Browsing by Author "MAC LACHLAN, MALCOLM"
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Access to health care of persons with disabilities as an indicator of equity in health systems
MAC LACHLAN, MALCOLM; MANNAN, HASHEEM (2011)The outcomes of certain health services can be used to assess the overall effectiveness of a health care system. For example, maternal mortality is an indicator of the quality of a country?s maternal health services, which ... -
Core concepts of human rights and inclusion of vulnerable groups in the mental health policies of Malawi, Namibia, and Sudan
MAC LACHLAN, MALCOLM (2013)Abstract Background: One of the most crucial steps towards delivering judicious and comprehensive mental health care is the formulation of a policy and plan that will navigate mental health systems. For policy-makers, ... -
The EquiFrame Manual: A tool for Evaluating and Promoting the Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups and Core Concepts of Human Rights in Health Policy Documents
MANNAN, HASHEEM; MAC LACHLAN, MALCOLM (The Global Health Press, 2011)The purpose of this manual is to outline an analytical framework for assessing the degree to which social inclusion and human rights feature in policy and policy-related documents. The framework was developed with ... -
EquiFrame: A framework for analysis of the inclusion of human rights and vulnerable groups in health policies.
MANNAN, HASHEEM; MAC LACHLAN, MALCOLM (2011)Ensuring that health policies uphold core concepts of human rights and are inclusive of vulnerable groups are imperative aspects of providing equity in health care, and of realizing the United Nations? call for Health for ... -
Measuring and managing the work environment of the mid-level provider - the neglected human resource.
NORMAND, CHARLES; MAC LACHLAN, MALCOLM; HEVEY, DAVID; MCAULIFFE, EILISH; UDUMA, OGENNA (2009)Background Much has been written in the past decade about the health workforce crisis that is crippling health service delivery in many middle-income and low-income countries. Countries having lost most of their highly ... -
Non-use of Formal Health Services in Malawi: Perceptions from Non-users.
MAC LACHLAN, MALCOLM (2014)BACKGROUND: The study upon which this paper is based was undertaken to understand users' and non-users' perceptions concerning facilitators and barriers to equitable and universal access to health care in resource-poor ... -
Policies and Processes for Social Inclusion: Using EquiFrame and EquIPP for Policy Dialogue Comment on "Are Sexual and Reproductive Health Policies Designed for All? Vulnerable Groups in Policy Documents of Four European Countries and Their Involvement in Policy Development".
MAC LACHLAN, MALCOLM (2015)The application of EquiFrame in the analysis of sexual and reproductive health policies by Ivanova et al to a new thematic area, their selection of only some of the Core Concepts of human rights in health service provision ... -
Retention of health workers in Malawi: perspectives of health workers and district management.
NORMAND, CHARLES; MCAULIFFE, EILISH; MAC LACHLAN, MALCOLM; UDUMA, OGENNA (2009)Background Shortage of human resources is a major problem facing Malawi, where more than 50% of the population lives in rural areas. Most of the district health services are provided by clinical health officers specially ... -
Rethinking global health research: towards integrative expertise
MAC LACHLAN, MALCOLM (2009)The Bamako Call for Action on Research for Health stresses the importance of inter-disciplinary, inter-ministerial and inter-sectoral working. This challenges much of our current research and postgraduate research training ... -
Self in Schizophrenia: A Discourse Analysis
MEEHAN, TRUDY; MAC LACHLAN, MALCOLM (2008)Objectives: Lysaker and Lysaker (2002) employ a dialogical theory of self in their writings on self disruption in schizophrenia. It is argued here that this theory could be enriched by incorporating a discursive and ...