American Indian elders are on the crest of a chronic disease epidemic (2010-02-09 09:34:08)The elderly population (age 55 and older) among American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) is projected to increase from 5.5% of the total U.S. AIAN population ...
Community health workers monitor neonatal health in Bangladesh (2010-03-08 10:46:29)Four million babies die each year in their first four weeks of life. Better neonatal survival requires cost-effective action at the community level ...
Mental health in post-conflict Southern Sudan (2010-03-08 10:46:29)Sudan's two decades of civil war, which ended in 2005, involved widespread violence and large-scale forced migration. This had traumatic impacts ...
Global public action needs to tackle global health policies (2010-03-08 10:46:29)Our understanding of global public action is dominated by experiences from global campaigns and a focus on human rights, environmental and gender issues. ...
Millennium Development Goal 'success' can hide health inequities (2010-03-08 10:46:29) <meta content="Microsoft Word 2008" ...
Can improved sanitation make children healthier? (2010-03-08 10:46:29)Some 250,000 Ethiopian children die each year from poor sanitation, hygiene and water. Ethiopia has ambitious plans to ensure universal access to pit ...
Final review of the Haydom Lutheran Hospital project, Tanzania (2010-01-13 12:52:48)Haydom Lutheran Hospital (HLH) is a first level referral hospital located in Tanzania. It has been receiving substantial financial support from the Norwegian ...
Strategies for reducing maternal mortality: towards achieving MDG 5 (2010-02-10 11:31:54)The authors assert that the fifth Millennium Development Goal to reduce maternal mortality by two-thirds by 2015 will best be achieved by adopting ...
Choosing medical supplies with care: a comprehensive guide (2010-01-26 07:01:53)Choosing supplies and equipment is often given little thought or attention. This can result in procurement of inappropriate supplies and equipment. ...
Provision of home and community-based care for the disabled elderly in Israel (2009-11-20 08:58:03)Concerns about the implications of population ageing and the size of the elderly population with disabilities led Israel to began to implement its Long-Term ...
Demands to reduce the use of antipsychotics for people with dementia (2009-11-13 10:55:06)There have been increasing concerns over the past years about the use of these drugs in dementia. The findings of this review confirms that there are ...
Mechanisms for effective dementia care treatments (2009-12-10 11:00:34)Two-thirds of people with dementia live in low- and middle income countries (LMICs), where there are few services available and levels of awareness is ...
Strengthening of national research and information systems should be a key component of health and health research programmes (2009-10-19 08:31:10)This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, argues that in most low- and middle-income countries, foreign-funded initiatives ...
The role of civil society organisations in biomedical research (2009-10-19 07:50:54)While several publications have addressed the role of civil society organisations (CSOs) in social science research in health, their role in biomedical ...
Opportunities for scaling up neglected-disease drug development (2009-10-19 07:29:17)Whereas only 13 new drugs have been developed for neglected tropical diseases since 1975, this paper, published in PLoS Medicine, notes that this is as ...
Developing national health research strategies to build capacity in Africa (2009-10-19 06:53:41)This paper, published by BioMed Central, takes stock of some aspects of national resources for health research in the countries of the WHO African Region. ...
Gender dimensions of surgery for cataract problems (2009-10-16 10:50:30)Surgical intervention is necessary if children with cataract are to regain their sight. In many low- and middle-income countries, cataract is the leading ...
Latrines and surgery as a way of reducing trachoma in Ethiopia and Southern Sudan (2009-10-16 10:45:52)Trachoma is an infectious disease of the eye caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. Bacteria can spread via an infected person's hands ...
Eye care interventions in Egypt (2009-10-16 08:03:37)In Egypt women are not using eye care services as frequently as men, especially in rural areas. Therefore women in Egypt are more likely than men to suffer ...
Improving eye health for women and families in India (2009-10-16 10:31:21)In the slums and rural areas of India, visual impairment, blindness, and childhood blindness are usually more prevalent. This article in Community ...
Gender and vision loss (2009-10-16 08:11:20)Increasingly it is evident that women are affected by blindness and visual impairment to a much greater degree than men. In 1980 a systematic review of ...
Participatory activities on sexual and reproductive health with young people (2009-10-06 01:21:59)This toolkit is a result of team work between sexual and reproductive health practitioners working with young people in Zambia, Malawi Zimbabwe and ...
A human rights based approach to promoting HIV prevention and treatment (2009-10-06 09:12:34)In a world where the overwhelming majority of HIV infections are sexually transmitted, sex workers and their clients are at heightened risk of HIV, in ...
Protecting sex workers from violence and HIV risk in Cambodia (2009-10-05 02:13:35)As one of the few countries that have managed to check the spread of HIV, Cambodia is widely praised as a success story. This success is often attributed ...
Dementia needs to become a priority on the world health agenda (2009-09-29 06:10:08)This Report gives an overview and analysis of the prevalence and impact of Alzheimer's disease, based on systematic review identifying studies in ...
What reasons are behind the health gap between US and Europe? (2009-09-29 11:09:07)There is a growing longevity gap between the US and Europe with no settled interpretation. This paper demonstrates that differences in observed disease ...
A handbook for those working in the community who supporting HIV prevention, care, support and treatment (2009-09-23 11:16:58)Uganda like many other developing countries, suffers from inequitable distribution of health workers between rural and urban areas and between public ...
Integrating HIV and TB care in Benin and the DRC (2009-09-28 06:06:27)This document is the final evaluation of a three year project to pilot integrated HIV and TB care in Benin and the DRC. The project was implemented by ...
Family solidarity still evident in Thailand despite social changes promoting out-migration (2009-11-13 05:38:41)Both migration and population ageing are increasingly occurring in Thailand. The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an association ...
Empowerment of adolescents: findings from a baseline survey in Bangladesh (2009-09-10 07:17:58)This brochure presents highlights of the primary findings of the baseline survey of the second phase of the Kishori Abhijan - Empowerment of Adolescents ...