Gondwe, Mtisunge Joshua Henrion, Marc Y. R. O’Byrne, Thomasena Masesa, Clemens Lufesi, Norman Dube, Queen Majamanda, Maureen D. Makwero, Martha Lalloo, David G. Desmond, Nicola
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BMC Health Services Research
Background Despite health centres being the first point of contact of care, there are challenges faced in providing care to patients at this level. In Malawi, service provision barriers reported at this level included long waiting times, high numbers of patients and erratic consultation systems which lead to mis-diagnosis and delayed referrals. Pro...
Carnis, Laurent
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Eboko, Fred
Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa examines how the interplay between national state dynamics in Africa and the global political arena has shaped the global AIDS response, and in this context develops a framework for analysing public policy action more broadly in contemporary Africa. By applying comparative political sociology t...
Hands, Sandra Verriotis, Madeleine Mustapha, Ayeshatu Ragab, Hany Hands, Christopher
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Paediatrics and international child health
In the wake of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in Sierra Leone, secondary care facilities faced an increase in admissions with few members of medical staff available to assess and treat patients. This led to long waiting times in hospital outpatient departments. The study was undertaken in the outpatient department of Ola During Children's H...
Genisca, Alicia E Sampayo, Esther M Mackey, Joy M Johnson, Lisa Crouse, Heather L
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Global pediatric health
Objective. Triage in resource-limited settings (RLS) improves outcomes. Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) is a simple triage algorithm that improves assessment and initial management of children in RLS. In Belize, pediatric triage varies with setting, from a 5-level Emergency Severity Index (ESI) used at the National Referral Hospita...
Molle, François
Molle, François
Dekker-Boersema, Johanna Hector, Jonas Jefferys, Laura Frances Binamo, Clemência Camilo, Deavis Muganga, Gerard Aly, Mussa Manuel Langa, Ernesto Belario Rafael Vounatsou, Penelope Hobbins, Michael André
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African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence
The majority of emergency paediatric death in African countries occur within the first 24 h of admission. A coloured triage system is widely implemented in high-income countries and the emergency triage and assessment treatment (ETAT) is recommended by the World Health Organization, but not put into practice in Mozambique. We implemented a three-co...
Robertson, Sarah Kathryn Manson, Kristina Fioratou, Evridiki
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundIntegrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) and Emergency Triage, Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) are guidelines developed by the World Health Organization to reach targets for reducing under-5 mortality. They were set out in the Millennium Development Goals. Each guideline was established separately so the purpose of this study was...
Barone, S. Mayaux, P.L. Guerrin, J.
Quels rapports les politiques environnementales entretiennent-elles avec le New Public Management ? Plus précisément, en quoi ces politiques sont-elles désormais structurées par les réformes et les principes néo-managériaux ? La question constitue le fil rouge de ce numéro spécial, qui rassemble quatre contributions originales sur le cas français. ...
