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...
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...
The World Health Organization (WHO) since June 1998 has advocated for the use of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) in countries where Plasmodium falciparum malaria is resistant to traditional antimalarial therapies such as chloroquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, and amodiaquine (19;22). In 2...
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...
As desigualdades sociais entre regiões e populações no Brasil se reproduzem nas taxas de mortalidade infantil, constituindo um relevante problema de saúde a ser enfrentado por toda a sociedade. Apesar do declínio da mortalidade infantil na última década, as taxas encontradas nas regiões Norte e N...
A atenção à saúde no Brasil tem investido na formulação, implementação e concretização de políticas
de promoção, proteção e recuperação da saúde. Há um grande esforço na construção de modelo de
atenção à saúde que priorize ações de mehoria da qualidade de vida dos sujeitos col...
Les dialogues sur les politiques permettent dexaminer les données de recherche parallèlement aux perspectives, aux expériences et aux connaissances tacites des personnes qui participent à la prise de décisions relatives à une question hautement prioritaire, ou qui sont touchées par de telles déci...
The purpose of this policy brief is to inform deliberations among policymakers and
stakeholders on optimising roles of health cadres in the delivery of maternal and child health.
It summarises the best available evidence regarding the design and implementation of
policies for extending the roles of non-m...
There is now extensive evidence demonstrating that there is a gap between the health care that patients receive and the practice that is recommended. In both primary and secondary care there are unwarranted variations in practice and in resulting outcomes that cannot be explained by the characteristics o...
The choice of a strategy to assess the future health workforce (HW) is value-based and depends on what health outcomes and service objectives policy-makers have set.Various models, approaches and toolkits have been proposed and tried over the years by international agencies, as well as by individual coun...
