Are more dangerous strains of tuberculosis spreading in Southern Africa? LSHTM investigators: Peter Godfrey-Faussett, Ruth McNerney, Kim Mallard, Helen Ayles. Collaborators: ZAMBIA: ZAMBART Project; University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka; MOH Chest Diseases Laboratory. Malawi: Community Health Sciences Unit of the Ministry of Health and National TB Programme; EQUI –TB Knowledge Programme (Liverpo...

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has published clinical practice guidelines on Bipolar Disorder to provide doctors and patients in Singapore with evidence-based guidance on the management of bipolar disorders. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary (with recommendations from the guidelines) from the MOH clinical practice guidelines on Bipolar Disorder, for the information of...

Eco – epidemiology: challenges and opportunities for tomorrow’s epidemiologists Luchuo Engelbert Bain, Paschal Kum Awah Centre for Population Studies and Health Promotion, Yaounde, Cameroon, Department of Military Health, Ministry of Defence, Yaounde, Cameroon, Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon Corresponding author: Luchuo Engelbert Bain, C...

CDC is assisting ministries of health and working with other organizations to end the ongoing epidemic of Ebola virus disease (Ebola) in West Africa. The updated data in this report were compiled from situation reports from the Guinea Interministerial Committee for Response Against the Ebola Virus, the Liberia Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanita...

Background: A systematic review of evaluations of innovative eHealth implementations was funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Health to inform information strategy. A key trend of interest to the Ministry was person-centered healthcare, including systems where health consumers use health information technology (IT) directly. Herein we report, analyze and reflect on the review findings with res...

after foundation of the educational development center (edc) in ministry of health and medical education in 1989, these centers were gradually established in universities of medical sciences in order to promote the quality of education. the necessity of establishment of edcs was tangibly revealed after integration of previous ministry of health and medical science faculties and establishment of...

given the importance of patient's rights in healthcare, special attention has been given to the concept of patient's rights by the ministry of health and medical education in iran. iranian patient's rights charter has been compiled with a novel and comprehensive approach. this charter aims to elucidate rights of recipients of health services as well as observing ethical standards in medicine. t...

assessing learners' needs is an integral part of any curriculum and course design , namely english for specific purposes (esp), syllabus design, materials development, teaching methods and testing issues. critical approach to needs analysis, which is a relatively recent approach, acknowledges the rights of different stakeholders including teachers, students and administrators in the process of ...