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levels. Community services are located at the village level and draw upon members of the community. The primary level includes Primary Health Care Units and Primary Health Care Centers which provide Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS). The BPHS covers preventive, curative, health promotion and managerial activities. The BPHS is financed by the government and contributions from MDTF and various
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dropped from 27 to 26% in 2006 and 2010 respectively. The ANC coverage is very low at 40.3% women attending first visit and 17% women who completed the four recommended visit. Most of the maternal deaths occur during labor, delivery and the immediate postpartum period. Most of these deaths would have
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The national ministry of health (MoH) have a decentralized health services in line with the interim constitution of South Sudan (2005) and local government act (2009). The decentralized organization structure has four levels: Central, state, county and the community. The national ministry of health
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is 55 years. In 2004, there were only three surgeons serving southern Sudan, with three proper hospitals, and in some areas there was just one doctor for every 500,000 people. A child born in South Sudan has a 25% chance of dying before their 5th birthday. The major causes of the mortality include
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has a health system structured with three tiers: Primary Health Care Units (PHCU), Primary Health Care Centers (PHCC) and hospitals (which exist as either state, county, police or military). The structures in health services delivery is in the order of community, primary, secondary and tertiary
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calculated for 195 countries from 1990 to 2016 and defined for each birth cohort as the expected years lived from age 20 to 64 years and adjusted for educational attainment, learning or education quality, and functional health status was published by
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in September 2018. South Sudan had the second lowest level of expected human capital countries with 2 health, education, and learning-adjusted expected years lived between age 20 and 64 years. This was an improvement over 1990 when its score was 1.
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in the country and the ratio was 1 per 39,088 population. However, there is variation in the figures; other sources suggested the ratio of midwives as 1:125,000 women.
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has huge challenges in delivering health care to the population. The challenges include: crippled health infrastructures, nearly collapsed
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occurred after several years of food insecurity and affected an estimated five million people, just under half the national population.
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by end of 2015. The health system needs a major resuscitation, in addition to supporting and developing health training institutions.
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provides policy guidance, leadership, funding, monitoring and evaluation. The state level oversees the implementation of
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The health situation South Sudan is far from ideal. More than 50% of the population live below the
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coverage of only 26%. The proportion of children who received all recommended
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Southern Sudan has unique combination of worst diseases in the world
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The transitional constitution of the Republic of South Sudan, 2011
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is the highest in the world at 2,053.90 per 100,000 live births (
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Conference plans rebuilding of South Sudan's health service
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South Sudan is acknowledged to have some of the worst
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Index

Healthcare in South Sudan
South Sudan
public health
health professionals
MDGs
health indicators
human capital
The Lancet
confusing or unclear
clarify the section
the talk page
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South Sudan
NGO
health care
encyclopedic tone
guide to writing better articles
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poverty line
literacy rate
infant mortality
under five mortality rate
maternal mortality
Maternal Mortality Ratio
Antenatal care
infant mortality rate
life expectancy
pneumonia
malaria
malnutrition

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