Supporting safe motherhood : a review of financial trends : summary [PDF]
An estimated 500,000 women, 99 percent of them from the developing world, die each year from pregnancy-related causes. About three quarters of these deaths are the direct result of obstetrical complications -- hemorrhage, infection, toxemia, obstructed ...
Howard, L. M.
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Research-Practice-Policy Partnerships for Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Child Welfare and Child Mental Health [PDF]
Partnerships between researchers, practitioners, and policymakers represent a promising avenue for improving outcomes for young people and families.In a new report, Lawrence Palinkas, Cherry Short, and Marleen Wong of the University of Southern ...
Cherry Short +2 more
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Medical data processing and analysis for remote health and activities monitoring [PDF]
Recent developments in sensor technology, wearable computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and wireless communication have given rise to research in ubiquitous healthcare and remote monitoring of human\u2019s health and activities. Health monitoring systems
Hosseinpour F. +14 more
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Report on the evaluation of surveillance systems relevant to zoonotic diseases in Kenya, 2015: A basis for design of an integrated human–livestock surveillance system [PDF]
The Zoonoses in Livestock in Kenya (ZooLinK) is a project that seeks to enable Kenya develop an effective surveillance programme for zoonotic diseases (infectious diseases transmissible between animals and human beings).
Ndeda, C., Ngere, I., Omondi, M.
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Strengthening health-related rehabilitation services at national levels. [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: One of the aims of the World Health Organization\u27s Global Disability Action Plan is to strengthen rehabilitation services. Some countries have requested support to develop (scale-up) rehabilitation services.
Bickenbach, Jerome +4 more
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Background The working population encounters unique work-related stressors. Despite these challenges, accessibility to mental healthcare remains limited.
Xinyi Casuarine Low +4 more
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The International Right to Health: What Does It Mean in Legal Practice and How Can It Affect Priority Setting for Universal Health Coverage? [PDF]
The international right to health is enshrined in national and international law. In a growing number of cases, individuals denied access to high-cost medicines and technologies under universal coverage systems have turned to the courts to challenge the ...
Chalkidou, Kalipso +4 more
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Effective strategies for scaling up evidence-based practices in primary care: a systematic review
Background While an extensive array of existing evidence-based practices (EBPs) have the potential to improve patient outcomes, little is known about how to implement EBPs on a larger scale.
Ali Ben Charif +8 more
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Analysing regulatory systems in mixed public-private health systems: a new assessment tool and its application in India [PDF]
Health systems in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the Asia-Pacific region can be characterised as mixed public-private systems, with common features such as blurred boundaries between public and private sectors, low government ...
Krishna Hort
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Model Driven Development of m-Health Systems (with a Touch of Formality) [PDF]
We propose a model driven design and development methodology augmented with formal validation and verification (V&V) for the development of mobile health systems.
Jones, Val
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