AbulKalam Azad, Muhammad Abdul Hannan Khan, V. Oliveira Cruz
Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in digital health in recent years. Through one of the world’s largest deployments to date of the open-source District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2), the country now has a national public sector health data warehouse. Information from previously fragmen...
Piya Hanvoravongchai, Sandra Mounier‐Jack, V. Oliveira Cruz, Dina Balabanova et al.
BACKGROUND: One of the key concerns in determining the appropriateness of establishing a measles eradication goal is its potential impact on routine immunization services and the overall health system. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of accelerated measles elimination activiti...
Taufique Joarder, Samiun Nazrin Bente Kamal Tune, Md. Nuruzzaman, Sabina Alam et al.
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the current workload and staffing need of physicians and nurses for delivering optimum healthcare services at the Upazila Health Complexes (UpHCs) in Bangladesh. DESIGN: Mixed-methods, combining qualitative (eg, document reviews, key informant interviews, in-dep...
V. Oliveira‐Cruz, Jeanne Kowalski, Barbara McPake
Discussions on the use of anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) in developing countries have in the past focused on the limitations caused by the high cost of the drugs and by the lack of health system capacity to adequately deliver and make use of them (Colebunders et al. 2000; The New York Times 2001). An ...
Valeria de Oliveira Cruz, M. Rabiul Islam, Md. Nuruzzaman
According to the constitution of Bangladesh, health is a right and, in 2012, initial work towards universal health coverage was marked by introduction of a health-care financing strategy. However, for 2016, Bangladesh's domestic general government health expenditure was only 0.42% of gross domestic ...
Md. Nuruzzaman, Tomas Zapata, Valeria de Oliveira Cruz, Sabina Alam et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh's Health system is characterized by severe shortage and unequitable distribution of the formally trained health workforce. In this context, government of Bangladesh uses fixed staffing norms for its health facilities. These norms do not always reflect the actual requirement in...
Aungsumalee Pholpark, Hsu Myat Mon, Leonard Thomas Sy Lim, Tsolmongerel Tsilaajav et al.
Strengthening primary health care (PHC) is essential for achieving universal health coverage, with effective financing playing a critical role in its success. Despite the increasing emphasis on PHC investment, securing sustainable public financing remains a significant challenge in the countries of ...
Taufique Joarder, Samiun Nazrin Bente Kamal Tune, Taqbir Us Samad Talha, Md. Nuruzzaman et al.
BackgroundImprovement of health workers' performance is vital for the improvement of health-care service delivery, and workload management is an important factor in improving performance. This study aimed to assess the current workload and staffing need for delivering optimum health-care services in...
Piya Hanvoravongchai, Sandra Mounier‐Jack, Valeria Oliveira Cruz, Dina Balabanova et al.
Abstract This chapter evaluates the impacts of accelerated measles elimination activities (AMEAs) on immunization services and health systems in six countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Tajikistan, and Vietnam. The impacts of AMEAs are assessed according to the following components: go...