Reduced premature mortality in Rwanda: lessons from success
Paul Farmer,Cameron T Nutt,Claire M. Wagner,Claude Sekabaraga,Tej Nuthulaganti,Jonathan Weigel,Didi Bertrand Farmer,Antoinette Habinshuti,Soline Dusabeyesu Mugeni,Jean-Claude Karasi,Peter Drobac,Peter Drobac +11 more
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Rwanda’s approach to delivering healthcare in a setting of post-conflict poverty offers lessons for other poor countries, say Paul Farmer and colleagues.Abstract:
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Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development
John G. Meara,John G. Meara,Andrew J M Leather,Lars Hagander,Blake C. Alkire,Nivaldo Alonso,Emmanuel A. Ameh,Stephen W. Bickler,Lesong Conteh,Anna J Dare,Justine Davies,Eunice D érivois Mérisier,Shenaaz El-Halabi,Paul Farmer,Paul Farmer,Atul A. Gawande,Rowan Gillies,Sarah L M Greenberg,Sarah L M Greenberg,Sarah L M Greenberg,Caris E Grimes,Russell L. Gruen,Russell L. Gruen,Edna Adan Ismail,Thaim B. Kamara,Chris Lavy,Ganbold Lundeg,Nyengo Mkandawire,Nyengo Mkandawire,Nakul P Raykar,Nakul P Raykar,Nakul P Raykar,Johanna N Riesel,Edgar B. Rodas,John A. Rose,Nobhojit Roy,Mark G. Shrime,Mark G. Shrime,Richard Sullivan,Stéphane Verguet,David A. K. Watters,Thomas G. Weiser,Iain H Wilson,Gavin Yamey,Winnie Yip +44 more
TL;DR: The need for surgical services in low- and middleincome countries will continue to rise substantially from now until 2030, with a large projected increase in the incidence of cancer, road traffic injuries, and cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in LMICs.
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[Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation].
Dean T. Jamison,Lawrence H. Summers,George Alleyne,Kenneth J. Arrow,Seth Berkley,Agnes Binagwaho,Flavia Bustreo,David M. Evans,Richard G A Feachem,Julio Frenk,Gargee Ghosh,Sue J. Goldie,Yan Guo,Sanjeev Gupta,Richard Horton,Margaret E Kruk,Adel A. F. Mahmoud,Linah K. Mohohlo,Mthuli Ncube,Ariel Pablos-Mendez,K. Srinath Reddy,Helen Saxenian,Agnes Soucat,Karene H. Ulltveit-Moe,Gavin Yamey +24 more
TL;DR: A recent report by the Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a new investment framework to achieve dramatic health gains by 2035 as discussed by the authors, which is, a reduction in infectious, maternal, and child mortality down to universally low levels.
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Redefining global health-care delivery
TL;DR: A framework for global health-care delivery and evaluation is proposed by considering efforts to introduce HIV/AIDS care to resource-poor settings and introduces the notion of care delivery value chains that apply a systems-level analysis to the complex processes and interventions that must occur to deliver high-value care for patients with HIV/ AIDS and cooccurring conditions.
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Every Newborn: health-systems bottlenecks and strategies to accelerate scale-up in countries
Kim E Dickson,Aline Simen-Kapeu,Mary V Kinney,Luis Huicho,Linda Vesel,Eve M. Lackritz,Joseph de Graft Johnson,Severin von Xylander,Nuzhat Rafique,Mariame Sylla,Charles Mwansambo,Bernadette Daelmans,Joy E Lawn,Joy E Lawn +13 more
TL;DR: A country-led, data-driven process to sharpen national health plans, seize opportunities to address the quality gap for care at birth and care of small and ill newborn babies, and systematically scale up care to reach every mother and newborn baby, particularly the poorest is proposed.
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The Human Resources for Health Program in Rwanda — A New Partnership
Agnes Binagwaho,Patrick Kyamanywa,Paul Farmer,Tej Nuthulaganti,Benoite Umubyeyi,Soline Dusabeyesu Mugeni,Anita Asiimwe,Uzziel Ndagijimana,Helen Lamphere McPherson,Jean de Dieu Ngirabega,Anne Sliney,Agnes Uwayezu,Vincent Rusanganwa,Claire M. Wagner,Cameron T Nutt,Mark Eldon-Edington,Corrado Cancedda,Ira C. Magaziner,Eric Goosby +18 more
TL;DR: The authors discuss the Human Resources for Health Program, which is working to improve the quality and quantity of health professionals in Rwanda by means of sustained collaborations with U.S. schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, and public health.
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