The Right to Health through Litigation: Can Court Enforced Health Rights Improve Health Policy?

Cases regarding the right to health care are increasingly brought before courts. In a number of low- and middle-income countries – first in Latin America, later also in Africa and Asia, court decisions have granted access to medical treatment. These are decisions with potentially great implications for how health sector resources are prioritized and allocated, but so far there is little systematic knowledge of the actual effect of such cases on health policy formation and spending.

REACT: Health Related Priority Setting, Tanzania

Health systems authorities in many low many low income countries perceive current management capacity as insufficient to be given full responsibility for priority setting. Moreover, without effective decentralization of the priority setting process, the capacity will never increase. District level services cater for a majority of service contacts. Thus, a District focus is vital to improve quality, equity, accessibility and affordability of care of the overall country services

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PhD MOF: MEDMET1 2012(weeks 6 and 7) (weeks 46 and 47)

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PROMISE EBF: Promoting infant health and nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Safety and efficacy of exclusive breastfeeding promotion in the era of HIV

Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first six months is an effective child survival strategy.

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Strengthening Human Resources for Health: A Study of Health Worker Availability and Performance in Tanzania

Shortage of health personnel and poor health workers’ performance is major constraint on health systems in low-income countries. The project represents an important strategic initiative to provide evidence that will be valuable in addressing health work force crises.

EU FP7 SEAT: Sustaining Ethical Aquaculture Trade

Gender in poverty reduction. Critical Explorations of Norwegian Aid Policy on Gender Equality and Womens Rights

During the last decade gender equality and womens rights have become key issues in international development aid policies, and a main concern in the Millennium effort to eradicate poverty.

New paper from the group

Members of the Bergen Bullying Research group contribute with an empirical research paper in the latest issue of the Journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association. The paper, entitled "A study of basic life assumptions and post-traumatic stress disorder among victims of workplace bullying" is written in Norwegian. An abstract in English is presented here.

Publishing African Neurology Textbook

When the neurologist William Howlett could not find textbooks of medicine his students in Tanzania could recognise themselves in, he decided to write his own.