HEART Talks
John Walley is a Professor of International Public Health at the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, University of Leeds. He is also the Co-Research Director of the Health Service Delivery Research Programme Consortium (COMDIS-HSD). COMDIS-HSD is a £7.5 million DFID funded, seven country research programme, incorporating service delivery themes ofprimary care, urban health,… Read more
The primary aim of this Framework for Action is to clarify and strengthen WHO’s role in health systems in a changing world. The building blocks that make up a health system are defined. They are: service delivery; health workforce; information; medical products, vaccines and technologies; financing; and leadership and governance (stewardship). The framework identifies strategies… Read more
Why a renewal of Primary Health Care (PHC), and why now, more than ever? This report argues that moving towards health for all requires that health systems respond to the challenges of a changing world and growing expectations for better performance. This involves substantial reorientation and reform of the ways health systems operate in society… Read more
This document includes the following two guidelines: Diagnosis and management of type 2 diabetes in primary health care in low-resource settings: The primary goal of this guideline is to improve the quality of care and the outcome in people with type 2 diabetes in low-resource settings. It recommends a set of basic interventions to integrate… Read more
This is a generic desk guide for managing cardiovascular disease, diabetes and hypertension in adults in LMICs. This desk guide is a concise “quick reference” for doctors, clinical officers, paramedics, nurses and counsellors to use when providing routine care and health education to all patients. The initial assessment pages are designed for use with any… Read more
Nutrition surveillance – or the systematic and periodic collection of information on nutrition – is vital to the capacity of governments and other agencies to track their progress towards reducing undernutrition, to promoting the accountability of their actions and to improving their ability to respond promptly to rapid changes in nutrition status brought about by… Read more
Putting an end to the current nutrition crisis by 2030 is possible, but only if nutrition is embedded within a post-2015 development framework. Undernutrition continues to afflict 170 million children worldwide and is responsible for nearly 3 million child deaths each year. The life-long and wideranging effects of undernutrition cannot be overstated – brain damage,… Read more
In this paper, the authors develop a new metric for the distribution of educational achievement across countries that can further track the cognitive skill distribution within countries and over time. A close relationship between educational achievement and GDP growth is identified that is remarkably stable. In a series of approaches for addressing causality, the authors… Read more
Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is a leader in the development of economic analysis of educational issues. His research spans such diverse areas as the impact of teacher quality, high stakes accountability, equity and efficiency in school finance, and class size reduction… Read more
This helpdesk report provides an annotated bibliography of Eric A. Hanushek’s recent work. Hanushek is from Stanford University and is a world leader in the development of economic analysis of educational issues. The focus of this report is on the papers written in the last five years (since 2008). Full versions of the papers included… Read more
Dr. Gillespie works as a Senior Research Fellow for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and currently a visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. He is also the CEO of the Transform Nutrition Research Program Consortium – a six-partner consortium that seeks to transform thinking and action on “the neglected crisis of… Read more