The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank and WHO has been supporting research capacity strengthening in low- and middle-income countries for over 40 years. In order to assess and continuously optimize its capacity strengthening approaches, an evaluation of the influence of TDR training grants on research career developme...

Climate change and its negative impacts on health are now globally recognized. A wide variety of diseases and health conditions - ranging from heat and radiation-related illnesses to water and vector-borne diseases, under-nutrition, respiratory and cardiac problems, drowning, injuries and mental stress arising from extreme and sudden weather events and their resultant population displacements -...

OBJECTIVE This paper identifies the key barriers to mental health policy implementation in Ghana and suggests ways of overcoming them. METHOD The study used both quantitative and qualitative methods. Quantitatively, the WHO Mental Health Policy and Plan Checklist and the WHO Mental Health Legislation Checklist were employed to analyse the content of mental health policy, plans and legislation...

Primary health care is the essential service provided at grassroot level. Over years implementation of Health Care (PHC) programmes in Edo state are bedeviled with associated challenges such as limited community participation, great communication gap that limit evaluation processes PHC programme and slow pace collaboration among stakeholders. These need to be averted through effective people or...

Background: Intersectoral health promotion initiatives in Chile to address obesity and non- communicable diseases have had a long history Chile, but also high degree of changes their design, implementation, financing.

The sustainable development of regional enterprises is negatively affected by uncertainty arising from external factors the current economic crisis. Due to resultant inconsistencies in their interaction, these entities may experience reduced inno- vativeness. Therefore, it becomes necessary derive synergies diversified resources industrial enterprises, science and education. research aims devel...