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Malaria Control - Ghana

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The objectives of this programme were to determine the impact of health sector reform on a malaria vertical disease control programme, and to determine if malaria control could be successfully integrated into district health plans. Six districts participated in the programme, and each district approached these objectives according to their own needs and resources.
Communication Strategies

Strategies utilized by the different districts of Ghana include, decentralisation of service delivery, community based health education, bringing services closer to the community, reduction of polypharmacy, increasing cost-effectiveness of malaria treatment and quality of service delivery, studying the interaction between prescriber performance and disease outcome, monitoring impact of prompt diagnosis and - treatment in absenteeism of primary schoolchildren.
Development Issues

Health, malaria control, education, children
Key Points

The project was completed late in 1997, a major finding (among others) of the project is that research into the quality of client prescriber and client dispenser communication found that training of prescribers in interpersonal and communication skills has a positive impact on their practice in terms of information provision to clients
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Health Sector Reform Research Work Programme, Ghana Ministry of Health, District health centres

Sources

Information obtained at the Shared Project Information Database, Project Summary

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 03/05/2006 - 12:00 Permalink

Iwanted to Know how malaria started in Ghana!! But thanks any way!!