To make the best use of health resources, it is crucial to understand the healthcare needs of a population—including how needs will evolve and respond to changing epidemiological context and patient behaviour—and how this compares to the capabilities to deliver healthcare with the existing workfor...
The pathways explain from 46 to 65 percent of the program impact, advancing our understanding of how economic interventions can affect mental health of youth in resource-poor settings. The findings underline that unconditional cash grants, which are used on an increasingly large scale as part of ...
Mental health policyCore concepts of human rightsVulnerable groupsMalawiNamibiaSudanIn recent decades, there has been a push to incorporate the World Health Organization "Health for All" principles in national, regional, and local health policy documents. However, there is still no methodology guiding...
On child health and malnutrition, we found that CHWs spent only a median of 3 and 2 min, respectively, with few touches for both health areas. This finding could be explained in part due to a “no-touch” policy introduced for COVID-19 infection control with a lack of personal protective...
Section 2 of the Domestic Violence Act of 2010 defines domestic violence as, Any act or omission of a perpetrator which (a) harms, injures or endangers the health, safety, life, limb, or well-being, whether mental or physical, of the victim or tends 6 PALGRAVE COMMUNICATIONS | 2:16069 ...
The hospital policy also encourages male involvement in maternal health care. Blantyre Adventist Hospital is located at the centre of Blantyre city. The American missionary doctors of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church established the hospital in 1957. It is a forty bedded private-for-profit hospital....
which has a deleterious effect on women. A number of policies such as National Action Plan on Women, the Gender Policy, and the National Action Plan on Sexual and GBV have provisions promoting women’s equality and aimed at reducing GBV. Yet the laws and policies amounted to mere rhetoric ...
Healthcare worker HIC: High-income country HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus H: Hours ICU: Intensive care unit IM: Intramuscular INR: International normalised ratio IQR: Interquartile range IV: Intravenous LIC: Low-income country LMIC: Low- and middle-income country MECC: Malawi ...
Greco Standard indicators of wellbeing such as the QALY for health and GDP per capita for economic development have been increasingly regarded by academics and policy makers as being too narrow in focus. They fail to address the complexity of human nature, social progress, and issues of equity ...
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