03 December 2013
Recently, the HEART team received a request to investigate the practicalities of developing an early grade reading primer programme for a country with low levels of literacy and educational infrastructure. Experts in the field of literacy, children’s book publishing, and programmatic distribution were consulted and their responses synthesised into a guide. Below are a few [...]
Categories: Curriculum, Learning and Teaching, Education0 Comments
22 November 2013
I am currently in Warsaw, Poland for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP19). On 16 November, I attended the Climate and Health Summit, which was organised by the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA). I was particularly interested in this event as I have a narrow understanding of the complex climate change and health [...]
Categories: Health, Nutrition0 Comments
18 November 2013
The critical role of community health volunteers (CHVs) in promoting good health practices in Sub-Saharan Africa is well known. Systematic reviews have shown that CHV performance and their integration with the primary healthcare system are improved when sufficient priority is given to on-going supervision and feedback. However, providing this on-going support is challenging. First, supervisory [...]
Categories: Education, Education and Health, Health, Health Systems0 Comments
13 November 2013
This helpdesk report is on the topic of “attracting and retaining teachers” and aims to address what works to attract competent people into the teaching profession and how to retain teachers and ensure that they attend school regularly and teach effectively. The report is structured into sections covering the issues of teacher recruitment, retention, attendance [...]
Categories: Curriculum, Learning and Teaching, Education, Helpdesk Reports0 Comments
08 November 2013
Despite the WHO only having eight official health days mandated by the World Health Assembly, many others exist to promote important public health issues. A quick internet search indicates that there are more international health days than days in the year. Every day seems to have been claimed by either a disease, a sector or [...]
Categories: Adult, Higher and Vocational Education, Education, Health, Human resources for health0 Comments
07 November 2013
In this short video, Kevin Watkins gives his opinion on addressing inequality in education. He explains how in recent years there has been dramatic progress in getting children in to schools. Improved attendance rates have been achieved in most countries. The challenge today is how to progress from here, building on this momentum. As many [...]
Categories: Education, Equity0 Comments
06 November 2013
The REACHOUT programme is an ambitious international research project helping to understand and develop the role of close-to-community providers of health care in preventing, diagnosing, and treating major illnesses and health conditions in rural and urban areas in Africa and Asia. The REACHOUT consortium is composed of eight partners and is co-ordinated by the Liverpool School [...]
Categories: Access to medicines, Communicable Diseases, Health, Health Systems0 Comments
01 November 2013
These helpdesks were designed to enable an extensive search for evidence on various methods for improving learning. There are a series of six similar reports, each is based on an edit of a literature search for their chosen method. After the initial search had been done the search fields were expanded to include further search [...]
Categories: Curriculum, Learning and Teaching, Education, Helpdesk Reports, Publications, Quality of learning outcomes0 Comments
23 October 2013
In this video Lawrence Haddad, Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), introduces the HEART Nutrition Topic Guide. The guide has been created in collaboration with MQSUN to inform policymakers and practitioners working in the nutrition sector on the latest key evidence. As Lawrence explains, undernutrition causes 3.1 million preventable maternal and child deaths [...]
Categories: Features, Nutrition0 Comments
23 October 2013
The governments of the UK and US hosted the “Millennium Development Goal Countdown 2013” during the United Nations General Assembly, in New York on 24th September. The event aimed to showcase how girls and women are a force for change in helping the world achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to showcase inspiring examples [...]
Categories: Communicable Diseases, Health0 Comments
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