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Strengthening Primary Health Care Through Community Health Workers: Investment Case And Financing Recommendations [PDF]

, 2015
A report released this week at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development found that there is a strong case for investing in Community Health Worker (CHW) programs as part of integrated health systems.
Addis Tamire Woldemariam, Akiko Maeda, Bernice Dahn, Chunling Lu, Drew Von Glahn, Henry Perry, Katy Vosburg   +6 more
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Health Financing Revisited [PDF]

, 2006
This overview of health financing tools, policies and trends--with a particular focus on challenges facing developing countries--provides the basis for effective policy-making. Analyzing the current global environment, the book discusses health financing goals in the context of both the underlying health, demographic, social, economic, political and ...
Pablo Gottret, George Schieber
openaire   +2 more sources

Clinical Insights Into Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in Childhood

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) is a rare but life‐threatening metabolic emergency in children that occurs in less than 1% of pediatric cancer cases, with a reported incidence ranging from 0.4% to 1.0% across different studies. While it is observed in 10%–20% of adult malignancies, pediatric HCM remains relatively uncommon.
Hüseyin Anıl Korkmaz
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of socioeconomic and health vulnerability among urban slum dwellers in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health
Background Bangladesh is rapidly urbanizing and approximately half of its urban population resides in deprived slums with limited access to basic needs. However, there is a dearth of information on vulnerability levels among slum dwellers.
Md Zahid Hasan, Md Golam Rabbani, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Gazi Golam Mehdi, Khadija Islam Tisha, Daniel D. Reidpath, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Guide posts for investment in primary health care and projected resource needs in 67 low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

The Lancet Global Health, 2019
Summary: Background: Primary health care (PHC) is a driving force for advancing towards universal health coverage (UHC). PHC-oriented health systems bring enormous benefits but require substantial financial investments.
Karin Stenberg, MSc, Odd Hanssen, MSc, Melanie Bertram, PhD, Callum Brindley, BEcon, Andreia Meshreky, MSc, Shannon Barkley, MD, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, MD   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Survival Outcomes and Complications Among Canadian Children With Retinoblastoma: A Population‐Based Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine, Ofélie Trudeau‐Ferrin, Caroline Laverdière, Patrick Hamel, Rosanne Superstein, Bénédicte Koukoui, Carole Provost, Paul C. Nathan, Vijay Ramaswamy, Furqan Shaikh, Brenda Gallie, Ashwin Mallipatna, Stephanie Kletke, Helen Dimaras, Hallie Coltin   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of a pilot urban primary healthcare model on the use of medically trained healthcare providers among the low-income slum populations in Bangladesh: findings from an implementation research study

International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Delivering quality primary healthcare to the urban population has been challenging in many developing countries including Bangladesh. With a fragmented and pluralistic urban health system, the country experiences major hurdles in the provision
Md. Golam Rabbani, Zakir Hossain, Khadija Islam Tisha, Kamrun Nahar, Zillur Rahman Sakin, Towhida Nasrin, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Md. Zahid Hasan, Chandrasegarar Soloman, Margub Aref Jahangir, Maya Vandenent, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cost-effectiveness analysis of introducing universal childhood rotavirus vaccination in Bangladesh

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2018
Diarrhea is one of the world's leading killers of children, and globally, rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhea among under 5 children. In Bangladesh, rotavirus kills nearly 6,000 under 5 children in each year.
Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Robert Van Der Meer, Alec Morton   +4 more
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Personalized Selumetinib Dosing in Pediatric Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Insights From a Pilot Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate selumetinib exposure using therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and plexiform neurofibromas (PN), assess interpatient pharmacokinetic variability, and explore the relationship between drug exposure, clinical response, and adverse effects.
Janka Kovács, Zoltán Köllő, Balázs Gellért Karvaly, Mahmoud Obeidat, Rita Nagy, Péter Hegyi, Brigitta Teutsch, Eszter Tuboly, Miklós Garami   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pooling arrangements in health financing systems: a proposed classification

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Objectives The function of pooling and the ways that countries organize this is critical for countries’ progress towards universal health coverage, but its potential as a policy instrument has not received much attention.
Inke Mathauer, Priyanka Saksena, Joe Kutzin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source