3. Good health and well-being

Articles overview

• Environmental risk of leptospirosis infections in the Netherlands

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  Leptospirosis is a globally emerging zoonotic disease, associated with various climatic, biotic and abiotic factors. Mapping and quantifying geographical variations in the occurrence of leptospirosis and the surrounding environment offer innovative methods to study disease transmission and to identify associations between the disease and the environment This study aims to investigate geographic variations in leptospirosis […]

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• Staffing remote rural areas in middle- and low-income countries

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  Background: Many countries in middle- and low-income countries today suffer from severe staff shortages and/or maldistribution of health personnel which has been aggravated more recently by the disintegration of health systems in low-income countries and by the global policy environment. One of the most damaging effects of severely weakened and under-resourced health systems is the […]

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  Bulletin 337 – Community financing for health care

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  This Bulletin presents a case study of a Bolivian primary health care project in which two different types of community financing – direct fees and, subsequently, a prepayment plan – were introduced to help finance health services.

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