Magazine article from our research archive:
|
|
Developing geostatistical space-time models to predict outpatient treatment burdens from incomplete national data.(Report)
- Article from:
-
Geographical Analysis
- Article date:
-
April 1, 2008
- Author:
- Gething, Peter W.; Noor, Abdisalan M.; Gikandi, Priscilla W.; Hay, Simon I.; Nixon, Mark S.; Snow, Robert W.; Atkinson, Peter M.
|
Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 Ohio State University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Basic health system data such as the number of patients utilizing different health facilities and the types of illness for which they are being treated are critical for managing service provision. These data requirements are generally addressed with some form of national Health Management Information System (HMIS), which coordinates the routine collection and compilation of data from national health facilities. HMIS in most developing countries are characterized by widespread underreporting. Here we present a method to adjust incomplete data to allow prediction of national outpatient treatment burdens. We demonstrate this method with the example of outpatient treatments for malaria within ...
|
Zambia's 44 percent health facilities own HIV-testing system:report
Xinhua News Agency;
January 6, 2007 ;
140 words
...Zambia's 44 percent health facilities own HIV-testing system:report LUSAKA...indicated that 44 percent of all the health facilities surveyed had HIV- testing systems. Among the health facilities, 88 percent of hospitals had that...
|
|
Police to patrol health facilities
The Weekly Gleaner;
April 3, 2008 ;
Anonymous;
289 words
......POLICE PERSONNEL are to patrol some health facilities across the island in an effort to...said recent events at a number of health facilities had left the Government concerned...indiscipline and violence at our health facilities." The minister said most things were...
|
|
'Kingsway will need health facilities fast'
Citizen Gloucestershire, The;
July 18, 2007 ;
407 words
......gathers pace. Community leaders fear health facilities in Quedgeley cannot cope with the...driving the vast development - said health facilities were part of the infrastructure due...ere's no doubt that there's a plan for health facilities in Kingsway," he said. But Mr Graham...
|
|
32 Private Health Facilities Registered in
Xinhua English Newswire;
April 23, 1997 ;
185 words
...Some 32 private health facilities, including dispensaries, health...new guideline standards for health facilities in the country. Registrar...suspended registration of private health facilities last November, directing all...
|
|
Our education system and health facilities win praise
New Straits Times;
October 14, 2003 ;
V. Anbalagan;
378 words
......14-2003 Our education system and health facilities win praise Byline: V. Anbalagan Edition...Malaysia's education system and basic health facilities have helped create awareness among...Government had made provision for basic health facilities. "Both factors are major contributors...
|
|
Guv suspends health board.(Briefs)(Illinois Health Facilities Planning...
Crain's Chicago Business;
July 12, 2004 ;
112 words
......Blagojevich effectively shut down the scandal-plagued Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board, prohibiting it from meeting or taking any...Gov. Blagojevich appointed a Kankakee neurosurgeon to the health facilities board days after the physician made a $25,000 contribution...
|
|
Other states don't miss their hospital planners.(Opinion)(Health...
Crain's Chicago Business;
July 12, 2004 ;
243 words
......thing in suspending the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board. But, instead of cleaning...eliminated their versions of the Health Facilities Planning Board. As reporter Sarah...status for hospitals. Eliminating the Health Facilities Planning Board would make the hospital...
|
|
Enough health facilities for Sabah's rural folk
New Straits Times;
October 7, 2003 ;
171 words
...New Straits Times 10-07-2003 Enough health facilities for Sabah's rural folk Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2...said RM123.8 million had been set aside to upgrade health facilities in Sabah. "There are 100 family health specialists...
|
|
Kenya to Equip Hospitals, Health Facilities
Xinhua News Agency;
April 22, 2000 ;
183 words
......government plans to equip all highway hospitals and other health facilities for accident emergencies, Permanent Secretary Julius Meme...Meme as saying the idea of equipping highway hospitals and health facilities is to cope with the increasing road accidents. Meme made...
|
|
Pakistan to aid Afghanistan in reconstruction of health facilities
Xinhua News Agency;
January 15, 2003 ;
178 words
...Pakistan to aid Afghanistan in reconstruction of health facilities ISLAMABAD, Jan. 14 (Xinhua)-- Pakistani Federal...Tuesday that Pakistan will assist Afghanistan in health facilities including training of hospital staff and laboratory...
|
|
Regulators Say North Carolina Mental Health Facilities Slow in Death...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;
March 15, 2001 ;
787 words
......state regulators say some N.C. mental health facilities are still failing to report patient...receiving questionable care in mental health facilities. Of those, only one -- a Wake County...lawmakers began requiring private mental health facilities, such as group homes, to report ...
|
|
Higher fees proposed for foreigners who use government health facilities
New Straits Times;
March 18, 2000 ;
331 words
......Higher fees proposed for foreigners who use government health facilities Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2* Alor Star -- ALOR STAR, Fri...following a dramatic increase in their use of government health facilities. Its minister, Datuk Chua Jui Meng, today said the new...
|
|
CA Association of Health Facilities: Write-In Campaign Yields 200,000...
PR Newswire;
January 25, 2003 ;
504 words
......by the California Association of Health Facilities, they met their goal in less than...Sacramento, the California Association of Health Facilities (CAHF) is a non-profit professional...both of California Association of Health Facilities Web site: http://www.cahf.org/
|
|
LEBANON HEALTH FACILITIES HAVE SUFFERED CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
September 6, 2006 ;
736 words
......A newly-published assessment of health facilities in Lebanon shows that a quarter of...Organization, looked at more than 400 health facilities in Lebanon in the areas most affected...to another. In total, 26% of all health facilities are not functioning due to physical...
|
|
WHO, UNAIDS ISSUE NEW GUIDANCE ON HIV TESTING AND COUNSELLING IN HEALTH...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
May 30, 2007 ;
787 words
......counselling in the world's health facilities, with a view to significantly...health care providers in health facilities). Today, approximately...HIV-positive. Recent surveys in sub-Saharan Africa showed...testing and counselling in health facilities, universal access ...
|
See all results.
Or, try our
Advanced Search.
|