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Could the Step-Up deepen healthcare worker brain drain in …
WEBTwo key pillars of the Step-Up – increased regional education opportunities and labour mobility – may well prove to be avenues that contribute to the problem of ‘brain drain’ and deepen the human resource deficits that weaken healthcare systems in aid recipient nations. A critique of the issues that arise with recruitment of health
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Diabetes remains major health challenge in the Pacific
WEBA recent study has identified methodological errors in the surveys conducted through the World Health Organization’s (WHO) STEPwise approach to non-communicable disease (NCD) surveillance (STEPS) in some Pacific Island countries.
Rethinking Health Sector Wide Approaches (SWAp's) through the …
WEBHealth aid has been the subject of an intense analysis, contestation, and improvement effort over the past 20 years. A key driver of this interest has been the rapid growth in the volume of health aid – increasing from $5.6b in 1990 to nearly $28b in 2011 – and the proliferation of agencies delivering health aid – over 40 bilateral donors, 26 UN …
Our health in the Pacific Islands: a deadly storm
WEBThanks for this article, you make some excellent points. Worth clarifying however the following line – ‘Infectious diseases, until now, have been our greatest health challenge.’ with reference to data from the Global Burden of Disease country reports we can see that non communicable diseases have, at least in some parts of the Pacific, been the …
PNG’s health spending increase: will it be well spent
WEBThis increase is also a major win for Australian aid. Australia provided about $100 million in grant budget support to PNG (with more in loans) as part of its COVID-19 response. Some $21.5 million of this was earmarked for church health services. That’s about K50 million, half of the nominal increase of roughly K100 million from 2021 to 2022.
Equality in China’s healthcare infrastructure
WEBIn 2009, the Chinese government unveiled its ambitious, complex healthcare reforms, pledging to provide affordable, equitable and effective health services for all by 2020.Integral to the reforms was strengthening the primary care system – that is, healthcare provided outside of a hospital – through stronger central directives on infrastructure …
NCDs in Asia and the Pacific: recent findings and key challenges
WEBOther recent reporting confirms the importance of NCDs in terms of public health and the economy. The latest International Diabetes Federation Atlas for 2021 notes that by 2045 the world’s population is estimated to grow by 20% but the number of people with diabetes is estimated to increase by 46%. It also estimates that four of the five countries in the world …
PNG’s health data: too much of a good thing – part one
WEBThe malaria-related fields added over time increased the disaggregation of data, for example, into sex and age groups, into presumptive (‘clinical’) diagnosis vs. confirmed diagnosis (by rapid diagnostic test or microscopy), adding Plasmodium species composition for both diagnostic methods, details on the number of administered doses of artemisinin …
Financing health facilities and the free health policy in PNG
WEBProviding free primary health care is a key policy priority of the current Papua New Guinea Government. The Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill, has made reference to his government’s aspirations of ‘saving mothers the one and two kina’ that it can cost them and their children to visit health facilities across the country.
The impact of COVID-19 on foreign aid
WEBAcross the Global South, the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed years of socioeconomic progress, disproportionally harming poor people. Low- and lower-middle-income countries in particular are struggling more than ever to find the resources to support their citizens’ health and wellbeing at this time of crisis.
Helen Evans: a decade on the frontiers of global health
WEBSomething that gave Helen a great deal of personal satisfaction during her years working in global health was the the decision of Gavi’s board to approve a call for applications for the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine from eligible countries, taken at a meeting in Bangladesh in 2010.. Over a quarter of a million women die from cervical …
Challenges for TB prevention and control in PNG
WEBDespite the availability of preventive tuberculosis (TB) medications, TB remains a critical public health challenge in Papua New Guinea. Although PNG is no longer one of the 30 countries with a high TB/HIV burden identified by WHO, a high burden of TB and multidrug-resistant TB remains. In 2011, the Department of Health introduced the National …
My mother was lucky to survive giving birth to me in Papua New …
WEBI was born in the small coastal village of Kivori, in Papua New Guinea’s Central Province. With no healthcare centre nearby, my mother gave birth to me at home, with the help of several traditional birth attendants as well as a traditional healer.
Catastrophic failures in PNG health service delivery
WEBMartha, it’s really a nice piece . Your story line really denoted what was actually the sad situation in PNG health system. I am a village boy once in the 1980s, lived through with the changes in the basic service delivery in the 1990s in my youth, now am an educated father facing this reality.
COVID-19 and TB in PNG: a healthcare opportunity
WEB27 April 2022. Bogia Rural Hospital, Madang Province, PNG (Gigil Marme) In Papua New Guinea, the COVID-19 outbreak has spread rapidly to all 22 provinces, affecting many people. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) reveal that, as of mid-April 2022, more than 43,600 cases have been confirmed, with 649 deaths.
Investigating district-level measures of well-being in PNG
WEBIn two recent discussion papers, we have tried to assess the relative significance of a number of factors that might help to explain the differences in two measures of human well-being between the 85 partially rural districts of Papua New Guinea (PNG).Both of these measures are derived from the 2000 national census. The first is the child mortality rate, …
Strengthening Fragile Healthcare systems: A narrative from Fiji.
WEBNARRATIVE FROM FIJI. FIJI’ FRAGILE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM. Archipelago of 330 islands - 5 larger isles carry bulk of population. Population 864,000. Mean Age of Population; 28 years. Urban population: 56%. Rural/maritime: 44%. 10% live in Squatter settlement (nationally). Suva: 20% in squatter settlements.
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