Health
The right to health in Uganda – addressing the tension between duty bearers and rights holders to acheive equitable health
This scenario highlights the health inequities in Uganda’s healthcare system. It brings out the contention and tension between claim holders (claimants of rights) and duty bearers (guarantors of rights) in a resource-constrained reality. It is intended to help learners appreciate how a potential tension may appear or be conceptualized by both sides. It is also…
Region Västerbotten, Umeå Municipality and Kisumu County, Kenya
Project: Partnership and Governance for Health and Resilience in relation to Climate Change and Environment in Kenyan Counties alongside Lake Victoria The project will establish a partnership between The County of Västerbotten and Kenyan counties in the Lake Victoria Basin area. The partnership will be governed by Center for Rural Medicine/Region Västerbotten, Umeå Municipality and…
Region Västerbotten and Homa Bay, Kenya
Project: Governance for youth health in Homa Bay County Homa Bay County and Region Västerbotten via Centre for rural medicine are finalizing their project on leadership and governance for the provision of equitable health care. The main objective of this project was to strengthen the structures and processes for a high-quality functional management, collaboration, and…
Region Stockholm and Jinja City, Uganda
Child Thrive: Neonatology, Child Rights, Emergency Care & Child Neurology (4 projects) Region Stockholm, through Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital (ALB), and Jinja City in Uganda, together with Non-Governmental Organisations in both countries, have established a partnership driving four interconnected projects. These projects share the joint objective of improving the quality of care for children, with…
Region Östergötland and Uasin Gishu, Kenya
Developing cancer health care through institutional collaboration This project is the result of the inception phase project “Partnership for sustainable and Equitable health: Östergötland and Uasin Gishu”, dnr 2019-0031. The project aims to address the problems associated with unequal cancer care and low institutional capacity. Several causes to the main problem were identified: deficiencies regarding…
Åmål kommun – Dunhuang
The work with digital concepts for an increased safety, service and participation for elderly, have been an envisaged area of cooperation for a long time between the Municipality of Åmål and the City of Dunhuang. The cities face similar challenges where the proportion of elderly increases at the same time as the aging population grows.…
Region Västerbotten and Homa Bay, Kenya
Governance in providing accessible, affordable, equitable and quality health care service to the citizens The main objective is to establish structures and processes for a high-quality functional management, collaboration and coordination function/unit for equitable health care in Homa Bay County. Regarding the Centre for Rural Medicine (CRM) which is a department within The County Council…
Borlänge and Chisinau, Moldova
Project: Increase the competence of the teachers in the areas of Autism & ADHD Internationally, around 1 in 68 children are now diagnosed an autism spectrum. In Chisinau, Moldova, there 150 children with autism registered at the municipality until 2016. Many of them have ADHD at the same time. Those children enjoy the equal right…
Västerbotten County and Yogakarta City
In many parts of the world infectious diseases are severely under-reported, sometimes because of lack of diagnostic capacity and statistics, but sometimes as a conscious decision to protect economic and political interests. This approach is not consistent with good democracy and threaten especially those people already struggling to defend themselves because of poverty or lack…
