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How are young people in South Africa using mobile phones to bridge healthcare gaps?
University of Durham, 2015Young people account for 30% of the population in South Africa, with just under 15 million young people aged 10 – 24 years.DocumentDoes parental education affect the impact of provision of health care on health status of children? Evidence from India
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014Provision of health care facilities does not necessarily imply that individuals are making use of those facilities. The objective of the study is to analyse the impact of provision of health care facilities on child health status taking into account the utilistion of available facilities.DocumentA review of TB in children and adolescents in South Africa 2008–2012
Health Systems Trust, South Africa, 2013Tuberculosis (TB) has increasingly been recognised as a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children in high TB-burden settings.DocumentCervical cancer in South Africa: Challenges and opportunities
South African Health Review / Health Systems Trust, 2013After breast, colorectal and lung cancer, cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer affecting women worldwide. The burden of cervical cancer is higher in low- to middle-income countries, due to poor access to screening and treatment services, competition with other health priorities, limited human and financial resources, and overburdened health systems.DocumentSocial Panorama of Latin America 2013
United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014This edition of the Social Panorama of Latin America discusses poverty from different angles, and in particular from amultidimensional perspective.DocumentManual for the health care of children in humanitarian emergencies
World Health Organization, 2008The acute phase of an emergency is defined by crude mortality rate and persists as long as the crude mortality rate is at least double the baseline mortality rate, that is, as long as there are twice as many people dying per day compared to the normal rate of death.DocumentSocial issues under economic transformation and integration in Vietnam, Volume 2
Vietnam Development Forum, 2008This is the second of two volumes looking at social issues in transition economies in reference to Vietnam.DocumentA scandal of invisibility: making everyone count by counting everyone
The Lancet, 2007This paper is the first in a series of Lancet papers about the importance of collecting data for health development. The absence of reliable data on numbers of births and numbers and causes of death render most of the world’s poor people as unseen, uncountable, and hence uncounted.DocumentDoes a competitive voucher program for adolescents improve the quality of reproductive health care?: a simulated patient study in Nicaragua
BMC Public Health, 2006This study, published in BMC Public Health, evaluates the impact and sustainability of a competitive voucher programme on the quality of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care for poor and underserved female adolescents. Vouchers were distributed to adolescents in disadvantaged areas that gave free-of-charge access to SRH care in four public, ten non-governmental and five private clinics.