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While significant gains in global health have been made over the past several decades, there is still much work to be done. Family planning and reproductive health services are of particular importance. According to the World Health Organization’s Fact Sheet No. 351, 222 million women in developing countries lack access to desired family planning services….
The National HIV Prevention Program Monitoring and Evaluation (NHM&E) Service Center is the primary point of contact for NHM&E-related technical assistance for all Center for Disease Control (CDC)-funded HIV prevention grantees, including health departments and community-based organizations. In partnership with CACI International, Inc., JSI provides NHM&E technical assistance and facilitates monitoring and evaluation guidance in…
‘Diversion’ is an attempt to divert, or channel out, youthful offenders from the juvenile justice system,’ as articulated by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Bynum and Thompson, 1996). Within the State of New Hampshire, there are approximately seventeen certified diversion programs. However, diversion practices vary in terms of the initial juvenile…
Pakistan’s progress in reducing maternal and newborn child mortality has been slow. As Pakistan’s population increases by more than 3 million people every year, population growth imposes a tremendous burden on the health infrastructure and the nation’s scarce resources. As such, Pakistan was not able to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for maternal and…
The Better Immunization Data (BID) Initiative is a bold effort to increase immunization coverage through country-owned, country-led politics, practices, and information system products that enable evidence-based decision-making. While the initial information system focus is on improving immunization service delivery and data capture, the project aims to create a technology platform that integrates seamlessly with existing…
In Massachusetts, Black, non-Hispanic women are more likely to receive a late-stage cervical cancer diagnosis and have higher cervical cancer mortality rates despite their higher rates of screening compared with women of other ethnic or racial groups. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has established the goal of reducing “the proportion of Black, non-Hispanic women…
Trachoma, an infectious eye disease, is the world's leading cause of preventable blindness. WHO estimates that trachoma affects about 84 million people and about 8 million of them are visually impaired as a result of trachoma infection, with children and women disproportionately affected. The SAFE strategy, a comprehensive public health approach to trachoma control includes…
The Quality and Patient Safety Division (QPSD) at the Board of Medicine oversees institutional systems of quality assurance, risk management, peer review, utilization review and credentialing–known collectively as a Patient Care Assessment (PCA) Program. The QPSD's function is unique among the nation's state licensing boards: It is not punitive or adversarial in nature; it does…
Recent changes in state and federal funding for public health services, combined with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, have resulted in public health and health care systems undergoing tremendous change. State sexually transmitted disease (STD) programs, family planning agencies, and public health labs need assistance to keep up with the changes, while maintaining…
The Innovations for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health initiative was a multi-year grant, led by Concern Worldwide, to find and test ambitious new ideas with the potential to overcome barriers to accessing maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) services and significantly improve delivery of these services. JSI provided technical oversight and support for research, monitoring…
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