Health Policy Plan (2017) 32 (5): 603-612; 10 pp. 318 kB
The Health Systems in Transition (HiT) series consists of country-based reviews that provide a detailed description of a health system and of reform and policy initiatives in progress or under development in a specific country.
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide and causes a significant number of deaths in the South-East Asia Region. Nearly 200 000 new cases of cervical cancer occurred in SEA Region Member States in 2008, giving an incidence of almost 25 per 100... 000 and a mortality rate of almost 14 per 100 000. Cervical cancer can be prevented by early screening and vaccination. However, due to poor access to screening and treatment services, the vast majority of these deaths occur in women from nine Member States of the South-East Asia Region which account for more than one third of the global burden of cervical cancer.
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BMC Health Services Research 2012, 12:352
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/12/352
Results and Lessons Learned from CapacityPlus 2009-2015
A booklet on how CHWs were addressing eye health across Africa based on desk research and a survey in 23 countries
PLoS Med 10(8): e1001501. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001501
Quality Standards for community health services Level 1
Primary care - Putting people first: This chapter describes how primary care brings promotion and prevention, cure and care together in a safe, effective and socially productive way at the interface between the population and the health system.
Acclerating attainment of universal health coverage and bridging the access inequity gap
This document highlights the key aspects of safe health-care waste management in order to guide policy-makers, practitioners and facility managers to improve such services in health-care facilities. It is based on the comprehensive WHO handbook Safe management of wastes from health-care activities (...WHO, 2014), and also takes into consideration relevant World Health Assembly resolutions, other UN documents and emerging global and national developments on water, sanitation and hygiene and infection prevention and control.
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A guide to promote health systems strengthening to achieve universal health coverage.
STP Guidelines, First Edition 2017