1 Department of Gastroenterology, Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 2 Department of Radiology, Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 3 ICU-Toxicology Department, Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania Corresponding author: Madalina Ilie Department of Gastroenterology, Clinical Emergency Hospital, 8th Floreasca Avenue, 1st District, Bucharest, Romania. E-mail: dr...

An assessment was done in Tanzania to determine the extent to which the primary health care services have contributed to reducing the burden of malaria since the system was initiated in the 1980s. Seven descriptive processes and outcome indicators of effectiveness were used: changes of malaria transmission and incidence over time; use of facility-based care services for malaria; patients' acces...

OBJECTIVE Snakebite is a serious medical problem in Paschim Medinipur district, West Bengal, India. In the present study, hospital based data on snakebite cases and deaths were collected from 10 blocks of the district to obtain a picture of this neglected public health issue. METHODS Retrospective data of snakebite and deaths from 2012 to 2016 was collected from the 5 Rural hospitals (RH) and...

OBJECTIVES To explore the experiences, acceptance, and effects of conducting facility death review (FDR) of maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths at or below the district level in Bangladesh. METHODS This was a qualitative study with healthcare providers involved in FDRs. Two districts were studied: Thakurgaon district (a pilot district) and Jamalpur district (randomly selected from th...

Stefanie Leung, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney Rachel Chapman, Oncology, Prince of Wales Hospital Raimondo Bruno, Department of Psychology, University of Tasmania Michael Lenne, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Monash University Paul Haber, Drug Health Services, South Local Health District Nicholas Lintzeris, Drug and Alcohol Services, South Eastern Sydney Local Health...

Tilley DM1,2, Dubedat SM3, Lowe P4, Templeton DJ1,5,6 1Sexual Health Service, Community Health, Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia 2Women’s Health Service, Community Health, Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia 3Department of Microbiology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia 4Hologic (Australia) Pty Ltd 5The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Syd...

1 Department of Surgery,Tianjin Nankai Hospital, Nankai Clinical School of Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, 122 Sanwei Road Nankai District, Tianjin300100,China 2 Institute of Molecular Biology, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road Nankai District, Tianjin300071,China *Corresponding author Email addresses: YFC: [email protected] ZLL: [email protected] YFJ: [email protected]...

BACKGROUND In low-resource settings, access to emergency cesarean section is associated with various delays leading to poor neonatal outcomes. In this study, we described the delays a mother faces when needing emergency cesarean delivery and assessed the effect of these delays on neonatal outcomes in Rwanda. METHODS This retrospective study included 441 neonates and their mothers who underwen...

BACKGROUND Surgical conditions contribute significantly to the disease burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet there is an apparent neglect of surgical care as a public health intervention to counter this burden. There is increasing enthusiasm to reverse this trend, by promoting essential surgical services at the district hospital, the first point of contact for critical conditions for rural populati...