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...
Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Mozambique. Approximately 6 million cases are reported each year. Malaria accounts for approximately 40 percent of all outpatient visits and 60 percent of pediatric hospital admissions. It is the leading cause of death among children admitted to pedi...
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...
Malaria in Ethiopia is one of the leading causes of death (21.8 percent), consultation in outpatient departments (17.8 percent) and hospital admissions (14.1 percent) (2;14). To overcome this problem, the Malaria Control Program (Federal Ministry of Health) has designed a communitybased malaria treatment...
En este artÃculo abordaremos consideraciones relacionadas con la equidad. Las inequidades pueden definirse como ?diferencias en la salud que no solo son innecesarias y se pueden evitar sino que, además, son consideradas injustas e inicuas?. Estas diferencias han sido debidamente documentadas en relaciÃ...
Gender differences in health and in how well health systems and health care
services meet the needs of women and men are well known: in Europe, there
are variations in terms of life expectancy, the risk of mortality and morbidity,
health behaviours and in the use of health care services. There is also in...
Saber como localizar e usar evidências de pesquisa pode ajudar os formuladores de polÃticas e aqueles que os ajudam a melhorar e a tornar a elaboração de polÃticas mais eficiente. Cada artigo desta série apresenta uma proposta de ferramenta que pode ser usada por aqueles envolvidos na busca e utili...
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...
Neste artigo, falaremos sobre como organizar os esforços para apoiar a formulação de polÃticas de saúde fundamentadas em evidências. Os esforços para vincular a pesquisa à ação podem incluir uma série de atividades relacionadas à produção de pesquisas que sejam altamente relevantes ? e adeq...
