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Sharing Histories-a transformative learning/teaching method to empower community health workers to support health behavior change of mothers
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: One of the keys to improving health globally is promoting mothers' adoption of healthy home practices for improved nutrition and illness prevention in the first 1000 days of life from conception. Customarily, ...
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 ...
Social disparity and oral health
(2012-12-01)
There is a clear reported association between social disparity and oral health, for example, between dental caries and malnutrition in children. This fact is detected in several studies, and also found amongst the Brazilian ...
Social disparity and oral health
(2012-12-01)
There is a clear reported association between social disparity and oral health, for example, between dental caries and malnutrition in children. This fact is detected in several studies, and also found amongst the Brazilian ...
The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health
(Elsevier, 2018)
The Lancet Countdown tracks progress on health and climate change and provides an independent assessment of the health effects of climate change, the implementation of the Paris Agreement, 1 and the health implications of ...
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 ...
Corruption in health systems: The conversation has started, now time to continue it; Comment on “We need to talk about corruption in health systems”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2020)
Holistic and multi-disciplinary responses should be prioritized given the depth and breadth through which corruption in the healthcare sector can cover. Here, taking the Peruvian context as an example, we will reflect on ...
Lessons learnt during the implementation of WISN for comprehensive primary health care in India, South Africa and Peru
(MDPI, 2021)
Introduction: The World Health Organization introduced the workload indicators of staffing needs (WISN) in 1998 to improve country-level health workforce planning. This study presents the primary care health workforce ...
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 ...