There is renewed interest in the potential contribution of community health workers to child
survival. Community health workers can undertake various tasks, including case …

Background Over thirty years have passed since the Alma-Ata Declaration on primary health
care in 1978. Many governments in the first decade following the declaration responded by …

In Bangladesh, rapid advancements in coverage of many health interventions have
coincided with impressive reductions in fertility and rates of maternal, infant, and childhood …

Background Bangladesh is identified as one of the countries with severe health worker
shortages. However, there is a lack of comprehensive data on human resources for health …

BACKGROUND: For the world's 60million non-facility births, addressing who is currently
attending these births and what effect they have on birth outcomes is a key starting point …

OBJECTIVE: To review individual case histories of children who had died of pneumonia in
rural Uganda and to investigate why these children did not survive. METHODS: This case …

Background Pneumonia and malaria, two of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality
among children under five in Zambia, often have overlapping clinical manifestations. Zambia …

Community health worker programs have emerged as one of the most effective strategies to
address human resources for health shortages while improving access to and quality of …

The reduction of deaths from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is stalling, whereas many
countries in Southeast Asia are approaching malaria elimination. We reviewed the role of …

In Bangladesh, there is a lack of knowledge about the large body of informal sector
practitioners, who are the major providers of health care to the poor, especially in rural …