Community-partnered contracts in developing countries

Community genetics in developing countries.

Strategies for community participation in developing countries.

Community participation has been hailed as the panacea for most community programmes. Community participation at high levels empowers communities, increases self-reliance, self-awareness and confidence in self-examination of problems and seeking solutions for them. Behavioural changes are promoted and utilisation and support of services is facilitated, which are of great importance to all commu...

Partnered care in the Bahamas: A model of advanced healthcare delivery for developing countries.

OBJECTIVE To assess the delivery of advanced specialized medical care using The Partnered Care Model as a means of providing affordable access to all, irrespective of ability to pay. DESIGN AND METHODS A retrospective analysis of all persons presenting to a specialized, private, cardiac unit, The Bahamas Interventional Cardiology Center (BICC), over an 8.5-year period from March 1996 to Septe...

The Hawthorne Effect in community trials in developing countries

COPCORD--an unrecognized fountainhead of community rheumatology in developing countries.