Taati Ithindi
Biographic Data
| ID | 7688291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Taati Ithindi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Taati |
| FAMILY NAME | Ithindi |
| SIGNATURE | ITHINDI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ministry of Health and Social Services |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Measuring maternal near-miss in a middle-income country
Background: Namibia, a middle-income country in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), plans to use the Maternal Near Miss (MNM) approach. Adaptations of the World Health Organization (WHO) MNM defining criteria (‘WHO MNM criteria’) were previously proposed for low-income settings in sub-Saharan Africa (‘SSA MNM criteria’), but whether these adaptations are required in middle-income settings is unknown.Objective: To establish MNM criteria suitable for use in …
A step too far? Making health equity interventions in Namibia more sufficient
BACKGROUND: Equality of health status is the health equity goal being pursued in developed countries and advocated by development agencies such as WHO and The Rockefeller Foundation for developing countries also. Other concepts of fair distribution of health such as equity of access to medical care may not be sufficient to equalise health outcomes but, nevertheless, they may be more practical and effective in advancing health equity in developing…
Adding value and equity to primary healthcare through partnership working to establish a viable community health workers’ programme in Namibia
Community health worker (CHW ) programmes have been criticized on two fronts: either as being inappropriate for effectively improving healthcare in impoverished societies, or as being fraught with relationship problems between partners. This paper uses an example from Namibia to suggest that both these criticisms can be overcome: the first by clarifying the objectives of a CHW programme, the second by careful planning. It is concluded that CHW pr…
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A step too far? Making health equity interventions in Namibia more sufficient
BACKGROUND: Equality of health status is the health equity goal being pursued in developed countries and advocated by development agencies such as WHO and The Rockefeller Foundation for developing countries also. Other concepts of fair distribution of health such as equity of access to medical care may not be sufficient to equalise health outcomes but, nevertheless, they may be more practical and effective in advancing health equity in developing…
Adding value and equity to primary healthcare through partnership working to establish a viable community health workers’ programme in Namibia
Community health worker (CHW ) programmes have been criticized on two fronts: either as being inappropriate for effectively improving healthcare in impoverished societies, or as being fraught with relationship problems between partners. This paper uses an example from Namibia to suggest that both these criticisms can be overcome: the first by clarifying the objectives of a CHW programme, the second by careful planning. It is concluded that CHW pr…
Measuring maternal near-miss in a middle-income country
Background: Namibia, a middle-income country in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), plans to use the Maternal Near Miss (MNM) approach. Adaptations of the World Health Organization (WHO) MNM defining criteria (‘WHO MNM criteria’) were previously proposed for low-income settings in sub-Saharan Africa (‘SSA MNM criteria’), but whether these adaptations are required in middle-income settings is unknown.Objective: To establish MNM criteria suitable for use in …
Economic growth (3 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Developing country (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Equity (law (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Health equity (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Political science (2 works)