"Every day I dream ..." An interview with the Rwandan Health Minister.

نویسندگان

  • Paolo Mirco Suter
  • Walter Wahli
چکیده

The Honourable Agnes Binagwaho MD PhD has been the Minister for Health of the Republic of Rwanda since 2011. With extensive professional clinical experience as a paediatrician, she seems to be the ideal Minister of Health and her achievements thus far have proved this. Just recently in 2015, the Honourable Minister was awarded the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation’s Roux Prize, the largest international award for evidence-based public health achievements. In the weeks after 6 April 1994, Rwanda’s development status was crippled by the shattering effects of the Geno-

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Self-reported pregnancy-related health problems and self-rated health status in Rwandan women postpartum: a population-based cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND Self-rated health status (SRH) can be used as a predictor of morbidity and mortality. Postpartum self-rated health has been used to estimate maternal morbidity and postpartum problems. Reproductive history factors are associated with poor self-rated health postpartum. This study investigated prevalence of self-reported health problems during first, second, and third trimesters of pre...

متن کامل

A replication of the 5-7 day dream-lag effect with comparison of dreams to future events as control for baseline matching.

The dream-lag effect refers to there being, after the frequent incorporation of memory elements from the previous day into dreams (the day-residue), a lower incorporation of memory elements from 2 to 4 days before the dream, but then an increased incorporation of memory elements from 5 to 7 days before the dream. Participants (n=8, all female) kept a daily diary and a dream diary for 14 days an...

متن کامل

Interv iew China’s Latest Health Reforms: A Conversation With Chinese Health Minister

Chen Zhu, a hematologist and Ph.D. systems biologist, became Chinese health minister in 2007 after serving as vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2000–2007); he is a member of three national academies of science (Chinese, U.S., and French) and one of only two Chinese cabinet members who are not Communist Party members. In this interview by Tsung-Mei Cheng, Minister Chen discusses...

متن کامل

Anne McLellan: new direction from a new minister?

minister last January, Anne McLellan was off and running. On CTV’s Question Period, the new minister broke a Liberal taboo by raising the possibility that companies could build and run private hospitals that might be allowed to operate within the Canadian health care system. “Does corporate structure necessarily matter in terms of a hospital, as long as when I take my Alberta health card they t...

متن کامل

Explaining the Role of Economic and Social Capital in Shaping Social Aspirations: A Case study on the Youth Living in Tehran

Extended Abstract Introduction: For the first time, the concept of American Dream was used by James Adams in 1931, and his idea of United States of America as a land where dreams will be fullfield, and life for everyone will be more comfortable and acceptable. In the United States (US) people must have equal opportunities for success. This dream is not the dream of having luxuary cars and roya...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من

ذخیره در منابع من قبلا به منابع من ذحیره شده

{@ msg_add @}


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

عنوان ژورنال:
  • Swiss medical weekly

دوره 146  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016