Capacity Building in Nurturing Care in Serbia

Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Managers’ Performance in West Asia

Building capacity for African Primary Care Research

Copyright: © 2014. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Given the huge burden of disease and the relatively small number of healthcare workers in Africa, the need for strong primary health care and well-trained generalists is high.1,2 Primary health care is needed ‘now, more than ever’ if universal health care coverage ...

Psychogeriatric care: building rural community capacity.

INTRODUCTION Since the late 1980s, British Columbia (BC) Canada has been undergoing a process of regionalization of health services which includes decentralization and the demand for self-sufficiency with respect to caring for people with mental health issues. In BC, regionalization has meant the continued downsizing of its one large provincial psychiatric hospital Riverview, which has resulted...

A framework to evaluate research capacity building in health care

BACKGROUND Building research capacity in health services has been recognised internationally as important in order to produce a sound evidence base for decision-making in policy and practice. Activities to increase research capacity for, within, and by practice include initiatives to support individuals and teams, organisations and networks. Little has been discussed or concluded about how to m...

Building capacity for acute care in developing countries.

The article provides a 'short journey' to neighbours in the Australasian region to highlight some innovation in health policy, rural health education, and professional teams, in developing countries. The innovations are described and challenges discussed.