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• Task-shifting and the Alma-Ata vision
  Task-shifting from doctors to nurses and from health professionals to lay providers may contribute to achieving the Alma-Ata vision of primary health care for all. This is among the conclusions of the second in an eight paper Series in the Alma-Ata Special Issue of The Lancet by SUPPORT researchers from institutions in the UK, South Africa, Norway, Canada, Chile and Argentina. Read more.
  
• Randomised Controlled Trial Management Workshop hosted by the SUPPORT Collaboration for Southern African Researchers, 16 - 17 October 2008 (pdf 68 kb)
• How is research knowledge translated into policies?  SUPPORT researchers report findings from studies of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia treatment and malaria control in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. (Available in English (pdf format, 259 kb) and Portuguese (pdf 178 kb))
• SUPPORT researcher Fernando Althabe and colleagues found that a multifaceted behavioral intervention increased the prophylactic use of oxytocin during the third stage of labor and reduced the use of episiotomy. Corresponding author’s e-mail address: falthabe@gmail.com.  Althabe F, Buekens P, Bergel E, Belizan JM, Campbell MK, Moss N, Hartwell T, Wright LL. A Behavioral Intervention to Improve Obstetrical Care. N Engl J Med 358:1929-1940  Abstract  Full Text   PDF
• SUPPORT researchers Fernando Althabe, Eduardo Bergel, María Luisa Cafferata, and Luz Gibbons found that some interventions like interactive workshops, reminders, educational outreaches, audit and feedback, mass-media and patient-mediated interventions can improve maternal and child health care in low- and middle-income countries, but most often these are small-to-moderate effects. Corresponding author’s e-mail address: falthabe@gmail.com. Free access to the Full Text HTML | Full Text PDF (150 KB) | Supplementary material.
• Executive summary of year 1’s report: October 2006 to September 2007. Read more. (pdf 92 kb)
• SUPPORT researchers Andy Oxman, John Lavis and Atle Fretheim found that systematic reviews are rarely used for developing WHO recommendations. Read more. (pdf 90 kb)