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Summary Report on the Implementation of Maternal-Perinatal Health Care Packages
Publication

This document compiles and systematizes stakeholders’ experiences planning and implementing projects funded by international cooperation resources that facilitate the provision of maternal-perinatal health care.

Country/region: Colombia
Pilot project Barranquilla
News

Using performance-based financing, this pilot project represents a significant achievement for the Colombian healthcare system, improving the optimization of financial resources, enhancing key indicators, and notably impacting outcomes, especially for migrant pregnant women—an area receiving special attention from local and national health authorities.

Country/region: Colombia
Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health Equity
Jamaica public-private partnership overcome covid19 teaser
Success Story

Two years ago, as it struggled to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus and get people vaccinated, the Government of Jamaica turned to private health care providers for help. The results went well beyond its expectations.

Country/region: Jamaica
Tajikistan vaccine cold chain inventory assessment report
Publication

The assessment findings inform the MoHSPP and its international partners on interventions to improve the quality of vaccination services, not only for COVID-19 but beyond. This ultimately leads to increased access to improved services in Tajikistan.

Country/region: Tajikistan
tajikistan video5
Video

The video provides evidence-based information about COVID-19 vaccination to decrease vaccine hesitancy among women. It discusses the importance and benefits of vaccination for women and their families.

Country/region: Tajikistan
Knowledge Areas: Health Area: COVID-19
tajikistan video4
Video

The video includes an explanation of the importance of COVID-19 boosters by the United States-based expert Dr. Arash Alaei. Dr. Alaei is a general physician who had been a consultant for the World Health Organization and the Tajikistan Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Population during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Country/region: Tajikistan
Knowledge Areas: Health Area: COVID-19
tajikistan video3
Video

This video portrays the experience of a family in which a daughter was dealing with vaccine side effects. It provides guidance on how to react to possible side effects and what to do to recover from them.

Country/region: Tajikistan
Knowledge Areas: Health Area: COVID-19
tajikistan video2
Video

The video explains immunity and illustrates why maintaining healthy lifestyles is important.

Country/region: Tajikistan
Knowledge Areas: Health Area: COVID-19
tajikistan video1
Video

The video includes evidence-based information about vaccination against COVID-19 and the importance of booster shots for women, youth, older adults, and people with disabilities.

Country/region: Tajikistan
Knowledge Areas: Health Area: COVID-19
LAC webinar TEASER
Event

Join LHSS, Doctors without Borders, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Honduras as we discuss the relationship between social protection in health and migration corridors in Latin America.

Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health
Colombia resumen adaptacion
Publication

This document describes the interventions implemented by Healthy Communities (LHSS) to evaluate and modify the Primary Health Care Assessment (PCAT) tool for Colombia and create an application to collect and analyze survey data from the tool.

Country/region: Colombia
Proceso de Pilotaje de la Herramienta
Publication

This annex of the report "Adaptation and Validation of the Primary Health Care Assessment Tool (PCAT) in Colombia" serves to adapt and validate the tool (PCAT) to the Colombian context to know and monitor the progress of the implementation of PHC Primary Health Care.

Country/region: Colombia
Summary Adapting and Validating the Primary Health Care Assessment Tool in Colombia
Publication

​​​​​​​This document describes the interventions implemented by the Local Health System Sustainability Project (LHSS) to evaluate and modify the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT) for Colombia and create an application to compile and analyze data from the tool’s surveys. This tool and its application will help health providers to access data on Primary Health Care (PHC) services, which can be used to improve decision-making and policy formulation within the health care sector. This is an English language summary of the full report, which is available in Spanish.

Country/region: Colombia
Adaptación y validación de la herramienta de evaluación de la Atención Primaria en Salud (PCAT)1 en Colombia
Publication

This Spanish report addresses the adaptation and validation of the Primary Health Care Evaluation (PCAT) tool in Colombia. In the context of the reform of the General Social Security System in Health and the Primary Health Care (PHC) strategy, it focuses on the relevance of health education and the implementation of comprehensive service networks. 

Country/region: Colombia
colombia mannual
Publication

This methodological and pedagogical manual offers guidelines for the development of the Health Education (EpS) process within the framework of the Comprehensive Health Care Routes (RIAS). These routes represent a significant shift in Colombia's public health policy by prioritizing health education. 

Country/region: Colombia
 

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