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Does User Fee Removal Policy Provide Financial Protection from Catastrophic Health Care Payments? Evidence from Zambia
(Public Library of Science, 2016)
Out-of-pocket payments in health care have been shown to impose significant burden on households in Sub-Saharan Africa, leading to constrained access to health care and impoverishment. In an effort to reduce the financial ...
Global Forum 2015 dialogue on “From evidence to policy–thinking outside the box”: perspectives to improve evidence uptake and good practices in the African Region
(BioMed Central, 2016)
The Global Forum 2015 panel session dialogue entitled“ From evidence to policy thinking outside the box” was held on 26 August 2015 in the Philippines to debate why evidence was not fully translated into policy and practice ...
Dengue and West Nile Virus transmission in children and adults in coastal Kenya
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2016)
Dengue virus (DENV) and West Nile virus (WNV) are important reemerging arboviruses that are under-recognized
in many parts of Africa due to lack of surveillance. As a part of a study on flavivirus, alphavirus, and parasite ...
Space and place for WHO health development dialogues in the African Region
(BioMed Central, 2016)
Majority of the countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region are not on track to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals, yet even more ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ...
Socio-demographic characteristics influencing uptake of screening for cervical cancer in women aged 18-49 years in Imenti north sub-county, Meru County, Kenya
(Science Publishing Group, 2016)
Cervical cancer continues to kill approximately 274 ,883 women globally every year, despite robust programs for the prevention and control of the disease. Kenya has an uptake of cervical cancer screening (3.2%) compared ...
Productivity and Efficiency Changes in Referral Hospitals in Uganda: An Application of Malmquist Total Productivity Index
(Research Gates, 2016)
Background: Strengthening health institutions increases the productivity of health spending. Institutions like hospitals which use a large proportion of the health budget are natural targets for productivity improvements, ...
Contrasting patterns of serologic and functional antibody dynamics to Plasmodium falciparum antigens in a Kenyan birth cohort
(American Society for Microbiology, 2016)
IgG antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) are transferred from the maternal to fetal circulation during pregnancy, wane after birth, and are subsequ ently acquired in response to natural infection. We examined the ...
Policy dialogue to improve health outcomes in low income countries: what are the issues and way forward?
(BioMed Central, 2016)
This paper has three objectives: to review the health development landscape in the World Health Organization African Region, to discuss the role of health policy dialogue in improving harmonisation and alignment to national ...
Indirect cost of maternal mortality in the WHO African Region, 2013
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016)
The purpose of this paper is to estimate discounted value of potential non-health gross domestic product (GDP) losses attributable to the 167,913 maternal deaths that occurred among 45 countries in the WHO African Region ...
Productivity losses associated with tuberculosis deaths in the World Health Organization African region
(BioMed Central, 2016)
In 2014, almost half of the global tuberculosis deaths occurred in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region. Approximately 21.5 % of the 6 060 742 TB cases (new and relapse) reported to the WHO in 2014 were in ...