This paper explores the nature and type of policy transfer promoted by global health partnerships to facilitate access to medication in Cameroon and the associated implementation challenges. Using concepts from policy transfer, multi-level governance and the politics of scale, the paper conceptualizes the social spaces (global-national-local linkages) through which global health policies are ne...

This article has been subjected to peer review For almost all of us, computers have become com­ monplace. We not only use them when shopping, bank­ ing or making travel arrangements but, as all four UK countries have introduced national information and communications technology (ICT) programmes, they are now integral to our health care. Although the names and methods of introducing ICT programm...

BACKGROUND Despite the development of national community-based health worker (CBHW) programmes in several low- and middle-income countries, their integration into health systems has not been optimal. Studies have been conducted to investigate the factors influencing the integration processes, but systematic reviews to provide a more comprehensive understanding are lacking. METHODS We conducte...

BACKGROUND Evidence based parenting programmes can improve parenting skills and the behaviour of children exhibiting, or at risk of developing, antisocial behaviour. In order to develop a public policy for delivering these programmes it is necessary not only to demonstrate their efficacy through rigorous trials but also to determine that they can be rolled out on a large scale. The aim of the p...

a World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, Indraprastha Estate, New Delhi, 110 002, India. b World Health Organization, Country Office for India, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to Nani Nair (e-mail: [email protected]). One-third of the world’s burden of tuberculosis (TB), or about 4.9 million prevalent cases, is found in the World Health Organization (WHO) SouthEast A...

Major public health problems require major solutions. To be successful, solutions need to be delivered at a number of levels. The English white paper Saving lives: our healthier nation stated “We want to see healthier people in a healthier country. People improving their own health supported by communities working through local organisations against a backdrop of action by the Government”. To i...

All readers of the Community Eye Health Journal who are responsible for managing trachoma programmes at national, regional, or district level need to be familiar with the requirements for Zithromax® donation. The generous global donation of the antibiotic Zithromax® by Pfi zer Inc. through the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) can play an important role in the successful elimination of bl...

All screening programmes do harm; some do good as well, and, of these, some do more good than harm at reasonable cost. The first task of any public health service is to identify beneficial programmes by appraising the evidence. However, evidence of a favourable balance of benefit to harm in a research setting does not guarantee that a similar balance will be reproduced in practice, so screening...

BACKGROUND In 2011 the Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA) was initially launched focusing on Master level (second cycle) education. METHODS Between 2012 and 2013 the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region, APHEA and partner schools conducted a study on the compliance of Master level programmes of public health to the accreditation criteria. A web-...