Scaling up primary health services for improving reproductive, maternal, and child health: a multisectoral collaboration in the conflict setting of Afghanistan

Jai K Das; Nadia Akseer; Shafiq Mirzazada; Zahra Peera; Omarwalid Noorzada; Corinne E Armstrong; Kashif Mukhtar; Ahmed Jan Naeem; Zulfiqar A Bhutta

doi:10.1136/bmj.k4986

Scaling up primary health services for improving reproductive, maternal, and child health: a multisectoral collaboration in the conflict setting of Afghanistan

BMJ. 2018 Dec 7:363:k4986. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4986.

Authors

Jai K Das¹, Nadia Akseer^{2

3}, Shafiq Mirzazada⁴, Zahra Peera¹, Omarwalid Noorzada², Corinne E Armstrong⁵, Kashif Mukhtar¹, Ahmed Jan Naeem⁶, Zulfiqar A Bhutta^{7

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
² Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
³ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada.
⁴ Aga Khan University, Kabul, Afghanistan.
⁵ Independent, London, UK.
⁶ Ministry of Health, Government of Afghanistan.
⁷ Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan zulfiqar.bhutta@sickkids.ca.

Abstract

Jai Das and colleagues present an innovative and evolutionary model of multistakeholder and multisectoral collaboration in scaling up coverage of health services in Afghanistan

MeSH terms

Adult
Afghanistan / epidemiology
Age Distribution
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Health Services Accessibility / standards*
Healthcare Disparities / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
International Cooperation
Male
Maternal-Child Health Services / standards*
Maternal-Child Health Services / statistics & numerical data
National Health Programs / economics
National Health Programs / legislation & jurisprudence
National Health Programs / organization & administration*
Poverty
Primary Health Care / standards*
Residence Characteristics
Workforce / statistics & numerical data