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Poverty and Human Development

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Original Contributions

  • Informing Resource-Poor Populations and the Delivery of Entitled Health and Social Services in Rural India: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

    • Priyanka Pandey,
    • Ashwini R. Sehgal,
    • Michelle Riboud,
    • David Levine,
    • Madhav Goyal
    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

    • Emmanuela Gakidou,
    • Shefali Oza,
    • Cecilia Vidal Fuertes,
    • Amy Y. Li,
    • Diana K. Lee,
    • Angelica Sousa,
    • Margaret C. Hogan,
    • Stephen Vander Hoorn,
    • Majid Ezzati
    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

    • Carolyn Bolton-Moore,
    • Mwangelwa Mubiana-Mbewe,
    • Ronald A. Cantrell,
    • Namwinga Chintu,
    • Elizabeth M. Stringer,
    • Benjamin H. Chi,
    • Moses Sinkala,
    • Chipepo Kankasa,
    • Craig M. Wilson,
    • Catherine M. Wilfert,
    • Albert Mwango,
    • Jens Levy,
    • Elaine J. Abrams,
    • Marc Bulterys,
    • Jeffrey S. A. Stringer
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1888-1899.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1888

Reviews

  • Conditional Cash Transfers for Improving Uptake of Health Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

    • Mylene Lagarde,
    • Andy Haines,
    • Natasha Palmer
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1900-1910.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1900

  • Oral Drug Therapy for Multiple Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Systematic Review

    • Madhuri Reddy,
    • Sudeep S. Gill,
    • Sunila R. Kalkar,
    • Wei Wu,
    • Peter J. Anderson,
    • Paula A. Rochon
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1911-1924.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1911

Commentaries

  • Microfinance Programs and Better Health: Prospects for Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Paul M. Pronyk,
    • James R. Hargreaves,
    • Jonathan Morduch
    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,
    • Tengda Xu,
    • Jin Xu
    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
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1931-1933.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1931

  • Leveraging University Research to Advance Global Health

    • Dave A. Chokshi,
    • Rahul Rajkumar
    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,
    • Donald M. Berwick,
    • M. Rashad Massoud
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1937-1939.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1937

Editorials

  • Bridging the Coverage Gap in Global Health

    • Robert B. Eiss,
    • Roger I. Glass
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1940-1942.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1940

  • Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development

    • Annette Flanagin,
    • Margaret A. Winker
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1942.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1942

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Medical News & Perspectives

  • Jeffrey Sachs, PhD: Ending Extreme Poverty, Improving the Human Condition

    • M. J. Friedrich
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1849-1851.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1849

  • Food Insecurity Harms Health, Well-being of Millions in the United States

    • Tracy Hampton
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1851-1853.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1851

  • Global Shortage of Health Workers, Brain Drain Stress Developing Countries

    • Bridget M. Kuehn
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1853-1855.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1853

  • Persistence Pays Off in Guinea Worm Fight

    • Rebecca Voelker
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1856-1857.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1856

Health Agencies Update

Letters

  • Efficacy of a Weight Management Program in Overweight Children

    • Paul C. Young
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1860.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1860-a

  • Efficacy of a Weight Management Program in Overweight Children—Reply

    • Mary Savoye,
    • James Dziura
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1860-1861.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1860-b

  • Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Public Health

    • Timothy Brewer
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1861.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1861-a

  • Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Public Health—Reply

    • Howard Markel,
    • Lawrence O. Gostin,
    • David P. Fidler
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1861-1862.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1861-b

  • Electroconvulsive Therapy and Memory Loss

    • Anne B. Donahue
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1862.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1862-a

  • Cocoa Intake and Blood Pressure

    • Dimitrios Tsikas,
    • Ranieri Rossi
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1862-1863.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1862-b

  • Cocoa Intake and Blood Pressure—Reply

    • Dirk Taubert,
    • Norma Jung,
    • Renate Roesen
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1863-1864.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1863

Corrections

  • Incorrect Data in: Tolterodine and Tamsulosin for Treatment of Men With Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Overactive Bladder: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    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

    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1864.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1864-a

  • Incorrect Data in: Neurologic Adverse Events Associated With Smallpox Vaccination in the United States, 2002-2004

    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1864.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1864-b

Book and Media Reviews

  • Socio-Economic Differences in Health, Nutrition, and Population Within Developing Countries: An Overview

    • Cesar G. Victora
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1943-1944.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1943

  • Can a Health Care Market Be Moral? A Catholic Vision

    • Pat Fosarelli
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1944-1945.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1944

  • Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching

    • Xavier Bosch
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1945-1946.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1945

  • Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases

    • Mark K. Slifka,
    • Ian J. Amanna
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1946-1947.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1946

  • African American Bioethics: Culture, Race, and Identity

    • Lynn C. Smitherman
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1947-1948.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1947

  • From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health

    • Keith J. Mueller
    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1948-1949.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1948

Announcement

  • Clinical Crossroads Readers Respond

    JAMA. 2007;298(16):1949.doi:10.1001/jama.298.16.1949

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