Education & Health Policy

The Practice of Christian Faith Healing: Does it Have a Place in the Cameroonian Health Care System?

By |2022-05-17T07:40:25+00:00May 17th, 2022|Categories: Education & Health Policy, Publications|Tags: , |

Patients who resort to faith healing usually experience different health outcomes. Some patients get instant healing; that is, they get cured of the disease they have been suffering from, which led to their encounter with the healer.

Double Standards Redux: The Ethics of Future Covid-19 Vaccine Research

By |2021-12-14T12:43:39+00:00April 14th, 2021|Categories: covid19, Education & Health Policy, Health, Publications|Tags: , , |

The global response to Covid-19 has been heavily tilted towards vaccines to the neglect of treatments; in fact, from the very onset of the epidemic we’ve hardly been hearing about treatments but only about vaccines, as if vaccines are the treatment.

The Promise of Digital Health In Africa

By |2021-12-14T12:45:56+00:00March 8th, 2021|Categories: Education & Health Policy, Publications|Tags: |

Achieving the promise of digital healthcare technology however, while avoiding its potential pitfalls, will require a comprehensive, systematic approach based on the principles of sustainability, equity and inclusion. This is because to ensure the use of digital technology to access health care services

Impact of Covid-19 on the Continuum of Care

By |2021-12-14T12:47:19+00:00March 8th, 2021|Categories: covid19, Education & Health Policy, Publications|Tags: , , |

As researchers still battle to find a vaccine, and the absence of pre-existing immunity due to the novelty of the virus, there are several reasons to foresee devastating consequences of large outbreaks of COVID-19 in Africa’s routine health care activities. Possible reasons for these expected devastating...

Low Covid-19 Cases In Africa. What Explains This?

By |2021-02-09T15:01:46+00:00January 20th, 2021|Categories: Education & Health Policy, Publications|Tags: |

One of the most widely accepted reason accounting for the low number of COVID 19 cases observed in the African continent is the youthful nature of the population inhabiting the continent. As shown in Figure 3, the population pyramid for Africa suggests that only about 3.5% of Africans

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