, lack of food
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1851-1853. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1851.
Global Shortage of Health Workers, Brain Drain Stress Developing Countries
Topics: developing countries, world health organization, brain, stress
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1853-1855. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1853.
Persistence Pays Off in Guinea Worm Fight
Topics: dracunculiasis, dracunculus medinensis
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1849-1857. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1856.
Eradicating Polio
Topics: poliomyelitis
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1858. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1858-c.
Flu Preparedness
Topics: influenza
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1858. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1858-d.
Mental Health Care Lacking
Topics: mental health
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1858. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1858-a.
Poor Hit Hard by Diabetes
Topics: diabetes mellitus, diabetes mellitus, type 2
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1858. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1858-b.
The Poor Man’s Store
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1838. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1838.
Dupytrens Contracture
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1841. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1841.
About This Journal FREE
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1836. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1836.
African American Bioethics: Culture, Race, and Identity
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1943-1949. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1947.
Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1943-1949. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1945.
Can a Health Care Market Be Moral? A Catholic Vision
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1943-1949. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1944.
From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1943-1949. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1948.
Socio-Economic Differences in Health, Nutrition, and Population Within Developing Countries: An Overview
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1943-1949. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1943.
Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1943-1949. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1946.
Incorrect Data in: Neurologic Adverse Events Associated With Smallpox Vaccination in the United States, 2002-2004
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1864. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1864-b.
Incorrect Data in: Tolterodine and Tamsulosin for Treatment of Men With Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Overactive Bladder: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1864. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1864.
Incorrect Title in: Lateral Sclerosis: Prepare for the Worst and Hope for the Best
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1864. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1864-a.
Clinical Crossroads Readers Respond FREE
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1949. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1949.
Poverty and Health FREE
Janet M. Torpy, MD; Cassio Lynm, MA; Richard M. Glass, MD
Includes: Supplemental Content
Topics: poverty
JAMA. 2007;298(16):1968. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1968.
Facilities for Indigent Patients
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1950. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1950-b.
Free Clinic in Alexander County
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1950. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1950-a.
Japan: The Impoverished Villages and Practitioners
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1950. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1950-d.
Paris: Consultation Centers for Infant Welfare
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JAMA. 2007;298(16):1950. doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1950-c.
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