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How much does quality of child care vary between health workers with differing durations of training? An observational multicountry study
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IMCI training is associated with much the same quality of child care across different health worker categories, irrespective of the duration and level of preservice training.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2008-09-13. It has received 96 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Integrated Management of Childhood Illness & Public health.read more
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Health workforce skill mix and task shifting in low income countries: a review of recent evidence
Brent D. Fulton,Richard M. Scheffler,Susan Sparkes,Erica Yoonkyung Auh,Marko Vujicic,Agnes Soucat +5 more
TL;DR: Task shifting is a promising policy option to increase the productive efficiency of the delivery of health care services, increasing the number of services provided at a given quality and cost.
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Health conditions and health-policy innovations in Brazil: the way forward
Cesar G. Victora,Mauricio Lima Barreto,Maria do Carmo Leal,Carlos Augusto Monteiro,Maria Inês Schmidt,Jairnilson Silva Paim,Francisco Inácio Bastos,Francisco Inácio Bastos,Celia Almeida,Ligia Bahia,Claudia Travassos,Michael Eduardo Reichenheim,Fernando C. Barros +12 more
TL;DR: Important improvements in health status and life expectancy are reported, which can be ascribed largely to progress in social determinants of health and to implementation of a comprehensive national health system with strong social participation.
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Task shifting: the answer to the human resources crisis in Africa?
TL;DR: It is argued that, while task shifting holds great promise, any long-term success of task shifting hinges on serious political and financial commitments, and requires a comprehensive and integrated reconfiguration of health teams, changed scopes of practice and regulatory frameworks and enhanced training infrastructure, as well as availability of reliable medium- to long- term funding.
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Strategies to improve health coverage and narrow the equity gap in child survival, health, and nutrition
TL;DR: Although knowledge gaps exist, several strategies show promise for improving coverage of effective interventions-and, in some cases, health outcomes in children-including expanded roles for lay health workers, task shifting, reduction of financial barriers, increases in human-resource availability and geographical access, and use of the private sector.
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Hypertension, diabetes mellitus and task shifting in their management in sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: The evidences in support of nurse-led strategies for chronic disease management in SSA, with a focus on hypertension and diabetes mellitus are discussed.
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Where and why are 10 million children dying every year
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How many child deaths can we prevent this year
TL;DR: The findings show that the interventions needed to achieve the millennium development goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds by 2015 are available, but that they are not being delivered to the mothers and children who need them.
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WHO estimates of the causes of death in children
TL;DR: A 4-year effort by WHO to improve the accuracy of estimates of the proportion of deaths in children younger than age 5 years attributable to pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, measles, and the major causes of death in the first 28 days of life is reported on.