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The global health workforce stock and distribution in 2020 and …
Jun 27, 2022 · Results In 2020, the global workforce stock was 29.1 million nurses, 12.7 million medical doctors, 3.7 million pharmacists, 2.5 million dentists, 2.2 million midwives and 14.9 million additional occupations, tallying to 65.1 million health workers. It was not equitably distributed with a 6.5-fold difference in density between high-income and low-income countries.
Sudan: from a forgotten war to an abandoned healthcare system
Oct 29, 2024 · Health profile pre-war and new challenges. Prior to the war, the country’s health profile was characterised by a double burden of diseases—predominantly communicable diseases, marked by recurrent outbreaks and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).11 The war has not only further deteriorated Sudan’s compromised health profile but has also brought about new health challenges, such as conflict ...
The empirical evidence underpinning the concept and practice of …
Dec 9, 2020 · Introduction Person-centred care has become internationally recognised as a critical attribute of high-quality healthcare. However, the concept has been criticised for being poorly theorised and operationalised. Serious illness is especially aligned with the need for person-centredness, usually necessitating involvement of significant others, management of clinical uncertainty, high-quality ...
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BMJ Global Health is an Open Access, online journal from BMJ dedicated to publishing high-quality peer-reviewed content relevant to those involved in global health, including policy makers, funders, researchers, clinicians and frontline healthcare workers. To find out more about the journal’s vision, please read the introductory editorial …
Trends and projections of caesarean section rates: global and …
Jun 15, 2021 · Background The caesarean section (CS) rate continues to increase across high-income, middle-income and low-income countries. We present current global and regional CS rates, trends since 1990 and projections for 2030.Methods We obtained nationally representative data on the CS rate from countries worldwide from 1990 to 2018. We used routine health information systems reports and population ...
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BMJ Global Health is an open access, online journal from BMJ dedicated to publishing high-quality peer-reviewed content relevant to those involved in global health, including policy makers, funders, researchers, clinicians and frontline healthcare workers. To find out more about the journal’s vision, please read the introductory editorial …
The global health and economic value of COVID-19 vaccination
Sep 7, 2024 · Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic triggered one of the largest global health and economic crises in recent history. COVID-19 vaccination (CV) has been the central tool for global health and macroeconomic recovery, yet estimates of CV’s global health and macroeconomic value remain scarce.Methods We used regression analyses to measure the impact of CV on gross domestic product (GDP ...
The good and the bad: using C reactive protein to distinguish …
May 27, 2020 · C reactive protein (CRP), a marker for the presence of an inflammatory process, is the most extensively studied marker for distinguishing bacterial from non-bacterial infections in febrile patients. A point-of-care test for bacterial infections would be of particular use in low-resource settings where other laboratory diagnostics are not always available, antimicrobial resistance rates are ...
Global health security and the health-security nexus: principles ...
Sep 24, 2023 · The past four decades have seen a steady rise of references to ‘security’ by health academics, policy-makers and practitioners, particularly in relation to threats posed by infectious disease pandemics. Yet, despite an increasingly dominant health security discourse, the many different ways in which health and security issues and actors intersect have remained largely unassessed and ...