Health

  • Gender and health

    The dossier 'Gender and health' aims to provide insight into how gender roles and relations affect women’s health. Furthermore, it shows what is being undertaken to address women's, and men's, health needs and rights, and to promote equal access to health care.

     

  • Health and poverty

    In partnership with a number of Dutch organizations, KIT started the project Information for Health Action (I4HA). This project aims to promote the use of information to improve the health of the poor and to reduce poverty. This dossier provides background information on this topic.

     

  • Health-related stigma

    The main aim of this dossier is to provide information on health-related stigma and its harmful consequences, including discrimination and social exclusion and to provide links to other resources on this topic. The dossier is a spin-off of the activities of the International Consortium for Research and Action Against health-related Stigma (ICRAAS).

  • Human resources for health

    This dossier is about Human Resources for Health (HRH). As HRH are an essential part of health systems, HRH policies can not be successful without efforts to improve the overall functioning of the health system.

  • Laboratory quality strengthening

    KIT has developed a training programme consisting of a series of courses covering all aspects of laboratory quality management. KIT also provides advisory services directed at the technical and managerial upgrading of laboratory services as well as the planning and integration of these services in the health system. This dossier aims to provide background information on the topic.

     

  • Malaria in pregnancy

    Pregnant women in developing countries are a risk group which is threatened by malaria. This dossier focuses on the issues related to malaria in pregnancy, an often neglected topic.

  • Maternal health

    This dossier serves as a background to the Maternal Health portal. The portal shares examples of practical projects and initiatives that have been undertaken with the explicit objective of contributing to the attainment of Millennium Development Goal 5. Another aim of the dossier is to file (scientific) documents that are relevant to all maternal health specialists, ranging from midwives to policy makers.

     

  • Realist inquiry

    Public health interventions are complex interventions located within complex and open health and social systems. Realist inquiry can help unravel mechanisms of change in complex, open systems. It can help reveal how the interaction of an intervention with a specific context triggers reactions (mechanisms) which cause certain outcomes to occur.

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