The statuses of vector-borne diseases have changed over recent years. How a few such diseases have changed and the primary causes of change (urbanization, increased conflict, changes in water-resource management, ecological and environmental change, and reduced health service resourcing) are the subjects of the present review. The key impacts which these primary causes have on selected vectors ...

BACKGROUND An integrated and comprehensive hospital/community based health programme is presented, aimed at reducing maternal and child mortality and morbidity. It is run as part of a general programme of health care at a rural hospital situated in northern Tanzania. The purpose was through using research and statistics from the programme area, to illustrate how a hospital-based programme with ...

Introduction Medical training in the UK has now changed with the development of Foundation Programmes (which includes the pre-registration House Officer year plus one additional year) providing two years of experience in a range of disciplines that may include acute medicine and 3 months Basic training in ICM [1]. The ICM training programme, being competency based, can inter link well with thes...

ABSTRACT The study assessed the use of rural radio as agricultural information dissemination tool among farmers in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State. The specific objectives were to: describe the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents, identify rural and agricultural programmes normally aired on radio, find out the level of patronage of the programmes, identify the convenien...

One of the most important modes of transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in areas where it is not endemic is vertical transmission: from mother to child. The objective of this report is to assess the efficacy of different programmes of serological screening to monitor infection with T. cruzi in pregnant Latin American women living in Madrid (Spain). To achieve this, a retrospective study ...

The health sector in many developing countries is undergoing restructuring to meet set goals, especially the health related Millennium Development Goals. To be able to monitor the performance of the health sector, an efficient Health Information System (HIS) is essential. This paper describes the process of implementing an online data warehouse based on the open source District Health Informati...

The delivery of child care has traditionally taken the form of "vertical" programmes with "standard" technical contents, largely based upon a few models from the developed countries. These models were based on the provision of continuous supervrsion and preventive care for mothers and ch ildren in affluent societies where coverage is good. Consequently, during even recent decades, ch ild health...

There is a trend in health systems around the world to place great emphasis on and faith in improving ‘leadership’. Leadership has been defined in many ways and the elitist implications of traditional notions of leadership sit uncomfortably with modern healthcare organisations. The concept of distributed leadership incorporates inclusivity, collectiveness and collaboration, with the result that...

background the need for competence training and development in health management and leadership workforces has been emphasised. however, evidence of the outcomes and impact of such training and development has not been systematically assessed. the aim of this review is to synthesise the available evidence of the outcomes and impact of training and development in relation to the competence of he...