Items tagged with “Sierra Leone”
Assessment of readiness for a Sector Wide Approach for Health in Sierra Leone
Following the peace agreement of 2002, Sierra Leone is in the recovery process of rethinking governance, policy and management arrangements as well as engagement with civil society. The recent national health strategy draft advocates for a move towards…
Live from the Pacific Health Summit
Follow the link below to read as journalist John Donnelly blogs from London at this exclusive forum where global leaders meet.
Second Annual Research Symposium: Sierra Leone Health and Biomedical Research Group
Health research in Sierra Leone is currently conducted, managed, and financed by diverse organizations, with very little coordination. Seeking to improve coordination and share knowledge, a group of concerned scientists, physicians, medical students,…
Mothers and infants to get free health care in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone will abolish user fees for mothers and infants accessing the health system in a bid to reduce the country’s staggering maternal and infant mortality rates.
Paying Primary Health Care Centers for Performance in Rwanda
Paying for performance (P4P) provides financial incentives for providers to increase the use and quality of care. P4P can affect health care by providing incentives for providers to put more effort into specific activities, and by increasing the amount…
Managing the Millenium Health Development Goals- The Challenge of Health Management Strengthening
Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will require a significant scaling up of health service delivery in many countries. The number of competent managers will also have to be scaled up at the same time – managers are an essential…
Leadership and Management
A broken health system is a silent killer. People get sicker and die in disproportionate numbers just as they do during an epidemic. Yet the culprit is not lack of knowledge. Nor is it always a shortage of funds. Technically and medically, we know what…
