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Technical and scale efficiency of public community hospitals in Eritrea: an exploratory study
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014)
Eritrean gross national income of Int$610 per capita is lower than the average for Africa (Int$1620) and considerably lower than the global average (Int$6977). It is therefore imperative that the country’s resources,including ...
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, ...
Effects of global financial crisis on funding for health development in nineteen countries of the WHO African Region
(BioMed Central, 2011)
There is ample evidence in Asia and Latin America showing that past economic crises resulted in cuts in expenditures on health, lower utilization of health services, and deterioration of child and maternal nutrition and ...
Equity in reproductive and maternal health services in Bangladesh
(BioMed Central, 2014)
The target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is now closer than ever.
There is lack of sufficient progress in achieving the MDG targets in many low- and middle-income countries.
Furthermore, there ...
Health financing in Africa: overview of a dialogue among high level policy makers
(BioMed Central, 2011)
Even though Africa has the highest disease burden compared with other regions, it has the lowest per capita spending on health. In 2007, 27 (51%) out the 53 countries spent less than US$50 per person on health. Almost 30% ...
Trainees’ and trainers’ perspectives on effectiveness of clinical training for nursing students in Kenya
(International Journal of Social Sciences and Entrepreneurship, 2014)
Although nurse training has been undertaken for over two decades, holistic evaluation of clinical teaching has not been documented. The purpose of the study was to determine students and trainers perspectives ...
Anemia among children exposed to polyparasitism in coastal Kenya
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2015)
Anemia represents a substantial problem for children living in areas with limited resources and significant
parasite burden. We performed a cross-sectional study of 254 Kenyan preschool- and early school-age children in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Health care seeking patterns and determinants of out-of-pocket expenditure for malaria for the children under-five in Uganda
(BioMed Central, 2014)
The objectives of this study were to assess the patterns of treatment seeking behaviour for children under five with malaria; and to examine the statistical relationship between out-of-pocket expenditure (OOP) on malaria ...