Cancer can be seen as a chronic disease that requires
long-term efforts to address the late effects of treatment
and to maximize the health outcomes of survivors.
Clinicians, experts and healthcare system leaders in the
Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant region of Ontario,
much like those working in other ...
Au début de la décennie 90, le Cameroun a mis en œuvre un système de santé décentralisé
conformément aux cadres conceptuels du district de santé et des soins de santé primaires
recommandés par le Bureau régional de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (AFRO). Des
structures de dialogue comm...
Opportunities exist to disseminate evidence-based cancer control strategies to state-level policy makers in both
the legislative and executive branches. We explored factors that influence the likelihood that state-level policy
makers will find a policy brief understandable, credible, and useful....
Las estrategias implementadas en las últimas tres décadas para incrementar la cobertura y acceso
de comunidades excluidas a prestaciones de salud, se caracterizaban por una organización basada
en programas verticales entregados en los establecimientos de salud de la red de servicios, de
segundo y terc...
Systematic reviews show that access to community-based health services reduces neonatal mortality and still births, but t he effect on maternal mortality is harder to detect. However, the evidence so fr has come from small sample size studies, mainly conducted in Asia and with very little information fro...
There is a shortage and maldistribution of medically trained health professionals. These are important reasons why cost-effective MCH services are not available to over half the population of Uganda and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals for MCH is slow. Optimising the roles of less specia...
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCTs) programmes provide cash to poor households who meet certain health and education conditions such as regular school attendance and health check-ups for children at the clinic. This model of intervention is spreading rapidly throughout the developing world. Over 17 countrie...
EVIPNet (Evidence-Informed Policy Network) Africa—a network of World Health Organization (WHO)-sponsored knowledge-translation (KT) platforms in seven sub-Saharan African countries—was launched at a meeting in Brazzaville, Congo, in March 2006 (1;2). EVIPNet Africa can trace its origins to resolution...
In the Central African Republic (CAR) malaria is a major public health problem and hampers socioeconomic development. It accounts for 40 percent of complaints and 10 percent of deaths in health facilities (15;17). Pregnant women, who make up 4 percent of the population, and children under 5 years of age,...
Malaria is the major cause of illness in Cameroon, responsible for 40 percent of medical consultations. For this reason, the Head of State along with his African Union peers in April 2000 and 2006 undertook to achieve universal access to malaria control interventions, including effective treatment (10;12...
