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Contents tagged: morbidity

Feb. 10, 2016 Africa Publication

Strengthening governance and accountability, Reorienting the model of care, Coordinating services within and across sectors

Counting the cost of child mortality in the World Health Organization African region

Background: Worldwide, a total of 6.282 million deaths occurred among children aged less than 5 years in 2013. About 47.4 % of those were borne by the 47 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region. Sadly, even as we approach the end date for the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), only eight African countries are on track to achieve the MDG 4 target 4A of reducing under-five mortality by two thirds between 1990 and 2015. The post-2015 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 target is "by 2030, end preventable deaths of new-borns and children under 5 years of age". There is urgent need for increased advocacy among governments, the private sector and development partners to provide the resources needed to build resilient national health systems to deliver an integrated package of people-centred interventions to end preventable child morbidity and mortality and other structures to address all ...

children, morbidity, mortality, social determinants of health, health systems, people-centred interventions, prevention

Nov. 7, 2019 Africa Publication

Engaging and empowering people and communities, Coordinating services within and across sectors, Creating an enabling environment

Non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of large cohort studies

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) cause a large and growing burden of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Prospective cohort studies are key to study multiple risk factors and chronic diseases and are crucial to our understanding of the burden, aetiology and prognosis of NCDs in SSA. The aim of this study was to identify the level of research output on NCDs and their risk factors collected by cohorts in SSA.

africa, chronic care, morbidity, mortality, non-communicable diseases, patients needs, research, scoping review

Dec. 3, 2019 Africa Publication

Strengthening governance and accountability, Reorienting the model of care, Creating an enabling environment

A conceptual framework for capacity strengthening of health research in conflict: the case of the Middle East and North Africa region

In conflict settings, research capacities have often been de-prioritized as resources are diverted to emergency needs, such as addressing elevated morbidity, mortality and health system challenges directly and/or indirectly associated to war. This has had an adverse long-term impact in such protracted conflicts such as those found in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), where research knowledge and skills have often been compromised. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for health research capacity strengthening that adapts existing models and frameworks in low- and middle-income countries and uses the knowledge of the MENA context to contextualise them for conflict settings.

africa, challenges, development, framework, governance, health research, morbidity, strengthening universal health coverage

Dec. 8, 2019 Africa Publication

Engaging and empowering people and communities, Coordinating services within and across sectors, Creating an enabling environment

Non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of large cohort studies

africa, chronic diseases, morbidity, mortality, non-communicable diseases, quality of health care, risk factors