Год выпуска: 2013 Автор: Daniel Kyabayinze Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 176 ISBN: 9783659362330
Описание
Malaria, one of the world’s greatest public health challenges, kills 750,000 people annually, 90% of them children in sub-Saharan Africa. The burden of malaria can be dramatically reduced and in many cases eliminated, if all people at risk have access to accurate diagnosis and effective treatment. Although parasite-based malaria diagnosis is now a global policy, it remains inaccessible to most people who would benefit from it. Successful roll-out of universal malaria diagnosis will require a strategic mix of community engagement and improved knowledge on health-seeking behaviour, health-worker recruitment and training, sustainable management algorithms and the infrastructure to support them. These are system-wide issues, providing challenges but also huge opportunities for improvement in healthcare delivery. This work examines some of the implications of this revolution in the provision of health care. Developing such an understanding of the opportunities opened by accurate point of...
