Preventable hysterectomies in Malawi: Addressing challenges in the healthcare systemGender Equality ActHysterectomyMalawiOmbudsmanPost-cesarean infectionsReproductive healthReproductive rightsWoes of the WombMalawi has the obligation to respect, protect and fulfill women's right to the highest attainable standard...
Moving towards a mixed health care system in MalawiNgalande Banda, E. E.Simukonda, H. P. M.HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING
Moreover, the analysis shows that the healthcare system could become overwhelmed if patients were more likely to seek care. It is not yet known what the health consequences of such changes would be but this new model provides—for the first time—a means to examine such questions....
The geographical distribution of Malawi's health-care system is shown in figure 1B. Many of the health-care facilities in rural areas are small, with some treating as few as five people living with HIV. The largest health-care facility, which is in the capital city (Lilongwe), provides ...
It is remarkable that a developed, resource-rich health care system such as the United Kingdom's NHS still persists with the archaic practice of keeping patients waiting at least a week to receive a result. The Malawian experience of destigmatizing and simplifying on-the-spot testing may be...
Purpose: With the emergence of radiosurgery as a new radiotheraputic technique, health care decision makers are required to incorporate community need, cos... Greenspoon,N J.,Whelan,... - 《Journal of Radiosurgery & Sbrt Supplement》 被引量: 1发表: 2013年 Barriers to accessing care in patien...
HSAs supervise community activities, village clinics, immunization, and household-level care but are significantly understaffed and overworked within the healthcare system [26]. Thus, the CHWs act as “foot soldiers” for the HSAs within the community at a household level, providing screening, ...
However, due to colonization and a continued maintenance thereafter of negative perceptions towards its use, it has failed to penetrate the healthcare system. This paper argues that the language which is used in the discourses of the system partly takes the blame as it erases the existence of ...
The incidence ofHIV/AIDSin Malawi—some one-seventh of the population is infected—is among the highest rates in the world, further taxing the country’s overburdened health care system. In response to the HIV/AIDS crisis, a number of majorinitiativeshave been developed, including the National...
Access to and utilisation of quality healthcare promotes positive child health outcomes. However, to be optimally utilised, the healthcare system needs to be responsive to the expectations of the population it serves. Health systems in many sub-Saharan African countries, including Malawi, have histor...