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Indirect costs associated with deaths from the Ebola virus disease in West Africa
(BioMed Central, 2015)
By 28 June 2015, there were a total of 11,234 deaths from the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in five West African countries (Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria and Sierra Leone). The objective of this study was to estimate the ...
National health research systems in the WHO African Region: current status and the way forward
(BioMed Central, 2015)
A number of resolutions of the World Health Assembly and the WHO Regional Committee for Africa call upon African countries and their development partners to make the required investments in national health research systems ...
Readiness of ethics review systems for a changing public health landscape in the WHO African Region
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Background:
The increasing emphasis on research, development and innovation for health in providing solutions
to the high burden of diseases in the African Region has warranted a proliferation of studies including clinical ...
Counting the cost of child mortality in the World Health Organization African region
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Worldwide, a total of 6.282 million deaths occurred among children aged less than 5 years in 2013. About 47.4 % of those were borne by the 47 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region. Sadly, even ...
National health research system in Malawi: dead, moribund, tepid or flourishing?
(BioMed Central, 2015)
several instruments at both the global and regional levels to which countries in the WHO African Region are party call for action by governments to strengthen national health research systems (NHRS). This paper debates the ...
Productivity changes in Benin Zone ho spitals: a non - parametric Malmquist approach
(University of Nairobi Press, 2015)
To date no study in Benin has attempted to determine whether there has been productivity growth in the hospital
sector as a result of the various health sector reforms undertaken in the recent ...