Health care reform — need for less emotion and more science

Need for more and better implementation science in global health

Correspondence to Professor Valéry Ridde; [email protected] ‘We know what we have to do, but we don’t know how to do it’ has been a recurring comment among global health actors for a long time. In 2010, for example, the United Nations affirmed that ‘we know what works’ in taking care of the health of women and children. The WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (2008) has ...

Health care in crisis: the need for medical liability reform.

Health education during antenatal care: the need for more

The aim of health education during antenatal is to provide advice, education, reassurance and support, to address and treat the minor problems of pregnancy, and to provide effective screening during the pregnancy. Exploring current practices in this regard revealed the need for more organized educational activities to ensure high quality and clients satisfaction.

Ailing Russian health-care system in urgent need of reform.

The Russian Federation needs to overhaul its corrupt and inefficient health-care system if it is to provide regular medical assistance and help the country fight an AIDS epidemic, officials have said. “We just cannot go on like this — slowly dying — any more. We need to keep the best of what has been achieved but finally bring the system in line with market realities,” said Tatyana Yakovleva, C...

Meeting the need of a rural state for primary care physicians: a health care reform challenge.

Access to vital health care services is currently unavailable to many of Kentucky’s estimated 671 434 uninsured in 20091 and inadequate for many more currently covered by health insurance. A sufficient number of physicians of all specialties, especially primary care, are necessary to ensure that appropriate care is available. On the basis of a 2007 study by the Kentucky Institute of Medicine,2 ...