P Santa-Olalla Peralta ([email protected])1, J M Mayoral Cortés2, M J Sierra-Moros1 1. Centro de Coordinación de Alertas y Emergencias Sanitarias (Coordinating Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies), Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad (Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equity), Madrid, Spain 2. S.G. Salud Pública y Participación, Consejería de Salud, Junta de Anda...

BACKGROUND The Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses is the main approach for treating children in more than 100 low income countries worldwide. In 2007, the World Health Assembly urged countries to integrate 'better medicines for children' into their essential medicines lists and treatment guidelines. WHO regularly provides generic algorithms for IMCI and publishes the Model Essential M...

hen the Sisters arrived in the U.S. carrying only their ...” Many formation programs for health care ministry leaders begin by retelling the stories of the founders, then inviting participants to tell the stories of their own connections to Catholic health care. This is because we are familiar with the power of story to inspire, to create meaning, to deepen identity, purpose and belonging, and ...

Author details Bio-statistical Unit, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel. Biomathematics Unit, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel. Public Health Services, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel. Faculty for Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the N...

In 2006 the UK based charity ‘Health Improvement Project Zanzibar’ (HIPZ) was established to try and combat this. An agreement was reached with the Ministry of Health that gave HIPZ direct control over the rural hospital at Makunduchi for 10 years. The model centres on sending volunteer doctors out for 6 month sabbaticals where they live and work alongside local staff, immerse themselves in the...

background: we aimed to assess the impact of health workers’ training program on preventive behaviors of leishmaniosis based on basnef (belief, attitude, subjective norm, and enabling factors) model in the families under the coverage of health centers. methods: the study was done in rural health centers of marvdasht city, fars province, iran in 2011. health workers completed a specific question...

1. Division of Population Health and Immunity, The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia 2. Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 3. The National Health Training and Research Institute, Ministry of Health, Solomon Islands 4. National Vector Borne Disease Control Program, Ministry of Health, Solomon Islands 5. School of Pop...

OBJECTIVE To summarize the epidemiological situation of tuberculosis (TB) in Brazil, especially as it relates to the evolution of the health sector in recent decades, the process of health sector reform, and current proposals of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. METHODS A review was conducted of data from the Ministry of Health of Brazil on tuberculosis in the country over the last 20 years, ...

Renjie Chen,1,2,3,* Huichu Li,1,2,* Jing Cai,1,2,3,* Cuicui Wang,1,2 Zhijing Lin,1,2 Cong Liu,1,2 Yue Niu,1,2 Zhuohui Zhao,1,2 Weihua Li,4 and Haidong Kan1,2,4 School of Public Health, Key Lab of Public Health Safety of the Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China School of Public Health, Key Lab of Health Technology Assessment of the Ministry of Health, Fudan University, Shangh...

Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Centre for General Practice, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo; Health Technologies and Pharmaceuticals, Division of ...