As estimativas adequadas de mortalidade são importantes para entender a
dinâmica demográfica, compreender as mudanças de saúde de uma população e
melhorar o planejamento dos países. Entretanto, em diversos países em
desenvolvimento, como é o caso de Moçambique, a baixa qualidade ou a
inexistê...
Background: Loss to follow-up of HIV-positive patients before initiation of antiretroviral therapy can exceed 50% in low-income settings and is a challenge to the scale-up of treatment. We implemented point-of-care counting of CD4 cells in Mozambique and assessed the effect on loss to follow-up before im...
Age Factors,
Ambulatory Care,
Attitude to Health,
CD4 Lymphocyte Count,
Cohort Studies,
Confidence Intervals,
Developing Countries,
Treatment Outcome,
Patient Compliance,
Mozambique,
Retrospective Studies,
Socioeconomic Factors
Sacarlal, Jahit 123;
Nhacolo, Ariel Q;
Sigaúque, Betuel;
Nhalungo, Delino A;
Abacassamo, Fatima;
Sacoor, Charfudin N;
Aide, Pedro;
Machevo, Sonia;
Nhampossa, Tacilta;
Macete, Eusébio V;
Bassat, Quique;
David, Catarina;
Bardají, Azucena;
Letang, Emili;
Saúte, Francisco;
Aponte, John J;
Thompson, Ricardo;
Alonso, Pedro L.
Approximately 46 million of the estimated 60 million deaths that occur in the world each year take place in developing countries. Further, this mortality is highest in Sub-Saharan Africa, although causes of mortality in this region are not well documented. The objective of this study is to describe the m...
O trabalho e a reflexão sobre as problemáticas dos Recursos Humanos da Saúde (RHS) no sistema de saúde em Moçambique é surpreendente. Moçambique pode-se orgulhar de inovações que têm conduzido, de uma forma sustentada, a uma melhoria, que vai ao encontro das suas metas. Muito tem sido alcançad...
Health Resources,
Workforce,
Health Services,
Growth and Development,
Health Policy,
Investments,
World Health Organization,
Public Sector,
Private Sector,
Mozambique,
Supply,
Socioeconomic Factors,
Health Profile
When Mozambique became independent in 1975, the country was one
of the poorest countries in the world. Most of the people lived
~ in extreme poverty and were illiterate, with an illiteracy rate
' that was in between 85-90%;(UNDP,1993) The people suffered from preventable ,communicable diseases, with
high...
O estudo da condição física (CF) as populações tem, nas últimas décadas. Conhecido um crescimento interessante da sua associação aos hábitos de actividade física e ao estado de saúde e bem-estar [Bouchard et al, Malina 1989].
Com efeito, às sociedades industrializadas têm- se levantado prob...
Urban Population,
Motor Activity,
Physical Fitness,
Physics,
Mozambique,
Socioeconomic Factors,
Adolescent,
Child, Preschool,
Risk Factors,
Pulmonary Heart Disease
Recently, the Mozambican health sector has been struggling with some of the most problematic yet common questions related to the financial sustainability of its public health service. In common with other resource-constrained countries in the region, Mozambique has developed targets for poverty reduction...
