Health System Innovation in Lesotho: Design and early operations of the Maseru Public Private Integrated PartnershipPaul da RitaSarah Downs
Background Problem Solving for Better Health (PSBH ) is a system-strengthening workshop designed to empower healthcare workers (HCWs) to solve problems. We report on the perspectives of HCWs trained in PSBH to better understand the impact and challenges of PSBH in Lesotho, a country with among...
Community health workers in Lesotho: Experiences of health promotion activities Lesotho adopted primary health care in 1979, and community health workers (CHWs) were included in the programme to focus on health promotion, particularly ... S Thato,N Lizeka,B Nomonde - 《African Journal of ...
Lay health workers (LHWs) are individuals who participate in a variety of health services, even though they have no formal professional training. They have been used in a variety of settings, especially where health care needs outstrip available human resources. Lesotho faces a severe human resou...
This study used mixed methods to describe sexual identity, practices and health among women who have sex with women in Lesotho. Most respondents (48%) described themselves as lesbian, 29% as bisexual and 23% as heterosexual. Almost half (45%) had disclosed their same-sex attraction to family...
Hygiene and health education in primary schools in Lesothodoi:10.3362/0262-8104.1988.017Virginia DlangamandlaWaterlines
The Lesotho Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) Performance-Based Financing (PBF) Project seeks to improve the utilization and quality of maternal and newborn health services in selected districts in Lesotho. Negative impacts include: solid waste management, waste water disposal, health care waste gene...
In recent years, gender and sexual minorities have become increasingly visible across sub-Saharan Africa, marking both the progression and violation of their human rights. Using data from a study with sexual minorities in Lesotho, this analysis leveraged the social ecological model to examine relations...
Similar research with miners in Lesotho between 1999 and 2001 found similar mortality rates of around 29 per 1,000 for former gold miners [31]. In Crowsnest Pass, British Columbia, and Alberta, at the beginning of the 20th century, from 1902 to 1926, more than 450 men died in “...
[33] in Lesotho and South Africa, respectively. Beyond Africa, the importance of the number of physicians on infant and child mortality rates is also noted in the studies of Jebeli et al. [37] for 26 OECD countries, Muldoon et al. [57] for 136 UN member countries, Farahani et al. ...