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Under-resourced government health systems in sub-Saharan Africa often provide poor quality services. How can policy-makers improve healthcare standards without unsustainable increases in expenditure? The Tanzania Family Health Project implemented a range of interventions involving staff, facilities and services in the...

Atherton, Frank; Health care health service Tanzania Family health; Health care health service Tanzania Family health

This training manual or guidelines is written purposely to assist the trainers of the Community Health Fund, basically the Districts health trainers (Trainers of trainees). It also intend to develop health financing schemes that serve the rural population to develop a balanced formal health insurance scheme, for civil...

Training manual Community health fund CHF Health Health trainers Tanzania; Training manual Community health fund CHF Health Health trainers Tanzania

This is a scheme which is prepared by the government of Tanzania as a means of accomplishing its strategies for health sector reforms through ensuring greater security of access to health care, empowering households and communities in health care decisions and promoting cost sharing with strong local participation and...

Muhimbili University Of Health Exchange Forum; Health fund Health CHF Tanzania; Health fund Health CHF Tanzania

The economic crisis of 1980s in Tanzania had had a profound effects which greatly affect the provision of social services, such changes in economic system enforce the government to introduce Cost sharing in health sector. These guidelines are therefore made for the purposes of assisting all those who are participating...

Community Health CHF Operations guidelines Tanzania; Community Health CHF Operations guidelines Tanzania

Aims—To assess changes in incidence of

Poole, T R G; British Journal of Ophthalmology; Conjunctival squamous Carcinoma Health Tanzania; Conjunctival squamous Carcinoma Health Tanzania

Distribution of oral iodized oil capsules (IOC) is an important intervention in areas with iodine deficiency disorders

Peterson,Stefan|Assey, Vincent|Forsberg, Birger Carl|Greiner, Ted|Kavishe, Festo. P|Mduma, Benedicta|Rosling, Hans; Health Cost of iodized oil capsule Oil capsule Iodized oil capsule; Health Cost of iodized oil capsule Oil capsule Iodized oil capsule

The government of Tanzania; Demographic surveillance Adult morbidity Adult mortality Health Tanzania; Demographic surveillance Adult morbidity Adult mortality Health Tanzania

The Iringa Nutrition Project (INP) supported jointly by the Government of Tanzania and UNICEF was started in 1984 as one way to improve rural livelihood. It was implemented in Iringa region because it was found that despite good food supply in the region, there were still high rates of malnutrition among children. The...

Msuya, J.M.;|Kinabo, J.L; Sokoine University of Agriculture Rural development Iringa Population, Health and Nutrition Agriculture & Livestock Tanzania; Sokoine University of Agriculture Rural development Iringa Population; Health and Nutrition Agriculture & Livestock Tanzania

The demand for blood transfusion is high in sub-Saharan Africa because of the high prevalence of anaemia

Mercer, Alec|Jacobs, Bart; Blood banking Blood donation Health Health development Blood Tanzania; Blood banking Blood donation Health Health development Blood Tanzania

Counseling services have always been a component of the health care system in Tanzania. The document provides guidelines that will help to standardize, streamline, and ensure the quality of counseling for the sick including those with HIV/AIDS.

Tanzania United Republic; Counselling National AIDS Control Programme Tanzania AIDS HIV NACP Population, Health and Nutrition; Health and Nutrition; Counselling National AIDS Control Programme Tanzania AIDS HIV NACP Population

This training guidelines provide a framework for planning a surveillance system for congenital rubella syndrome and in the rubella elimination phase,rubella itself,the guidelines also remarkably point out the need for specific countries to improve the reporting system mainly the developing countries have not yet devel...

WHO; Health Health care Rubella Congenital rubella syndrome Guidelines; Health Health care Rubella Congenital rubella syndrome Guidelines

The main interest of this study is to obtain the necessary cost data for providing essential services at dispensary, health center, District hospital levels, for the purpose of enabling the Ministry of Health, The government of Tanzania, and local government, to be aware about the real cost of the health services need...

The government of Tanzania; Health care Care financing Health services Tanzania; Health care Care financing Health services Tanzania

Tanzania United Republic; Tanzania Health statistics Health Population, Health and Nutrition; Health and Nutrition; Tanzania Health statistics Health Population

HIV/AIDS/STDs surveillance report; HIV AIDS STD's ZACP Report Surveillance AIDS Control Population, Health and Nutrition; Health and Nutrition; HIV AIDS STD's ZACP Report Surveillance AIDS Control Population

Mchenga, Ali S.|Abdulla, Asha A.; Zanzibar Population Development Population,health and nutrition NGO; Zanzibar Population Development Population; health and nutrition NGO