Health systems and skin diseases: the case of Ethiopia

Health system and its challenges

1. INTRODUCTION: DERMATOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (Aldo Morrone)

2. THE ETHIO-ITALIAN COOPERATION PROGRAMME WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE HEALTH SECTOR (Andrea Senatori)

3. THE ETHIOPIAN HEALTH SECTOR AND THE ITALIAN CONTRIBUTION TO HSDP (Augusto Cosulich, Vincenzo Racalbuto)

4. BUILDING THE NATIONAL HEALTH MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (HMIS) INETHIOPIA: TOWARDS EVIDENCE- BASED DECISION MAKING (Sandro Accorsi, Nejmudin Kedir)

5. HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH (HRH): A CRUCIAL ELEMENT FOR ACHIEVING INTERNATIONAL MDGs. NATURE OF THE CRISIS INETHIOPIA. (Carlo Resti, Yohannes Tadesse)

6. USING INDICATORS TO MEASURE THE PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR INETHIOPIA(Andrea Gardellin, Abraham Gebre Giorgis)

7. HIV AND SKIN: AN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (O.R.) IN TIGRAY REGION,ETHIOPIA(Tigray Regional Health Bureau; T.M.A., Tigray Medical Association; IISMAS onlus – International Institute of Social, Medical and Science; S. Gallicano Dermatological Institute IRCCS -Rome; Italian Cooperation – HSDP)

8. OPERATIONAL RESEARCH IN TIGRAY REGION: REPORT OF THE FIRST YEAR OF ACTIVITIES 2005-2006 (Margherita Terranova, Valeska Padovese, Aldo Morrone)

PART TWO

Infectious and non-infectious diseases

1. INTRODUCTION: HEALTH SYSTEMS AND SKIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES. THE CASE OFETHIOPIA(Aldo Morrone, Gebreab Barnabas)

2. PATTERN OF SKIN DISEASES AT THE FIRST DERMATOLOGICAL HOSPITAL IN TIGRAY, ETHIOPIA (Aldo Morrone, Valeska Padovese, Margherita Terranova, Silvana Trincone, Giuseppe Fontanarosa, Gebreab Barnabas)

3. DERMATOSES DUE TO BACTERIA (Aldo Morrone, Valeska Padovese, Roberta Calcaterra, Gennaro Franco)

4. DERMATOSES DUE TO VIRUSES (Aldo Morrone, Margherita Terranova )

5. SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS (Aldo Morrone, Luigi Toma)

6. TROPICAL TREPONEMATOSES (Aldo Morrone, Gennaro Franco)

7. TROPICAL DEEP FUNGAL INFECTIONS (Aldo Morrone, Dagnachew Shibeshi)

8. DERMATOSES CAUSED BY ARTHROPODS (Aldo Morrone, Valeska Padovese, Margherita Terranova)

9. PROTOZOAN DERMATOSES (Aldo Morrone, Margherita Terranova, Valeska Padovese)

10. HELMINTHIC DERMATOSES (Aldo Morrone, Ugo Fornari)

11. DERMATOSES DUE TO MALNUTRITION (Aldo Morrone, Tesfalem Hagos, Roberta Calcaterra, Paola Scardella)

12. ETHNODERMATOLOGY (Aldo Morrone, Gennaro Franco)

13. EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES (Aldo Morrone, Luigi Toma)

14. NEGLECTED DISEASES (Aldo Morrone, Genet Fitwi, Emma Pizzini, Luigi Toma)

15. HEALTH SYSTEMS AND SKIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES (Emma Pizzini, Ottavio Latini, Aldo Morrone)

16. ECONOMIC ASSESSMENTS AND TROPICAL DISEASES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (Aldo Morrone, Lorenzo Nosotti, Emma Pizzini, Ottavio Latini)