Vol. 27 No. 3 (2009)

Editorial

Setting Priorities in Diarrhoeal Disease Research: Merits and Pitfalls of Expert Opinion

Wolf-Peter Schmidt

313-315
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Commentary

Poverty, Tobacco, and Health: An Indian Scenario

JP Majra, A Gur

316-318
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Original Papers

Directing Diarrhoeal Disease Research towards Disease-burden Reduction

Margaret Kosek, Claudio F Lanata, Robert E Black, Damian G Walker, John D Snyder, Mohammed Abdus Salam, Dilip Mahalanabis, Olivier Fontaine, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Shinjini Bhatnagar, Igor Rudan

319-331
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Determining Gestational Age in a Low-resource Setting: Validity of Last Menstrual Period

Rebecca E Rosenberg, ASM Nawshad U Ahmed, Saifuddin Ahmed, Samir K Saha, MAK Azad Chowdhury, Robert E Black, Mathuram Santosham, Gary L Darmstadt

332-338
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Emergency Contraception: Knowledge and Attitudes of Family Physicians of a Teaching Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Hamza M Abdulghani, Syed I Karim, Farhana Irfan

339-344
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Burden of Self-reported Acute Gastrointestinal Illness in Cuba

Pablo Aguiar Prieto, Rita L Finley, PK Muchaal, Michele T Guerin, Sandy Isaacs, Arnaldo Castro Dominguez, Gizele Coutin Marie, Enrique Perez

345-357
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Factors Associated with Missed Vaccination during Mass Immunization Campaigns

William M Weiss, Peter J Winch, Gilbert Burnham

358-367
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Direct Cost of Maternity-care Services in South Delhi: A Community Survey

Rinku Sen Gupta Dhar, Jitender Nagpal, Swati Sinha, VL Bhargava, Aarti Sachdeva, Abhishek Bhartia

368-378
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Cultural Theories of Postpartum Bleeding in Matlab, Bangladesh: Implications for Community Health Intervention

Lynn M Sibley, Daniel Hruschka, Nahid Kalim, Jasmin Khan, Moni Paul, Joyce K Edmonds, Marjorie A Koblinsky

379-390
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Timeliness and Completion Rate of Immunization among Nigerian Children Attending a Clinic-based Immunization Service

Ayebo E Sadoh, Charles O Eregie

391-395
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Perceptions of Quality of Care for Serious Illness at Different Levels of Facilities in a Rural Area of Bangladesh

Iqbal Anwar

396-405
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Condom-use Skills Checklist: A Proxy for Assessing Condom-use Knowledge and Skills When Direct Observation Is Not Possible

B Stanton, L Deveaux, S Lunn, S Yu, N Brathwaite, X Li, L Cottrell, C Harris, R Clemens, S Marshall

406-413
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Short Report

Validation of Two Portable Instruments to Measure Iron Concentration in Groundwater in Rural Bangladesh

Rebecca D Merrill, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Alain B Labrique, Hasmot Ali, Kerry Schulze, Mahbubur Rashid, Parul Christian, Keith P West

414-418
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Case studies

Typhus Fever: An Overlooked Diagnosis

Ramendra N Masumder, Mark AC Pietroni, Nadira Mosabbir, MA Salam

419-421
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