10 March 2014
On 16 January 2014 a reading event was organised for DFID education advisors. It was facilitated by Dr David Hollow from Jigsaw Consult. Education and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) was the focus of the day. ICT may improve education in many ways. It may contribute to universal access to education, equity in education, the [...]
Categories: Education, ICT0 Comments
09 March 2014
The Sphere Humanitarian Charter states that: All people should have access to health services that are prioritised to address the main causes of excess mortality and morbidity. There are a number of handbooks to aid prioritisation in crisis situations (highlighted in section 2 of this report): The Johns Hopkins and Red Cross Red Crescent public [...]
Categories: Communicable Diseases, Environmental Health, Health, Health Systems, Helpdesk Reports, HIV and AIDS, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health0 Comments
07 March 2014
For each of the seven countries in this report there is a profile outlining how higher education is organised and drawing together the key points on reform. This is followed by an annotated bibliography of resources on higher education reform for each country case.
Categories: Adult, Higher and Vocational Education, Education, Helpdesk Reports, Publications0 Comments
28 February 2014
Dr. Angela Obasi, Rachael Thomson and Dr. Rachel Tolhurst of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) were recently awarded £150,000 by the Medical Research Council Public Health Intervention Development Scheme (PHIND) to investigate novel interventions aimed at delaying early marriage and pregnancy in Eastern Sudan. The project is to be run in conjunction with [...]
Categories: Health, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health0 Comments
27 February 2014
In this seminar, Susan Elden presents issues around the implementation of National Health Insurance in Ghana. Although the system in Ghana is not perfect, it has offered a relatively stable health system and it has a lot of potential for the future. As development partners, DFID are particularly interested in the purchasing modalities Ghana has [...]
Categories: Health, Health Systems, HEART Talks, International Policy and Aid Financing0 Comments
27 February 2014
In this seminar, Nick Black speaks about ensuring health quality in the UK. In an ideal world, high quality care should be safe, effective, humane, and equitable. However, it is not possible to have the maximum of all four dimensions. Some uncomfortable decisions may have to be made. There are a number of ways that [...]
Categories: Health, Health Systems, International Policy and Aid Financing0 Comments
27 February 2014
In this seminar, Myles Ritchie speaks about the role of regulation in driving quality. He looks at regulation within the context of a range of other quality improvement methodologies, to show that regulatory intervention is just one part of quality improvement. Regulation will not necessarily lift the quality of care but it can create the [...]
Categories: Health, Health Systems, HEART Talks, International Policy and Aid Financing0 Comments
25 February 2014
In this short video, Dr Maryam Ba-Break gives an introduction to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). NCDs are described as those that are not passed from person to person. They are also known as chronic diseases and are often of long duration and slow progression. The World Health Organization focus is on four types of non-communicable diseases [...]
Categories: Health, HEART Talks, Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health0 Comments
17 February 2014
Thirty years after its emergence in the West, the global HIV pandemic is still a pressing public health concern. In many countries, infection with HIV still carries a significant stigma, which creates barriers that prevent infected individuals from accessing available treatment options. In an ideal world, we would be able to design a ‘one size [...]
Categories: Health, HIV and AIDS, Sexual and Reproductive Health0 Comments
13 February 2014
In this short video Kara Hanson from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) explains how universal health coverage (UHC) aims to make services available to everyone, without leading to financial impoverishment. The challenge is to provide the services that are needed while at the same time maintaining quality. To achieve UHC, health financing [...]
Categories: Access to medicines, Health, HEART Talks, International Policy and Aid Financing0 Comments
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