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Open AccessRegulation of nursing professionals in Cambodia and Vietnam: a review of the evolution and key influences
In 2006, the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed the Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRA) in relation to nursing services in the region. This agreement was part of a set of ...
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Open AccessPolicy context and narrative leading to the commissioning of the Australian Indigenous Burden of Disease study
Burden of disease (BoD) studies have been conducted in numerous international settings since the early 1990’s. Two national BoD studies have been undertaken in Australia, in 1998 and 2003, although neither stu...
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Open AccessChanging the malaria treatment protocol policy in Timor-Leste: an examination of context, process, and actors’ involvement
In 2007 Timor-Leste, a malaria endemic country, changed its Malaria Treatment Protocol for uncomplicated falciparum malaria from sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine to artemether-lumefantrine. The change in treatment p...
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Open AccessBrain Gains: a literature review of medical missions to low and middle-income countries
Healthcare professionals’ participation in short-term medical missions to low and middle income countries (LMIC) to provide healthcare has become common over the past 50 years yet little is known about the qua...
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Open AccessAnalysis of policy implications and challenges of the Cuban health assistance program related to human resources for health in the Pacific
Cuba has extended its medical cooperation to Pacific Island Countries (PICs) by supplying doctors to boost service delivery and offering scholarships for Pacific Islanders to study medicine in Cuba. Given the ...
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Open AccessProspective policy analysis: how an epistemic community informed policymaking on intentional self poisoning in Sri Lanka
Policy analysis is often retrospective and not well suited to hel** policy makers decide what to do; in contrast prospective policy analysis seeks to assist in formulating responses to challenging public pol...
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Open AccessCommunity perceptions of mental health needs: a qualitative study in the Solomon Islands
Psychosocial and mental health needs in the aftermath of conflict and disaster have attracted substantial attention. In the Solomon Islands, the conceptualisation of mental health, for several decades regarded...
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Open AccessGetting by on credit: how district health managers in Ghana cope with the untimely release of funds
District health systems in Africa depend largely on public funding. In many countries, not only are these funds insufficient, but they are also released in an untimely fashion, thereby creating serious cash fl...
