Malawi and Health systems
- Capital:
Lilongwe - Population:
15447500 - Size:
118480.0 Km2
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- HINARI
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Documents from the Hinari service are available online and are either free of charge or available at reduced rates to registered users in developing countries How to access the full text of articles
- The BLDS health collection
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Search for the latest health-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- How do women feel about their maternal health in Malawi?
- M. Rosato; C.W. Mwansambo; P.N. Kazembe / The Lancet, 2006
- Improvements in preventive and care-seeking behaviours to reduce maternal mortality in rural Africa depend on the knowledge and attitudes of women and communities. Surveys have indicated a poor awareness of maternal health problems by...
- Innovations in developing country health care delivery through social franchises
- University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
- Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations en...
- The dual crises of human resource shortage and HIV in Malawi
- D McCoy; B McPake; V Mwapasa / Human Resources for Health, 2008
- This paper published in Human Resources for Health examines the two crises that dominate the health sectors of sub-Saharan African countries: those of human resources and of HIV. The authors describe how there is considerable variatio...
- Food assistance and HIV: a step-by-step guide to integrated programming
- Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2007
- This guide from the FANTA project outlines key steps for integrating food assistance and nutrition into HIV programmes. It identifies key challenges to integrated HIV programming: inadequate understanding of how to address the overlap...
- The challenge of addressing Tuberculosis in Malawi
- B. Simwaka; G. Bello; H. Banda / International Journal for Equity in Health, 2007
- This article published in the International Journal for Equity in Health synthesises what is known on equity and tuberculosis (TB) in Malawi and highlights areas for further action and advocacy. Based on a range of published and unpub...
- A large number of ART patients in Malawi are managed by a small proportion of the health-care workforce
- Simon D Makombe; Andreas Jahn; Hannock Tweya / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2007
- This paper from the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to assess the human resources impact of Malawi’s rapidly growing antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme and balance this against the survival benefit of health-care worker...
- Could health worker migration bring benefits to Malawi?
- Richard Record; Abdu Mohiddin / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, is currently losing health professionals to rich countries while its own health system suffers from a critical lack of human resources. Is this movement of medical staff fundamentally...
- Making TB services more affordable in Malawi
- J. R. Kemp; G. Mann; B. N. Simwaka / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2007
- This paper in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization assesses the relative costs of accessing a tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis for the poor and for women in urban Lilongwe, Malawi, a setting where public health services are access...
- MSF strategies for retaining health workers in sub-Saharan Africa
- Médecins Sans Frontières, 2007
- This Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) report examines the impact of human resources shortages witnessed by MSF teams in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa, focusing largely on nurses in rural areas. It describes how MSF t...
- Rising trends in inequities in health between the poor and non-poor in Malawi
- E. Zere; M. Moeti; J. Jirigia / BMC Public Health, 2007
- This article in BMC public health assesses trends in inequities in health and health service utilisation in Malawi using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) of 1992, 2000, and 2004. The paper finds that there has been a...
- Malawi Medical Journal (MMJ)
- The Malawi Medical Journal is a peer reviewed, open access, quarterly, general medical journal published by the College of Medicine, University of Malawi and Medical Association of Malawi.
