Introduction In 2013, the Zambian Correctional Service (ZCS) partnered with the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia on the Zambian Prisons Health System Strengthening project, seeking to tackle structural, organisational and cultural weaknesses within the prison health system. We present findings from a nested evaluation of the project impact on high, mid-level and facility-level h...

This paper examines factors influencing a patient's choice of provider for outpatient health care services in Jordan. Factors including demographic, socioeconomic, insurance status, quality of care, household size and cost of health care were studied using a multinomial logit model applied to a sample of 1031 outpatients from the Jordan heathcare utilization and expenditure survey, 2000. The pa...

V chef Emeril Lagasse uses his trademark phrase “kick it up a notch” when he is about to enhance the flavor of a dish with a new ingredient. In a recently completed joint effort between the Catholic Health Association and members of the Catholic health ministry, a revamped competency model “kicks it up a notch” with a revised recipe that redefines mission leadership in the 21st century. where t...

BACKGROUND: The number of pregnant women with high risk is still very high. In 2019–2020, at the Merak Urak Health Center, there were 104 women, Palang Center 213 women. Meanwhile, target Millennium Development Goals in 2015 102/100,000 live births. AIM: aim research to empower families preventing high-risk pregnancies based on Family-Centered Empowerment. METHODS: study used analytical observa...

The Ministry of Health (MOH) have updated the clinical practice guidelines on Diabetes Mellitus to provide doctors and patients in Singapore with evidence-based treatment for diabetes mellitus. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary (with recommendations from the guidelines) from the MOH clinical practice guidelines on Diabetes Mellitus, for the information of SMJ reader...

CDC is assisting ministries of health and working with other organizations to end the ongoing epidemic of Ebola virus disease (Ebola) in West Africa. The updated data in this report were compiled from situation reports from the Guinea Interministerial Committee for Response Against the Ebola Virus, the World Health Organization, the Liberia Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and the Sierra ...

The Status Paper on Prisons, Drugs and Harm Reduction was adopted at the WHO International Meeting on Prisons and Health in De Leeuwenhorst, the Netherlands on 22 October 2004. The meeting was organized in cooperation with the National Agency of Correctional Services, the Ministry of Justice, the Netherlands and the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe. The meeting was co-sponsored by the WH...

“The following institutions participated in this study: Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center; Zhejiang Cancer Hospital; Guangdong General Hospital; Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University; Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Hospital; West China Hospital, Sichuan University; Harbin Medical University Cance...

CDC is assisting ministries of health and working with other organizations to end the ongoing epidemic of Ebola virus disease (Ebola) in West Africa. The updated data in this report were compiled from situation reports from the Guinea Interministerial Committee for Response Against the Ebola Virus and the World Health Organization, the Liberia Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and the Sier...