BACKGROUND Malawi is a low-income country with one of the highest HIV prevalence rates worldwide (Kendig et al., Trop Med Health 41:163-170, 2013). The health system depends largely on external funding. Official German development aid has supported health care in Malawi for many years (German Embassy Lilongwe, The German Development Cooperation in Malawi), including placing medical doctors in v...

regarding the fiscal constraints and management difficulties of public hospitals, several countries have usedpublic private partnership model to improve their health facilities. public private partnership enables using public resources and private investment and expertise in a combined structure. moheb hospital is the first iranian hospital managed according to public private-partnership. the p...

Extended abstract for the XXVII International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) International Population Conference, submitted to session 03-02 " Life-course influences on health and mortality " Short abstract This study investigates how the psychological health of British men and women living alone in mid-life is related to partnership history and parenthood status. Although...

Community-academic partnerships in the training of doctors offer unique learning opportunities of great importance. Such partnerships can induce a paradigm shift such that physicians view community as a teaching resource and partner rather than as a passive recipient of services or solely as a placement site. The authors describe a model of a community-academic partnership in New York City, beg...

Readers will find the following chapters: 1. Partnership working and organisational culture; 2. Interprofessional practice; 3. Partnership working: key concepts and approaches; 4. Key elements in effective partnership working; 5. Integrated service models: an exploration of North American models and lessons; 6. Working across the health and social care boundary; 7. Partnerships in the digital a...

BACKGROUND Marital and partnership history is strongly associated with health in midlife and later life. However, the role of health behaviours as an explanatory mechanism remains unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate prospective associations between life-course partnership trajectories (taking into account timing, non-marital cohabitation, remarriage and marital transitions) and he...

background: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of peer education among university students for reproductive health promotion based on researchers' experiences. methods: this interventional study was conducted in qazvin university of medical science during 2002 to 2004 through stakeholders' partnership and selection of 24 volunteer students according to their knowledge, ...

The New Haven Mental Health Outreach for MotherS (MOMS) Partnership is a community-academic partnership that works to develop public health approaches to ensure that pregnant and parenting women living in the City of New Haven achieve the highest possible level of mental health. The MOMS Partnership developed a training model for community health workers specializing in maternal mental health. ...