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...
Health System Innovation in Lesotho: Design and early operations of the Maseru Public Private Integrated PartnershipPaul da RitaSarah Downs
… that targeted, well-executed health mass media campaigns can have small to moderate effects not only on health knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes, but on behaviours as well, which can translate into major public health impact given the wide reach...
PHC offers treatment and care in continuum that is supported by a facility-linked home-based care system and a referral system. While PHC is global, its operation and functioning in the area of community health provisioning varies across communities. The main objective of this study is to find...
The health care system in general is overwhelmed by the number of people infected with HIV/AIDS, and there is a lack of medical supplies and properly trained personnel. Housing Lesotho: traditional housingA traditional circular hut, Lesotho.(more) The capital, Maseru, consists of a modern city...
Over the years, the team continues to assist the MOH with mental health system decentralization, reform, and strengthening in Berea and Butha-Buthe Districts, informed by operational research conducted in 2022 and theMental Health Value Chain. The team travels bi-weekly to these two districts to...
system with appropriate color coding for medical staff to separate all hospital waste accordingly; all infectious waste including sharps and used needles must be incinerated before disposal; employ a system of medical wastewater management that ensures that no chemicals and pathogens from health ...
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The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) is a validated intervention that can be provided by non-specialised healthcare workers to individuals with unhealthy alcohol use. However, it typically requires several in-person sessions at a health facility, which ...
(In 1868, Moshoeshoe I concluded a “protection treaty” with Great Britain; in 1871 the territory of Lesotho was transferred to the Cape Colony, and in 1884 it was officially declared a protectorate of Great Britain.) Having established a system of “indirect rule” (through a council of ...