Legacy’s North African Community Health Initiative will provide community health care professionals from Morocco and Egypt a new set of tools, resources, and knowledge to enhance rural health care services and address some of the pressing needs in their respective communities.
Morocco
Morocco has a population approaching 30 million people. The country has made good progress in the control of preventable childhood diseases, but social and health inequities persist. Despite the progress achieved during the last decade, the country still ranks in 125th place according to the Human Development Index. Read more on health care issues in Morocco:
- World Health Organization (WHO) (Morocco)
- World Health Organization Country Profile for Morocco
- IFES, Focus on Health Care Access in Morocco
- International Journal for Equity in Health, Social Inequities & Health Inequity in Morocco
- Health Affairs, Health Financing & Insurance Reform in Morocco
- World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey, How Does Schooling of Mothers Improve Child Health – Evidence from Morocco
- John Snow Institute, Creating Leaders: Sentinel Women in Morocco
- OMS | Bureaudu Representant au Maroc: Site Officiel (in French)
- Policy Project, USAID, Adolescent & Youth Reproductive Health in Morocco (2003)
- Population Council, Morocco (many links under “resources”)
Egypt
A survey carried out two years ago in Egypt shows that the population suffers from two main difficulties: low income and a poor health care system. Established more that 45 years ago, the health care system today endures major problems: responding poorly to the epidemiological profile, an ineffective referral system, low quality of services delivered, long waiting times at the doctor’s office, a shortage of essentials medicines, and defects with regard to the continuity of care. Read more on health care issues in Egypt:
- World Health Organization (WHO) (Egypt)
- World Health Organization, Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO)
- USAID, et al; Egypt Demographic & Health Survey, 2008
- Global Health Council, Well-Offs in Egypt in Support to the Bad-Offs
- John Snow, Inc, Improving Maternal Health in Egypt
- USAID, Health Systems 20/20, Egypt
- Population Reference Bureau, Making Motherhood Safer in Egypt
- Policy Project, USAID, Adolescent & Youth Reproductive Health in Egypt (2003)
- Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, (WHO); Current situation, progress and prospects of health for all of Egypt
- World Health Organization, Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO), Child & Adolescent Health & Development; Ministry of Health & Population, Egypt (2005)
- WHO, EMRO, Child & Adolescent Health & Development, more current news
- Population Council, Egypt, many links under “resources”
- Population Council, Egypt, Survey of Young People in Egypt, Summary of Results
- Upper Egypt Association (one of the NGOs some of the fellows work with)