Over the past decade, countries in the African region experienced slow progress in mobilizing resources for health while facing continued challenges. In their revised estimates published in 2017, Stenberg et al., developed two costs scenarios, termed progress and ambitious, aimed at strengthening co...mprehensive health service delivery to achieve SDG 3 and universal health coverage in low-income and middle-income countries (Stenberg et al., 2017). Out of the 47 countries in the WHO African region only eight, on average, met the recommended threshold of spending a minimum of US$ 249 per capita on health during the period from 2012 to 2020. In 2020, this achievement was observed in only five countries while the remaining countries spent less than US$ 249 per capita, with health expenditures ranging from US$ 16.4 to US$ 236.6, highlighting significant disparities across the region.
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O guia de campo apresenta os passos essenciais e dá orientações aos países sobre a adoção e utilização do c TPIg-c para o integrar no sistema de saúde existente. Baseia-se nas melhores práticas e nas lições aprendidas com as experiências de implementação piloto em oito países african...os, e destina-se às partes interessadas a nível nacional que estão envolvidas na prestação de serviços de saúde materna e infantil, incluindo os decisores políticos a nível nacional e local e os implementadores de programas de paludismo e saúde materna, infantil, reprodutiva e comunitária, assim como organizações não governamentais e outras.
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Module 11.
Objectifs du Module
À la fin de ce module, vous serez en mesure de :
• Comprendre le contexte global de la surveillance du paludisme
• Définir les concepts de base de la surveillance, les principes et la fonctionnalité
• Décrire la surveillance du paludisme dans divers cont...extes de transmission
• Reconnaitre les facteurs de risque
• Evaluer les performances d'un système de surveillance du paludisme
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La presente “Pautas de tratamiento en casos de malaria en la República Bolivariana de Venezuela” es un esfuerzo del Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud (MPPS), con el apoyo de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud / Organización Mundial de la Salud (OPS / OMS). En su elaboración ha...n participado expertos en malaria de las sociedades médicas, de los principales hospitales nacionales y estatales, quienes durante meses han realizado reuniones de trabajo, de campo, revisiones bibliográficas y actualizaciones terapéuticas, para finalmente, por consenso, aprobar la presente pauta. Este documento busca resumir de manera clara, la forma correcta de tratar a los pacientes con malaria o paludismo en todo el territorio nacional. De esta forma se busca que se estandaricen los pasos a seguir desde que se sospecha de un caso de malaria, el diagnóstico, el tratamiento, el seguimiento y alta de un paciente.
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Scaling Up Mental Health Care In Rural India
Compared to the previous five-year assessment period 2011–2015, the current five-year period 2015–2019 has seen a continued increase in carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emissions and an accelerated increase in the atmospheric concentration of major greenhouse gases (GHGs), with growth rates nearly 20% high...er. The increase in the oceanic CO2 concentration has increased the ocean’s acidity.
The five-year period 2015–20191 is likely to be the warmest of any equivalent period on record globally, with a 1.1 °C global temperature increase since the pre-industrial period and a 0.2 °C increase compared to the previous five-year period.
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Lancet Public Health 2018 Published Online September 12, 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S2468-2667(18)30138-5
Lancet Glob Health 2018, Published Online September 12, 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30387-5
22nd edition
The purpose of the SAHR has always been to analyse and assess progress and challenges in key areas of the health system, and to propose recommendations for improvement. We are pleased to continue this tradition in the 2019 edition, which presents a unique collection of perspectives on ...the key challenges in implementing universal health coverage (UHC) in South Africa, as analysed by experts in various fields.
Each of the 20 chapters deals with aspects of the UHC journey, dedicated towards an equitable and inclusive national health system that leaves no-one behind. While some authors describe the fundamental changes and practical considerations required to reconfigure the country's health system, others have reflected on specific programmatic areas and have made recommendations from a National Health Insurance (NHI)/UHC lens.
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In response to the recent publication “Is onchocerciasis elimination in Africa feasible by 2025: a perspective based on lessons learnt from the African control programmes” by Dadzie et al., it is important to clarify and highlight the positive and unequivocal research and operational contributio...ns from the American experience towards the worldwide elimination of human onchocerciasis (river blindness).
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Lancet Glob Health 2018 Published Online September 12, 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30407-8