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Mental illness in the Western Cape Province, South Africa: A review of the burden of disease and healthcare interventions

Jacob, N. (2018) CC

SAMJ Review Vol. 108 No.3

Mental Health in Haiti: Beyond Disaster Relief

Olivia Tiberi The Journal of Global Health (2016) C1

Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, was devastated by an earthquake in 2010. The disaster uncovered the realities of a non-existent mental health care system with only ten psychiatrists nationwide. Attempts were made to assess the increased prevalence of mental illness, likely due to t ... more

Guidance on couples HIV testing and counselling including antiretroviral therapy for treatment and prevention in serodiscordant couples: recommendations for a public health approach

World Health Organization WHO (2012) C_WHO

Recognition of depression by primary care clinicians in rural Ethiopia

Abebaw Fekadu, Girmay Medhin, Medhin Selamu, et al. (2017) CC

BMC Family Practice (2017) 18:56 DOI 10.1186/s12875-017-0628

Screening for cardiovascular disease risk and subsequent management in low and middle income countries: challenges and opportunities

Bovet, P.; Chiolero, A.; Paccaud, F. et al. Public Health Reviews (2015) CC

Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD), mainly heart attack and stroke, is the leading cause of premature mortality in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Identifying and managing individuals at high risk of CVD is an important strategy to prevent and control CVD, in addition to multisector ... al population-based interventions to reduce CVD risk factors in the entire population. Methods: We describe key public health considerations in identifying and managing individuals at high risk of CVD in LMICs. Results: A main objective of any strategy to identify individuals at high CVD risk is to maximize the number of CVD events averted while minimizing the numbers of individuals needing treatment. Scores estimating the total risk of CVD (e.g. ten-year risk of fatal and non-fatal CVD) are available for LMICs, and are based on the main CVD risk factors (history of CVD, age, sex, tobacco use, blood pressure, blood cholesterol and diabetes status). Opportunistic screening of CVD risk factors enables identification of persons with high CVD risk, but this strategy can be widely applied in low resource settings only if cost effective interventions are used (e.g. the WHO Package of Essential NCD interventions for primary health care in low resource settings package) and if treatment (generally for years) can be sustained, including continued availability ofaffordable medications and funding mechanisms that allow people to purchase medications without impoverishing them (e.g. universal access to health care). Thisalso emphasises the need to re-orient health systems in LMICs towards chronic diseases management. Conclusion: The large burden of CVD in LMICs and the fact that persons with high CVD can be identified and managed along cost-effective interventions mean that health systems need to be structured in a way that encourages patient registration, opportunistic screening of CVD risk factors, efficient procedures for the management of chronic conditions (e.g. task sharing) and provision of affordable treatment for those with high CVD risk. The focus needs to be in primary care because that is where most of the population can access health care and because CVD programmes can be run effectively at this level. more

Elimination of human rabies in Goa, India through an integrated One Health approach

Gibson, A.; Yale, G.; Corfmat, J.; et al. nature communications (2022) CC

Rabies is a devastating and societally important zoonotic disease, which is transmitted principally to humans through the bite of infected dogs. This acute, progressive viral encephalitis has the highest case fatality of any infectious disease and kills tens of thousands of people annually, with chi ... more

National surgical, obstetric and anesthesia plan (NSOPA) 2018-2025

Ministry Of Health Community, Development,Gender, Elderly And Children, the United Republic of Tanzania (2018) CC

Roadmap to prevent and combat drug-resistant tuberculosis

World Health Organization Europe (2011) C_WHO

TB Stigma Measurement Guidance

Meershoek A, Zwerling A, Daftary A, Citro B, Smyth C, Lewis D USAID; KNV; Challenge TB (2018) C1

Guidance on chlamydia control in Europe

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2016) C1

This document updates the 2009 ECDC guidance on chlamydia control in Europe. It was developed by a technical expert group which conducted a critical review of the scientific evidence on the epidemiology of chlamydia and the effectiveness of screening programmes. The aim of this guidance is to suppo ... more

Scaling Up Nutrition - a Framework for Action

Standing committee on Nutrition SCN, et al. (2008)

Global, regional, and national burden of epilepsy, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

GBD 2016 Epilepsy Collaborators (2019) CC

Lancet Neurol. 2019 Apr;18(4):357-375. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30454-X. Epub 2019 Feb 14.

Operational framework for strengthening human, animal and environmental public health systems at their interface

World Bank (2018) C1

Xpert MTB/RIF increases timely TB detection among people living with HIV and saves lives

World Health Organization; HVTB (2017) C_WHO

Information note Accessed November 2017.

India National Health Policy 2017

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India (2017) C1

Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

GBD 2016 Neurology Collaborators (2019) CC

Lancet Neurol 2019 Volume 18, ISSUE 5, P459-480, May 01, 2019 Published OnlineMarch 14, 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S1474-4422(18)30499-X