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How to bridge the gap in human resources for health
Charles Hongoro,Barbara McPake +1 more
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Serious concerns exist about the quality and productivity of the health workforce in low income countries and among available strategies to address the problems, expansion of the numbers of doctors and nurses through training is highly constrained.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2004-10-16. It has received 431 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health policy & HRHIS.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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A retrospective cohort study: 10-year trend of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and biological agents use in patients with rheumatoid arthritis at Veteran Affairs Medical Centers.
TL;DR: Methotrexate use increased as it became the preferred first-line agent, while other traditional agents declined, and a significant shorter time between RA diagnosis and DMARD or biological agent initiation in recent years suggests improvements in quality of care.
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Community Health Workers and Mobile Technology: A Systematic Review of the Literature
TL;DR: Evidence suggests mobile technology presents promising opportunities to improve the range and quality of services provided by community health workers, particularly maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, and sexual and reproductive health.
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Breast Cancer in Limited‐Resource Countries: An Overview of the Breast Health Global Initiative 2005 Guidelines
Benjamin O. Anderson,Roman Shyyan,Alexandru Eniu,Robert A. Smith,Cheng Har Yip,Nuran Bese,Louis W.C. Chow,Shahla Masood,Scott D. Ramsey,Robert W. Carlson +9 more
TL;DR: Future research is needed to better determine how the BHGI guidelines for health care improvement can best be implemented in limited‐resource settings.
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Neonatal survival: a call for action
Jose Martines,Vinod K. Paul,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Marjorie Koblinsky,Agnes Soucat,Neff Walker,Rajiv Bahl,Helga Fogstad,Anthony Costello +8 more
TL;DR: Development, implementation, and monitoring of national action plans for neonatal survival is a priority and the running costs of the selected packages at 90% coverage in the 75 countries with the highest mortality rates are estimated to be US4.1 billion dollars a year.
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