BACKGROUND Health workers' malaria case-management practices often differ from national guidelines. We assessed whether text-message reminders sent to health workers' mobile phones could improve and maintain their adherence to treatment guidelines for outpatient paediatric malaria in Kenya. METHODS From March 6, 2009, to May 31, 2010, we did a cluster-randomised controlled trial at 107 rural ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate, in a developing country, the effect of a short training programme for general health care workers on the management of common skin diseases--a neglected component of primary health care in such regions. METHODS We provided a one-day training programme on the management of the skin diseases to 400 health care workers who worked in primary health care centres in the Bamak...

BACKGROUND In 2013, 78% of malaria deaths occurred in children aged 5 years and below, in sub-Saharan Africa. Treatment of severe malaria requires a health facility with inpatient care. However, in most sub-Sahara African countries, access to health facilities is a major problem. Pre-referral antimalarial treatments aim to delay the progress of severe malaria as patients seek to access health f...

Background: The global drive to scale up mental health services and eliminate the treatment gap requires incorporating into primary care (PHC). Primary provides comprehensive, continuous, coordinated if need be referrals higher levels of care. However, for these meet basic objective PHC, it is necessary determine healthcare workers’ preparedness caring mentally ill. Therefore, this study aimed ...

the reference charts for mid upper arm (muac), chest (chc) and head (hc) circumferences of a cohort of 317 healthy infants (153 boys and 164 girls) born in shiraz (southern iran) and monitored from birth for 2 years are presented. centiles for muac and hc lie below the netherlands and us subjects respectively. however, there is no suggestion of ill health for iranian subjects. the use of locall...

Globally, health worker shortages continue to plague developing countries. Community health workers are increasingly being promoted to extend primary health care to underserved populations. Since 2004, Healthy Child Uganda (HCU) has trained volunteer community health workers in child health promotion in rural southwest Uganda. This study analyses the retention and motivation of volunteer commun...

Abstract Identifying women with depressive symptoms is the first step to reducing risk of short-term and long-term consequences antenatal depression. Task shifting by training primary healthcare workers may help reduce burden in low-resource settings. Twenty health a center urban Bengaluru were trained screen identify The had two components: knowledge-based, using depression module Mental Healt...

BACKGROUND Wellbeing of healthcare workers is important for the effective functioning of health systems. The aim of this study was to explore the conceptualisations of wellbeing, stress and burnout among healthcare workers in primary healthcare settings in rural Ethiopia in order to inform the development of contextually appropriate interventions. METHODS A qualitative study was conducted in ...