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By Kaiser GH Update
“It is in poor countries and communities, where health needs are greatest and physicians are scarce, that nurses take an even greater role in health care delivery, often serving as the sole providers in rural villages or urban slums,” Sheila Davis, director of global nursing at Partners In Health, writes in a Huffington Post “Impact Blog” opinion piece, noting this is International Nurses Week. “But although nurses deliver 90 percent of all health care services worldwide, they remain largely invisible at decision-making tables in national capitals and international agencies. Their absence constitutes a global health crisis,” Davis continues.
May 9th, 2012 | Posted in Delivery,Kaiser's Global Health Update | Read More »
By Kaiser GH Update
U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Terence McCulley on Tuesday in Abuja, Nigeria, launched a five-year, $224 million USAID program, titled Strengthening Integrated Delivery of HIV/AIDS Services (SIDHAS), that aims to “increas[e] access to high-quality comprehensive HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis prevention, treatment, care and related services through improved efficiencies in service delivery,” the Daily Trust reports (Odeyemi/Odafor, 5/8).
May 9th, 2012 | Posted in Aid,Delivery,HIV/AIDS,Kaiser's Global Health Update,Tuberculosis | Read More »
By PSIHealthyLives
Meet Pamela, a midwife and owner of Meditrust Health Services, in Mombasa, Kenya. Meditrust is a member of the Tunza Family Health Network, a social franchise operated by PSI in Kenya. Social franchise networks improve access to quality, affordable healthcare for families around the world. Trusted providers like Pamela are critical to strengthening the health of communities. The Tunza Family Health Network is a fractional franchise that is made up largely of nurses and a few clinical officers.
May 8th, 2012 | Posted in Cancer,Delivery,Uncategorized | Read More »
By PSIHealthyLives
May 8, 2012 A new study published in the Lancet about the Millennium Village project shows some positive health gains in its various sites. Jeffrey Sachs, one of the study co-authors, explains some of the most remarkable lessons learned in the Huffington Post. The new Millennium Village health system is starting to show notable results. Together with advances in food production and other related areas in the villages, the MV health system shares credit for the rapid gains reported today in the Lancet.
May 8th, 2012 | Posted in Aid,Aid & Development,Delivery,Hub Selects,Malaria,Uncategorized | Read More »
By Human Resources for Health
Background: Cuba has extended its medical cooperation to Pacific Island Countries (PICs) by supplying doctors to boost service delivery and offering scholarships for Pacific Islanders to study medicine in Cuba. Given the small populations of PICs, the Cuban engagement could prove particularly significant for health systems development in the region. This paper reviews the magnitude and form of Cuban medical cooperation in the Pacific and analyses its implications for health policy, human resource capacity and overall development assistance for health in the region. Methods: We reviewed both published and grey literature on health workforce in the Pacific including health workforce plans and human resource policy documents. Further information was gathered through discussions with key stakeholders involved in health workforce development in the region
May 6th, 2012 | Posted in Aid,Delivery,Uncategorized | Read More »
By PLoS Medicine Blog
Guest bloggers Gita Mody, JaBaris Swain and Maurice Musoni discuss sustainable surgical care delivery and their experience in Rwanda with Team Heart. Sustainable models for delivery of both Emergency and Essential surgical care and specialty surgical care are needed to eliminate global disparities in health. The most cost-effective, feasible, and replicable methods to implement the complex systems needed to provide surgery are still debated. However, to quote ophthalmologist and founder of the Himalayan Cataract Project Dr Geoffrey Tabin at the recent Extreme Affordability Conference held by the Center for Global Surgery at the University of Utah, “high quality [surgical] care is the key to sustainability.” Some would argue that traditional short-term missions, which are often caricatured as a visiting team parachuting into a foreign environment, providing clinical care for a few short days or weeks, and exiting never to be seen again, are a poor return on the investment. But, can short-term missions be structured in such a way to become components of a high-quality, sustainable plan? In our experience, they can.
