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The Italian Journal of Public Health (IJPH) is a globally circulated international peer-reviewed journal listed in the National Library of Medicine. Funded in 2003, the IJPH is a quarterly publication for original research and theoretical or methodological papers within the area of public health.
Long papers, short papers, reviews, letters and commentaries are reported in English language, with issues being published in March, June, September and December.

 

Rare diseases in public health

2009 Vol. 6 Nr.4

 
 
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2009 Vol. 6 Nr.4
Table of contents
Rare diseases in public health
Domenica Taruscio
The italian approach to rare diseases and the action of the Italian National Centre for Rare Diseases
Domenica Taruscio, Luciano Vittozzi
The European Union action in the field of rare diseases
Antoni Montserrat Moliner
Collaborative research efforts and related activities of the Office of Rare Diseases Research at the USA National Institutes of Health
Stephen C. Groft
Rare diseases and orphan drugs in eastern european countries
Rumen Stefanov, Domenica Taruscio
Health and nutritional status of three adult male populations of Eastern India: an anthropometric appraisal
Sudip Datta Banik
Meta-analysis of non-randomized studies in interventional cardiology: a critical appraisal
Eliano Pio Navarese, Alessandro Lupi, Antonino Buffon, Mara Sansa, Elena Franchi, Andrea Aurelio, Angelo Sante Bongo
Can savings induced by off-patent drugs balance the increase of pharmaceutical expense associated with the high ageing rate of the italian population?
Pierluigi Russo, Alessandro Capone, Vasco Pieri, Giampiero Favato
Evaluation of radon levels in indoor gymnasia of Palermo (Sicily) and Sassari (Sardinia)
Alberto Firenze, Giuseppe Calamusa, Emanuele Amodio, Mariagrazia Morici, Maria Di Paquale, Walter Mazzucco, Antonio Azara, Elena Muresu, Marco Dettori, Giorgio Maida, Viviana Gelsomino, Francesco Vitale
A healthy lesson, Italian-style?
Walter Ricciardi, Carlo Favaretti, Rocco Bellantone
The Mantel-Haenszel procedure. 50 years of the statistical method for confounders control
Alice Mannocci
Appropriateness of admission and stay in obstetrics wards: a new tool assessing unnecessary days of hospital care
Giuseppina Poppa, Giuseppe La Torre, Alice Mannocci, Maria Lucia Specchia, Grace Rabacchi, Claudia Vaschetto, Claudio Bontempi, Walter Ricciardi, Antonio Boccia
PRISMA: an attempt to improve standards for reporting systematic review and meta-analysis
Stefania Boccia
The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analysis of studies that evaluate health care interventions: explanation and elaboration
Alessandro Liberati, Douglas G. Altman, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Cynthia Mulrow, Peter C. Gøtzsche, John P. A. Ioannidis, Mike Clarke, P. J. Devereaux, Jos Kleijnen, David Moher
The Agro Pontino, climate change and malaria
Angelo Giuseppe Solimini, Roberto Bucci, Antonio Boccia