South Asia
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- Mechanisms for effective dementia care treatments
- ( M.J. Prince;D. Acosta;E. Castro-Costa;J. Jackson;K.S. Shaji / Public Library of Science Medicine , 2009)
- 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 low. This paper focuses on the effective ma...
- Improving eye health for women and families in India
- ( G. Kothari / Community Eye Health Journal , 2009)
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In the slums and rural areas of India, visual impairment, blindness, and childhood blindness are usually more prevalent. This article in Community Eye Health Journal argues that in order to improve...
- Dementia needs to become a priority on the world health agenda
- ( M. Prince (ed);J. Jackson (ed) / Alzheimer's Disease International , 2009)
- This Report gives an overview and analysis of the prevalence and impact of Alzheimer's disease, based on systematic review identifying studies in 21 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) world regions....
- Economic consequences of healthcare utilization in rural Bangladesh
- ( Abbas Bhuiya / Future Health Systems research consortium , 2009)
- What is the cost of health care services? With an overwhelming majority of the population in Bangladesh living below the poverty threshold, this is an important question. The authors argue that the pe...
- Providing iron to infants and young children
- ( World Health Organization , 2006)
- Iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia are common in young children, and there is substantial evidence that iron deficiency has adverse effects on child health and development. This report from th...
- How global health initiatives impact upon national health systems
- ( Regien G Biesma;Ruairı´ Brugha;Andrew Harmer / Health Policy and Planning , 2009)
- This paper, published by the Health Policy and Planning journal, reviews country-level evidence about the impact of global health initiatives (GHIs), which have had profound effects on recipient count...
- Basic health care services in Afghanistan
- ( Management Sciences for Health , 2005)
- Since the creation of the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) in Afghanistan in 2003 the country has seen many positive changes in its health care system. This document from the Ministry of Public...
- Targeting aid funds towards health services in Afghanistan
- ( S. Simmonds;F. Ferozuddin / Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK , 2008)
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How can aid funds best be spent in areas of high instability? This scoping study from the British Department for International Development (DFID) argues that development funds would have the m...
- Achieving improvements in Afghan health care
- ( Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , 2006)
- The Ministry of Public Health of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has adopted the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for use as a tool to measure and manage performance in delivery of the Basic Package of He...
- Delivering basic health services in Afghanistan
- ( D.H. Peters;A. A. Noor;L. P. Singh / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2007)
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The Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan has developed a balanced scorecard (BSC) to regularly monitor the progress of its strategy to deliver a basic package of health services. Although frequ...
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