This special issue on Newborn Health in Global Health Action is being launched to share the experience of how to scale up a cost-effective package of newborn care that involves families, community health workers and health facilities. The results of this community randomized trial, the Uganda Newbor...n Study (UNEST), show that home visits in pregnancy and soon after delivery resulted in improved breastfeeding practices, skin-to-skin care immediately after birth, delaying a baby’s first bath, and hygienic care of the baby’s umbilical cord among the poorest households with lowest access to care.
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Ghana is attracting global attention for efforts to provide health insurance to all citizens through the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). With the program’s strong emphasis on maternal and child health, an expectation of the program is that members will have increased use of relevant servi...ces. The NHIS does appear to enable pregnant women to access services and allow caregivers to seek care early for sick children, but both the quantitative and qualitative assessments also indicated that the poor and least educated were less likely to have insurance than their wealthier and more educated counterparts.
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El presente manual trata de proporcionar información sencilla, adecuada y basada en datos
científicos a los prestadores de servicios de salud, especialmente en los países de ingresos bajos y medios, para que puedan administrar tratamientos farmacológicos a las personas con trastornos mentales. ...Se espera que con este manual aumente el conocimiento y la competencia de los prestadores de servicios de salud que se hallan al frente de la prestación de asistencia sanitaria en sistemas de salud con recursos escasos.
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