Publications catalog: Health
Health Systems Strengthening (HSS)
This brochure outlines CRS Health System Strengthening (HSS) approaches and strategies to achieve national and international health goals.
Innovations in Health Care
“Innovations” bulletins highlight CRS projects and programs that are successful because of their inventive and creative approach.
Promising Practices for Community Engagement in Tuberculosis Activities
This publication highlights promising practices in increasing case detection and treatment rates as documented in the Maguindanao TB Control Project. It chronicles how community groups have contributed to addressing the problem of TB.
TB and HIV
Tuberculosis and HIV are combining to create what many fear is a global health catastrophe. This short booklet highlights some of the ways in which Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is addressing co-infection around the world.
We Control Malaria
A participatory methodology to help community groups learn more about malaria, its prevention, and treatment and to make a community plan to control the disease.
Maguindanao Tuberculosis Control Project
This study uncovered key disparities in TB services for men and women, providing a basis for designing more culturally appropriate and gender-sensitive TB health programs.
Assessment of Educational and Health Needs for Children and Youth with Disabilities Identified as Affected by Agent Orange/Dioxin
A report on the needs for education and health care of Vietnamese children and youths who were harmed by Agent Orange/dioxin.
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- Tuberculosis control in the Philippines
This study uncovered key disparities in TB services for men and women, providing a basis for designing more culturally appropriate and gender-sensitive TB health programs.
Agent Orange/Dioxin
A report on the needs for education and health care of Vietnamese children and youths who were harmed by Agent Orange/dioxin.
Health Systems Strengthening Brochure
This brochure outlines CRS Health System Strengthening (HSS) approaches and strategies to achieve national and international health goals.
News
- Taliban Claim Deadly Attack on Shiites in Pakistan
3 Sep 2010, 6:15 pmThe explosion, two days after another attack, killed at least 40 people, as militants intensify their campaign to destabilize the Pakistani government.
- Video of Quetta Attack From Pakistani Television
3 Sep 2010, 6:08 pmPakistani coverage of a deadly attack on a Shiite protest in the city of Quetta and clashes in the aftermath between angry mourners and local police.
- The Saturday Profile: At First She Didn’t Succeed, but She Tried and Tried Again (960 Times)
3 Sep 2010, 5:48 pmCha Sa-soon, 69, has become a national symbol for perseverance in South Korea — and she can legally hit the road.