The Ministry of Public Health convened a deliberative forum in March 18, 2011 Merina Hotel in Yaounde, on "Improving Governance for Health District Development in Cameroon." Twenty governance actors were in attendance including officials from ministries and specialized agencies, regional and district med...
The poor governance in Cameroonian health districts stems from a lack of clear and consistent operating procedures for district governing bodies and health services, power imbalance between district managers and community representatives, and insufficient knowledge of the existing legal and regulatory fr...
Au Burkina Faso, la promotion de la santé de la mère et de l'enfant a toujours fait partie du paquet d'activités développé par les services de santé. Cependant, l'efficacité de ces nombreuses interventions reste très faible surtout en termes d'impact sur la mortalité maternelle et néonatale. Pr...
Ces dernières années, la visibilité et le soutien politique apportés à la lutte contre le paludisme ont continué de progresser sérieusement. Le présent récapitulatif de la politique est un résumé des stratégies techniques recommandées par l´OMS. Il a pour objet de présenter, dans le cadre ...
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...
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 ...
In recent years, visibility and political support for malaria has continued to increase dramatically.
This policy brief is a summary of the WHO recommended technical strategies. The purpose is to
present in one concise document a summary of WHO Guidance in order to assist countries in
developing Global F...
Although not using EVIPNet methodologies yet, this policy brief is helpful in showing how Morocco has implemented efficient strategies of intervention to accelerate the reduction of maternal mortality. The exercise of the evidence informed policy brief writing with multisectoral health players such as UN...
The lack of health system decision-maker engagement in
supporting comprehensive chronic pain management in
provincial and territorial healthcare systems in Canada
can be understood by considering four sets of
interrelated issues: 1) lack of awareness of chronic pain;
2) lack of awareness of limitations i...
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....
