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Too complicated for the field? Measuring quality of care in humanitarian aid settings

Too complicated for the field? Measuring quality of care in humanitarian aid settings

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By Roland Kersten, Götz Bosse, Frank Dörner, Andrej Slavuckij, Gustavo Fernandez, Michael Marx While quality of care is a major concern in the western world, not many studies investigate this topic in lowincome countries. Even less is known about the quality of care in humanitarian aid settings, where additional challenges from natural or manmade disasters contribute to additional challenges. This study tried to address this gap by introducing a new approach to systematically measure quality more...

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Umeå Centre for... on May 17, 2013

New guide makes data on young people’s sexual health and rights more accessible

New guide makes data on young people’s sexual health and rights more accessible

Working in partnership with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Guttmacher has created a new resource that provides clear explanations of a comprehensive set of indicators of adolescent sexual health and rights and guidance on how to effectively use these data in a variety of contexts including advocacy, sexuality education and service delivery. The guide also provides a wealth of data for 30 featured countries...more Please visit our Web site to download the guide and more...

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Melissa Martin on May 15, 2013

Primary healthcare providers’ views on improving sexual and reproductive healthcare for adolescents in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua

Primary healthcare providers’ views on improving sexual and reproductive healthcare for adolescents in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua

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By Lina Jaruseviciene, Miguel Orozco, Marcia Ibarra, Freddy Cordova Ossio, Bernardo Vega, Nancy Auquilla, Joel Medina, Anna C. Gorter, Peter Decat, Sara De Meyer, Marleen Temmerman, Alexander B. Edmonds, Leonas Valius, Jeffrey V. Lazarus Objectives: To elicit the views of primary healthcare providers from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua on how adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) care in their communities can be improved. Methods: Overall, 126 healthcare providers (46 from Bolivia more...

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Umeå Centre for... on May 15, 2013

Reviews: To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation

Reviews: To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation

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Paul Edward Farmer is best known for his humanitarian work providing "first world" health care for "third world" people, beginning in Haiti. He is co-founder of the international social justice and health organization Partners In Health (PIH). To Repair the World is a recently published a collection of his short speeches on the reform of health service systems, especially those serving the poor in poor countries. This website from GoodReads.com provides reviews of the book, and will more...

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John Daly on May 15, 2013

Correlates of physical activity in adolescence: a study from a developing country

Correlates of physical activity in adolescence: a study from a developing country

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By Behjat Shokrvash, Fereshteh Majlessi, Ali Montazeri, Saharnaz Nadjat, Abbas Rahimi, Abolgasem Djazayeri, Davoud Shojaeezadeh Background: Physical activity is important for adolescent health. The current study aimed to explore factors that predict physical activity among adolescents. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of physical activity among a sample of adolescents in Tabriz, Iran. Information on physical activity was collected using a modified version of the Adolescent Physical more...

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Umeå Centre for... on May 13, 2013

Health, Education, Social Protection News & Notes 10/2013

Health, Education, Social Protection News & Notes 10/2013

A bi-weekly newsletter supported by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit). The newsletter is between 25 and 35 pages in Adobe PDF format - usually not larger than 650 kB and deals with summaries of books, online publications, electronic resources, web pages, training opportunities, conferences and computer and internet tips & tricks. You can download and search back issues (2005 - 2012) of this newsletter at: http://german-practice-collection.org/en/links/ more...

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Dieter Neuvians on May 12, 2013

The role of home-based records in the establishment of a continuum of care for mothers, newborns, and children in Indonesia

The role of home-based records in the establishment of a continuum of care for mothers, newborns, and children in Indonesia

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By Keiko Osaki, Tomoko Hattori, Soewarta Kosen Background: The provision of appropriate care along the continuum of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) service delivery is a challenge in developing countries. To improve this, in the 1990s, Indonesia introduced the maternal and child health (MCH) handbook, as an integrated form of parallel home-based records. Objective: This study aimed to identify the roles of home-based records both before and after childbirth, especially in provinces more...

