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  Children’s mobility in Ghana: An overview of methods and findings from the Ghana research study

  Society, Biology and Human Affairs, 2011

  This paper is part of a collection forming A Special Issue, which covers selected themes from a larger project on child mobility in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. The themes are those which individual members of the Ghana research team identified as of particular interest and on which they have reflected, drawing on material collected and analysed by the team as a whole.
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  A Moving Issue: Children and young people’s transport and mobility constraints in Africa

  International Forum for Rural Transport and Development, 2010

  Children and young people are rarely at the forefront of transport studies, despite the fact that their ability to access health and educational facilities is crucial to the achievement of internatioanl development goals.
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  Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010

  Globally, ageing impacts all countries, with a majority of older persons residing in lower- and middle-income countries now and into the future. An understanding of the health and well-being of these ageing populations is important for policy and planning; however, research on ageing and adult health that informs policy predominantly comes from higher-income countries.
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  Home-Based Care Alliance policy brief: debunking myths

  Home-Based Care Alliance, 2013

  The Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA) represents more than 30,000 caregivers organised into multi-district HBCAs in twelve African countries, caring for over 200,000 neighbours and friends, and with a history of organising around HIV/AIDS and its effects.
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  Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA)
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  Landscape Analysis: Assessing Countries' Readiness to Scale up Nutrition Actions in the WHO African Region

  2012

  This paper assessed strengths and weaknesses in combating malnutrition in nine Sub-Saharan Africa nations with high stunting burden (Burkina-Faso, Comoros, Coted’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique and South Africa) in terms of the commitment and capacity.
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  An assessment of mental health policy in Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia

  Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011

  Approximately half of the countries in the African Region had a mental health policy by 2005, but little is known about quality of mental health policies in Africa and globally. This paper reports the results of an assessment of the mental health policies of Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia.
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  Getting research into policy and practice

  Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009

  The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change.Development actors are paying increasing attention to the question of how research, despite barriers, can fulfil its potential to improve policy and practice.
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  Strengthening the research to policy and practice interface: exploring strategies used by research organisations working on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS

  Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011

  As part of the Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Policy (SHHEP) project researchers and communications experts came together to share and analyse the strategies they used to influence policy.
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  Growing older in Africa and Asia: Multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being. Global health Action journal, supplement 2

  Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010

  Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Article titles include:

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