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Community involvement in constructing village health buildings in Uganda and Sierra Leone

01/11/1995

10 pages long

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What opportunities are there, within Primary Health Care (PHC) programmes, for village communities to participate in the process of conceiving, constructing, and maintaining their own health facilities? This article looks at three PHC projects in Sierra Leone and Uganda, involving NGOs, governments, and host communities in the construction of health buildings. From these case studies, […]

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Where do NGOs fit in?

01/11/1995

11 pages long

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The contribution of NGOs to the health sector has changed over recent years. Their profile and sector size have increased, and their activities are often different from those previously carried out. In some quarters NGOs are viewed as the best means of developing the health sector: regarded, among other things, as being more efficient and […]

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NGOs, gender, culture and multiculturalism: a Zimbabwean view

01/02/1995

6 pages long

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NGOs, gender, culture and multiculturalism: a Zimbabwean view

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If women led a sustained, multi-pronged challenge to male domination, social change could become a reality. Such change must be practical and embrace economic and health systems, popular education and the media, and female role models. The author recounts opposition she faced – by women as well as men – when she questioned gender norms. […]

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Book

Paying for Health: Poverty and structural adjustment in Zimbabwe

01/01/1994

1 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

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Paying for Health shows how the most vulnerable sections of society carry the burden of structural adjustment when a government adopts the World Bank’s advice to introduce user-fees for health care.

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Health programmes for the disadvantaged

01/11/1992

8 pages long

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The implementation of health programmes by external health professionals (‘givers’) in disadvantaged communities (‘receivers’) faces a variety of interactional barriers, some of which can be appreciated within the framework of the doctor-patient relationship. This article identifies the problems of cultural dissonance, unrealistic expectations, hostility, and non-cooperation that sometimes arise within the giver-receiver relationship, and outlines […]

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Financing primary health care: An NGO perspective

01/03/1991

9 pages long

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How is primary health care (PHC) to be funded in a climate of economic recession? The authors survey the financial implications of the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and the Bamako Initiative of 1987. They draw on a survey of over 100 Oxfam-funded health projects to assess four methods of PHC funding and their impact […]

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Book

The Caribbean: Making our own choices

01/01/1990

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

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Throughout the Caribbean, communities of people are working together to create a few more choices and gain a little more control over their lives. ” This report is about those communities and the projects they have created and run. ‘ It has been written to help them tell their own stories and in the hope […]

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Book

Tuberculosis Control Programmes in Developing Countries

01/01/1988

1 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

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Tuberculosis is likely to remain a major health problem in developing countries as long as communities face poor housing, overcrowding and poor nutrition. Many countries have national tuberculosis control programmes, but these are seldom as effective as they could be because of difficulties in the implementation at village level. This book combines the most recent […]

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Book

The Doctor Go Round

01/01/1977

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

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What can be done to achieve adequate health care for the huge numbers of people in the world who now receive little or none? While a person in Britain receives more doctor-care in a year than the average Ethiopian can expect in a lifetime, what kind of health programmes are needed to bridge the gap? […]

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