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 ...
En RCA, il est globalement ressorti des différents rapports de suivi des indicateurs
des OMD que les progrès sont les plus lents en ce qui concerne l’OMD1 (Eradiquer
l’extrême pauvreté et la faim), l´OMD 4 (Réduire la mortalité des enfants de moins de 5
ans), l’OMD 5 (Améliorer la santé ma...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a major global
challenge, one that causes most of the deaths and disability
among humans.
These diseases are not transmissible from one person to
another. They include cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic
respiratory disease, diabetes and mental health disorders, b...
Health costs are spiralling out of control all over the world in context of global financial crisis while some countries are still struggling to offer basic health services. The health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa is most often unfunded, including the health workforce, which represents the single largest...
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...
The world is experiencing a serious human resource shortage in the health sector, which the World Health Assembly calls 'a crisis in health'. This Report systematically explains the human services crisis, particularly in the world's poorest countries. The Report considers the complex mix of factors that ...
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...
This paper sought to determine the safety and feasibility of home-based prophylaxis of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) with misoprostol, including assessment of the need for referrals and additional interventions. In rural Tigray, Ethiopia, traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in intervention areas were train...
