Breaking the mould – Occupational safety hazards faced by children working in brick kilns in Afghanistan

wcms_360353Valéry Ridde, Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui and Fraçois Lemieux, from the School of Public Health, Montreal University, have contributed to this report about child labour in Afghanistan and published by International Labour Organization (ILO), International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) and United Nations International Chidren’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). (more…)

Understanding home delivery in a context of user fee reduction: a cross-sectional mixed methods study in rural Burkina Faso

This paper was published on December 15, 2015 in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. This cross-sectional mixed methods study was conducted in Nouna Health District, Burkina Faso, and is about understanding home delivery in a context of user fee reduction in Africa.

Manuela de AllegriJustin TiendrebéogoOlaf MüllerMaurice YéAlbrecht Jahn and Valéry Ridde all contributed to this work.   (more…)

BMC Health Services Research special issue: User Fee Exemption Policies

BMC Health Services Research on november 6, 2015 a supplement about User fee exemption policies. This supplement was edited Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Valéry Ridde as invited coordinators. Articles in this supplement have been modified from chapters in the book Une politique publique de santé et ses contradictions. La gratuité des soins au Burkina Faso, au Mali et au Niger, J.-P. Olivier de Sardan and V. Ridde (eds), 2014, Karthala, Paris, with the permission of the publisher. (more…)

Launch Cocktail of REALISME Papers

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 We are really pleased to invite you to the
Launch coktail of the

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We invite you to join us for a drink on the launch of this new collection of research documents on community interventions in global health and issues affecting the most vulnerable populations in Canada and elsewhere.

 

The objective of these Papers is therefore to ensure the rapid dissemination of good-quality research and reflection on the Chair’s themes, in open-access, without fees, in French, English and Spanish.

 

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Impact of donor-driven health financing policies on perceived quality of services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review

This presentation realised by Lara Gautier & Valéry Ridde for the 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations – Wednesday 23 – Saturday 26 September 2015, Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy, treats about a scoping review of the impact of donor-driven health financing policies on perceived quality of services in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Access to health care for the ‘worst-off’ in Burkina Faso: 15 years of research

This presentation is an attempt to summarize some of the major evidences that Valéry Ridde and his colleagues have accumulated the past 15 years of research on access to health care for the ‘worst-off’ in Burkina Faso. It was presented at the 9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health.