Health Priorities - Organization & administration
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals for South Africa: challenges and priorities.

22 Aug 2009 15 years after liberation from apartheid, South Africans are facing new challenges for which the highest calibre of leadership, vision, and commitment is needed. The effect of the unprecedented HIV/AIDS epidemic has been immense. Substantial ... Read more...

Violence and injuries in South Africa: prioritising an agenda for prevention.

22 Aug 2009 Violence and injuries are the second leading cause of death and lost disability-adjusted life years in South Africa. The overall injury death rate of 157.8 per 100,000 population is nearly twice the global average, and the rate of homicide of women ... Read more...

HIV infection and tuberculosis in South Africa: an urgent need to escalate the public health response.

22 Aug 2009 One of the greatest challenges facing post-apartheid South Africa is the control of the concomitant HIV and tuberculosis epidemics. HIV continues to spread relentlessly, and tuberculosis has been declared a national emergency. In 2007, South Africa, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Priorities - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Nutrition in early life: a global priority. Oct 2009
• Rethinking the responsiveness requirement for international research. 3 Sep 2009
• South Africa steps up. 3 Sep 2009
• Revitalising health in Afghanistan. 27 Aug 2009
• Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals for South Africa: challenges and priorities. 22 Aug 2009
• Violence and injuries in South Africa: prioritising an agenda for prevention. 22 Aug 2009
• HIV infection and tuberculosis in South Africa: an urgent need to escalate the public health response. 22 Aug 2009
• Influencing policy to advance practice in ways that improve health. 29 Jun 2009
• Why patient safety must be at the top of the agenda at every level. 29 Jun 2009
• Alcohol: a global health priority. 25 Jun 2009
• Setting priorities for health interventions in developing countries: a review of empirical studies. 24 Jun 2009
• Drug and vaccine development for infectious diseases: the value of priority review vouchers. 30 May 2009
• Priority review vouchers: an inefficient and dangerous way to promote neglected-disease drug development. 30 May 2009
• Launch of the health-care reform plan in China. 16 Apr 2009
• Setting research priorities by applying the combined approach matrix. 30 Mar 2009
• [Prioritisation in the German health care system--an issue in ophthalmology?] 15 Mar 2009
• [Cost-utility analysis as a mechanism for allocation of health care resources: a review of the debate] 30 Jan 2009
• The relationship between drivers and policy in the implementation of cultural competency training in health care. 30 Jan 2009
• Family wellness, not HIV prevention. 14 Jan 2009
• Experiences from the Swedish determinants-based public health policy. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Health Priorities'

Definition: Preferentially rated health-related activities or functions to be used in establishing health planning goals. This may refer specifically to PL93-641.

Descriptor UI: D006292

Alternative terms: Health Priorities; Priorities, Health; Health Priority; Priority, Health;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N03.349.330; N05.300.400;

History Note: 91(80); was see under HEALTH PLANNING 1980-90