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Umeå Centre for... on May 10, 2013

Routine vaccination coverage in low- and middle-income countries: further arguments for accelerating support to child vaccination services

Routine vaccination coverage in low- and middle-income countries: further arguments for accelerating support to child vaccination services

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By Wenjing Tao, Max Petzold, Birger C. Forsberg Background and objective: The Expanded Programme on Immunization was introduced by the World Health Organization (WHO) in all countries during the 1970s. Currently, this effective public health intervention is still not accessible to all. This study evaluates the change in routine vaccination coverage over time based on survey data and compares it to estimations by the WHO and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Design: Data of vaccination more...

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Umeå Centre for... on May 10, 2013

Global health education: a pilot in trans-disciplinary, digital instruction

Global health education: a pilot in trans-disciplinary, digital instruction

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By Heather Wipfli, David J. Press, Virginia Kuhn Background: The development of new global health academic programs provides unique opportunities to create innovative educational approaches within and across universities. Recent evidence suggests that digital media technologies may provide feasible and cost-effective alternatives to traditional classroom instruction; yet, many emerging global health academic programs lag behind in the utilization of modern technologies. Objective: We created more...

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Umeå Centre for... on May 10, 2013

Utility of knowledge, attitude, and practice survey, and prevalence of dental caries among 11- to 13-year-old children in an urban community in India

Utility of knowledge, attitude, and practice survey, and prevalence of dental caries among 11- to 13-year-old children in an urban community in India

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By Baranya Shrikrishna Suprabha, Arathi Rao, Ramya Shenoy, Sanskriti Khanal Background: The school oral health education program is believed to be a cost-effective method for promoting oral health. The KAP (knowledge-attitude-practice) model of oral health education is often the foundation of most health education programs. Objectives: To assess the existing knowledge, attitude, and oral health care practices among 11- to 13-year-old children and the association of knowledge with attitude, more...

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Umeå Centre for... on May 10, 2013

Setting the scene: Assessing and planning with harm reduction partners

(c) Nell Freeman for the Alliance

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This report summarises the results of site assessments on HIV and drug use in China, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Malaysia. The assessments were conducted by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and their teams of experts in four technical areas: HIV prevention services for people who inject drugsHIV and drug-related policy and environmentorganisational development issuesmonitoring and evaluation of interventions. The assessments were conducted to guide planning for the Community Action on Harm more...

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AIDS Alliance on May 8, 2013

Building Health Systems from Scratch in Somalia

Building Health Systems from Scratch in Somalia

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Lul Mohamed, director of the paediatric ward at Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, treated five children after two bomb attacks killed 30 people on 14 April. "And they were shooting last night. One died, a bullet in his liver," she said of an eight-year-old boy. Yet these are conditions of relative peace in Mogadishu. While the conflict is not over, insecurity has diminished since the withdrawal of insurgent group Al-Shabab in 2011. This relative security is allowing Mohamed to more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 28, 2013

Solvency II Insurance Industry Market Europe

Solvency II Insurance Industry Market

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The Solvency II Directive can be considered the ‘gold standard’ in insurance regulation, as it requires insurers to address all the foreseeable risks that may affect their business structure. It is also being looked upon as a global benchmark in insurance regulation due to its comprehensive scope and structure. The predominant objective of this new regime is to stonewall the interests of policyholders and ultimate devisees, by adopting risk management at the core of insurance business processes more...

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Paul Thomen on April 25, 2013

Implementation of misoprostol for postabortion care in Kenya and Uganda: a project evaluation

Implementation of misoprostol for postabortion care in Kenya and Uganda: a project evaluation

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By Joachim Osur, Traci L. Baird, Brooke A. Levandowski, Emily Jackson, Daniel Murokora Objective: Evaluate implementation of misoprostol for postabortion care (MPAC) in two African countries. Design: Qualitative, program evaluation. Setting: Twenty-five public and private health facilities in Rift Valley Province, Kenya, and Kampala Province, Uganda. Sample: Forty-five MPAC providers, health facility managers, Ministry of Health officials, and nongovernmental (NGO) staff involved in program more...

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Umeå Centre for... on April 24, 2013

Improving outcomes and supporting transparency

Improving outcomes and supporting transparency

rcpsych.ac.uk –

The new Public Health Outcomes Framework is in three parts. Part 1 – this document – introduces the overarching vision for public health, the outcomes we want to achieve and the indicators that will help us understand how well we are improving and protecting health. Part 2 specifies all the technical details we can currently supply for each public health indicator and indicates where we will conduct further work to fully specify all indicators. Part 3 consists of the impact assessment and more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 23, 2013

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