Health care workers in developing countries continue to lack access to basic, practical information to enable them to deliver safe, effective care. This paper provides the first phase of a broader literature review of the information and learning needs of health care providers in developing countries. A Medline search revealed 1762 papers, of which 149 were identified as potentially relevant to...

Primary health care worker • Screens visual acuity • Treats conjunctivitis • Dispenses reading spectacles for people aged 50 and over 200 under-resourced, particularly French and Portuguese speaking and conflict states (Table 2). The fact is that an insufficient number of new eye health workers are being trained for the needs of a growing and ageing population. Without government commitment to ...

the reference charts for mid upper arm (muac), chest (chc) and head (hc) circumferences of a cohort of 317 healthy infants (153 boys and 164 girls) born in shiraz (southern iran) and monitored from birth for 2 years are presented. centiles for muac and hc lie below the netherlands and us subjects respectively. however, there is no suggestion of ill health for iranian subjects. the use of locall...

BACKGROUND The WHO's mental health Gap Action Programme seeks to narrow the treatment gap for mental disorders by advocating integration of mental health into primary health care (PHC). This study aimed to assess the challenges and opportunities of this approach from the perspective of PHC workers in a sub-Saharan African country. METHODS A facility-based cross-sectional survey of 151 PHC wor...

investments in the extension of health insurance coverage, the strengthening of public health services, as well as primary care and better hospitals, highlights the emerging role of healthcare as part of china’s new growth regime, based on an expansion of services, and redistributive policies. such investments, apart from their central role in terms of relief for low-income people, serve to reb...

BACKGROUND The rhetoric of primary health care philosophy in the district health system is widely cited as a fundamental component of the health transformation process in post-apartheid South Africa. Despite South Africa's progress and attempts at implementing primary health care, various factors still limit its success. DISCUSSION Inconsistencies and poor understanding of primary care and pr...