Approaches to integrating palliative care into African health systems: a qualitative systematic review

Integrating AYUSH into Palliative Care

Marcia Angell in an editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1998 stated “There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not, medicine that works and medicine that may or may not work. Once a treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered...

Integrating qualitative approaches into a modeling system

The key to integrating a biological index to output from the SWAT/HUMUS model is to develop a relationship between the pertinent output from SWAT (nutrients and sediment) to the biological index. Wang et al. (2007) began developing the relationship between nutrients and assemblages of fish and macroinvertebrates in 240 wadeable streams in Wisconsin. From their sampling data they were able to de...

Integrating palliative care into national health systems in Africa: a multi–country intervention study

BACKGROUND The WHO is calling for the integration of palliative care in all health care settings globally. METHODS A 3.5-year program was implemented in 12 government hospitals, three each in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. A four-pillared approach of advocacy, staff training, service delivery strengthening and international and regional partnership working was utilized. A baseline assessme...

A Systematic Review Opportunities and Challenges of Tele-cardiology in Health Care Systems

Aim: Telecardiology provides a useful diagnostic tool for accurate and rapid diagnosis of patients with cardiac disorders to specialist and general practitioners. In this study, a systematic review was conducted to identify effective components and approaches in Telecardiology, such as the opportunities and challenges of applying this system in different domains. Information sources or data: T...

Integrating palliative care into nursing homes.