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Public health agencies’ obligations and the case of Zika
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2017-10)
This article focuses on the initial reactions to the Zika epidemic by national and international public health agencies. It presents and analyzes some responses public officials made about sexual and reproductive health ...
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 ...
Changing care and prevention needs for global public health: In pursuit of a comprehensive perspective
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)
An assessment of changing care and prevention needs in the framework of global public health should not be just a technical exercise of 'standard' demographic and epidemiological analysis; rather, it should also involve a ...
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 ...
Understanding drivers of domestic public expenditure on reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health in Peru at district level: an ecological study
(BioMed Central, 2018)
BACKGROUND: Peru has increased substantially its domestic public expenditure in maternal and child health. Peruvian departments are heterogeneous in contextual and geographic factors, underlining the importance of disaggregated ...
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 ...
Models of education in medicine, public health, and engineering
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2014)
Discussion on global health in both the academic and the public domain has focused largely on research, capacity building, and service delivery. Although these efforts along with financial commitments from public and private ...
Toward greater inclusion: Lessons from Peru in confronting challenges of multi-sector collaboration
(Pan American Health Organization, 2012)
Despite widespread enthusiasm for broader participation in health policy and programming, little is known about the ways in which multi-sector groups address the challenges that arise in pursuing this goal. Based on the ...
"Existimos": Health and social needs of transgender men in Lima, Peru
(Public Library of Science, 2021)
Background The health of transgender men (trans men)-individuals who identify as men and were assigned a female sex assigned at birth-is overlooked globally. This mixed-methods exploratory study sought to understand the ...
Comparing Indigenous and public health infant feeding recommendations in Peru: Opportunities for optimizing intercultural health policies
(BioMed Central, 2018-11)
Background: The problem of childhood undernutrition in low-income countries persists despite long-standing efforts by local governmental and international development agencies. In order to address this problem, the Peruvian ...