https://www.capacityplus.org/taxonomy/term/187/all en https://www.capacityplus.org/faith-based-organizations-serving-and-uniting-health-sector <p><img alt="Friends Kaimosi Hospital" src="/sites/intrah.civicactions.net/files/friends%20hospital.jpg" align="left" height="147" hspace="10" width="220" />Recently on the <a href="http://www.hifa2015.org/">HIFA2015</a> listserv there has been discussion on the role of mission and <a href="http://www.capacityplus.org/faith-based-organizations">faith-based</a> health care facilities in the developing world. Statistics vary from country to country, and even region to region within a country, but the most common statistic for countries in sub-Saharan Africa is that mission and faith-based health facilities provide approximately 40-70% of health care.<br /><strong><br />Rural and isolated areas</strong><br />As has been noted, these mission and faith-based health facilities have a long history of providing services in the most rural and isolated parts of the countries—places where government health care personnel often aren’t.</p> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-authoring-information"><div class="field field-type-text field-field-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Author&#039;s name:&nbsp;</div> Erika Pearl </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-date field-field-publication-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Publication Date:&nbsp;</div> <span class="date-display-single">November 2010</span> </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <p><a href="https://www.capacityplus.org/faith-based-organizations-serving-and-uniting-health-sector" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://www.capacityplus.org/faith-based-organizations-serving-and-uniting-health-sector#comments Faith-Based Organizations Health Systems Strenghthening Health Workers Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:05:40 +0000 jennifer 266 at https://www.capacityplus.org