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New guidelines on mental health in Peru
(Elsevier, 2019)
In October, 2018, the Ministry of Health of Peru approved the sectoral policy guidelines on mental health, which update those published 14 years ago. The five guidelines highlight the transitional framework of public mental ...
Assessing essential service provision for prevention and management of violence against women in a remote indigenous community in Amantaní, Peru
(BioMed Central, 2023)
Background: Women living in indigenous communities in Peru currently experience extremely high rates of intimate partner violence (IPV). Over the past 10 years, there has been a large multi-sectoral initiative to establish ...
Peruvian Mental Health Reform: A Framework for Scaling-up Mental Health Services
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Mental, neurological, and substance (MNS) use disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide; specifically in Peru, MNS affect 1 in 5 persons. However, the great majority of people suffering from these ...
Nuya kankantawa (we are feeling healthy): Understandings of health and wellbeing among Shawi of the Peruvian Amazon
(Elsevier, 2021)
Promoting and supporting Indigenous health includes ensuring health services reflect local concepts of health. There is, therefore, a need to better understand context-specific Indigenous understandings of health in order ...
Estimating Need, Demand and Supply in Primary Health Care Services: A Local Application in Argentina
(Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba, 2018-07)
To provide equal access, health care provision should be distributed across geodemographic space based on need. In Argentina, the social security, publicly funded health care and private health care subsectors are responsible ...
High-quality health systems: time for a revolution in research and research funding
(Elsevier, 2019)
The launch of two landmark publications on the quality of care in the world's poorest populations, including The Lancet Global Health Commission on high-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era ...
Motivating provision of high quality care: it is not all about the money.
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)
Mylène Lagarde, Luis Huicho, and Irene Papanicolas discuss different strategies policy makers can use to motivate health providers in order to improve quality of care. The inclusion of universal health coverage as a target ...
Determinants of Eye Care Service Utilization among Peruvian Adults: Evidence from a Nationwide Household Survey
(Taylor and Francis, 2021)
PURPOSE: This study analyzes the factors associated with eye care service utilization among Peruvians 50 years of age and older, measured as self-reporting of having undergone examination of visual acuity during the last ...
Integration of a Technology-Based Mental Health Screening Program Into Routine Practices of Primary Health Care Services in Peru (The Allillanchu Project): Development and Implementation
(JMIR Publications, 2018)
BACKGROUND: Despite their high prevalence and significant burden, mental disorders such as depression remain largely underdiagnosed and undertreated. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the Allillanchu Project was to design, develop, ...
Measuring people’s views on health system performance: Design and development of the people’s voice survey
(PLoS, 2023)
People should be at the center of health system performance assessment. Populations can provide critical insight on quality of care, confidence in health services, and health outcomes. However, today’s measurement approaches ...