May 4th, 2012 | Posted in Delivery,Noncommunicable Disease,Surgery & Anesthesia,Uncategorized | Read More »
By Kaiser GH Update
“A new study suggests that at least one surgical procedure, caesarean delivery, is a highly effective way of improving health at a reasonable cost in developing countries,” VOA News reports (Chimes, 4/27). “In 2011, pregnancy-related complications resulted in an estimated 273,500 maternal deaths globally, or close to 775 deaths per day,” according to the study, which notes, “Ninety-nine percent of maternal deaths occur in developing countries” (Alkire et al., 4/25). “One of the most common” causes of maternal deaths “is obstructed labor, where the fetus cannot move down the birth canal,” VOA writes. Harvard Medical School researcher Blake Alkire “notes that deaths from obstructed labor are virtually unknown in wealthier countries,” where women “almost always have the option of a caesarean birth,” according to the news service.
April 30th, 2012 | Posted in Delivery,Kaiser's Global Health Update | Read More »
By Kaiser GH Update
“The policy changes in the [Senate's draft Farm Bill] represent improvements to U.S. food aid policy, but we think Congress could do more,” Kelley Hauser, a policy analyst with ONE, writes in this post on the Care2 blog. She describes a letter sent by ONE to U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Chair Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Ranking Member Sen
April 30th, 2012 | Posted in Aid,Delivery,Kaiser's Global Health Update,Malnutrition | Read More »
By Kaiser GH Update
“As the World Economic Forum kicks off this week in Davos, Switzerland, the importance of global health — and the health of the globe — is getting special attention,” Karl Hofmann, president and CEO of Population Services International (PSI), writes in this post in The Hill’s “Congress Blog.” He continues, “The world’s still massive bottom of the economic pyramid — some 2-3 billion people — represents a potential $5 trillion in purchasing power,” but without access to “quality health care and services, … their global economic impact suffers. Imagine if by simple investments in health, we turned these struggling individuals and families into healthy, active consumers and producers.”
January 25th, 2012 | Posted in Delivery,Kaiser's Global Health Update,Policy & Systems | Read More »
By GH Magazine
As a mother, I know how troubling it is to care for a sick child. As a public health professional working with teams in developing countries for more than 20 years, I have a sense of just how many parents around the world share that worry on any given day. What is one thing that helps allay the worst fears of any parent
January 12th, 2012 | Posted in Delivery,Hub Selects,Uncategorized | Read More »
By PSIHealthyLives
PSI joined 14 other major global health organizations and 8 corporations to encourage continued US government investment in front line health workers around the world. The evidence is clear: increasing access to medical care through frontline health is an effective way to save lives and boost global health outcomes. By forming the Frontline Health Workers Coalition , these groups want to build support towards increasing the number of frontline health workers in the global south.
January 12th, 2012 | Posted in Delivery,Hub Selects,Uncategorized | Read More »
By Kaiser GH Update
The Frontline Health Workers Coalition — which consists of 16 major non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Family Care International, the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, and RESULTS — has launched “a new initiative to add one million health care workers in developing countries,” VOA News reports, adding that the “Coalition says training more community-level workers is the most cost effective way to save lives, speed progress on global health threats and promote U.S. economic and strategic interests” (DeCapua, 1/11). “The Coalition, which launched today with the release of a new report (.pdf) focusing on the need for frontline health workers, is calling on the U.S
January 12th, 2012 | Posted in Delivery,Featured Content,Hub Selects,Kaiser's Global Health Update | Read More »
By Abraar Karan
I just finished Healthcare, Guaranteed, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel’s book about the failure of the American healthcare system to provide accessible, affordable, and effective healthcare. I think that in general, most people are aware that our total healthcare spending ($2.6 trillion in 2010- the most in the world absolutely and as a % of GDP) is [...]
December 5th, 2011 | Posted in Delivery,Featured Content,Financing,Hub Full-Length Features,Policy & Systems,Politics | Read More »
By Center for Health Market Innovations
The explosive growth of mobile phones in developing countries has presented family planning and reproductive health practitioners with increasing opportunities to capitalize on those technologies to strengthen their programs in a variety of programmatic and geographical settings around the world: In Kenya and Tanzania, a low-cost tool (m4RH) was developed to provide women and men with key family planning SMS information on a range of methods. In Bangladesh, a public-private partnership called Mobiles for Health (M4H) was forged to deliver phone-based audio health messages to pregnant read more
December 1st, 2011 | Posted in Aid & Development,Delivery,Financing,Infant & Child Health,Maternal & Reproductive Health,Technology | Read More »
