Although substantial progress has been made in reducing child and maternal deaths in the past fifteen years, many women and children in low- and middle-income countries continue to die of avertable causes...
The quantity, skills and geographic distribution of the health workforce have long been recognized as factors that limit population health outcomes and progress towards the related Millennium Development...
The objective of the review was to collect, compile and evaluate publicly available national health accounts (NHA) reports produced worldwide between 1996 and 2010. It downloaded country-generated NHA...
Reducing maternal and child mortality is a priority in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and will likely remain so after 2015. Evidence exists on the investments, interventions and enabling policies...
Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa, the countries known as BRICS, represent some of the world’s fastest growing large economies and nearly 40 percent of the world’s population...
This paper will evaluate the effect of the Chiranjeevi Yojana program, a public-private partnership to improve maternal and neonatal health in Gujarat, India. A household survey was conducted in Gujarat...
Countries have made substantial progress towards millennium development goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 - to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. Since 1990, both maternal and child mortality have...
Increased international resources have flowed towards HRH over the past decade, either directly through targeted HRH funds or indirectly through programs for disease control or health system strengthening...
The objective of the article is to directly estimate how much smoking contributes to cause-specific mortality in Bangladesh. A case–control study was conducted with surveillance data from Matlab, a rural...
Human resources for health have been recognized as essential to the development of responsive and effective health systems. Low- and middle-income countries seeking to achieve universal health coverage...
A forthcoming report by the World Health Organization (WHO) on evidence for policy is already fuelling passionate debate, especially among scientists. Opinions are divided: some scientists believe strongly...