Uganda´s maternal mortality has moderately declined from 670 per 100,000 live births in 1990 to 430 per 100,000 live births in 2008. This annual decline of 13 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births is unlikely to achieve the MDG target of 168 per 100,000 live births by 2015. The proportion of pregnant ...
The Problem: Lack of access to uterotonics to prevent PPH in rural Ethiopia - Ethiopia?s maternal mortality rate is among the highest in the world with 470 deaths per 100,000 live births. Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) remains to be the leading cause of maternal mortality in developing countries like Ethiop...
Mortalité maternelle est un grave problème de santé publique en RCA avec un taux de 1355 décès pour 100.000 naissances vivantes. Quatre principales difficultés sont à la base de ce problème: a) Difficultés liées à l´accès aux soins. b) Difficultés liées à l´insuffisance et à la réparti...
Human resource shortages in the health services are widely
acknowledged as a threat to the attainment of the healthrelated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Attempts to
optimize the potential of the existing health workforce are
therefore crucial. A more rational distribution of tasks and
responsibili...
International health system performance comparisons have the potential to provide a rich source of evidence as well as policy influence.• Country comparisons that are not conducted with properly validated measures and unbiased policy interpretations may prompt adverse policy impacts and so caution is r...
This brief is a contribution to deliberations aiming at fostering the use of antenatal care (ANC)
services by pregnant women in order to reach the optimum recommended by WHO (e.g., four
prenatal visits, one per quarter including one just before delivery) within the framework of the
Campaign for the Accel...
The number of health workers in Mozambique is insufficient to enable the achievement of the
country‟s population health goals. This problem is compounded by the uneven distribution of
health care works by province and by area of residence, and by a weak and under-resourced
national health system which ...
A rare disease is a disease that occurs infrequently or rarely in the general population. In
order to be considered as rare, each specific disease cannot affect more than a limited
number of people out of the whole population, defined in Chile as 0.18 in 10,000 citizens
(Minister of Health draft of the l...
Issued by an international group of experts in health and private sector, this report stresses the importance of the private sector in responding to the HRH crisis and the need for further health workforce innovation, that increased the supply, improved the effectiveness of health workers.Recommendations...
