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Development and validation of a structured observation scale to measure responsiveness of physicians in rural Bangladesh
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Responsiveness of physicians is the social actions that physicians do to meet the legitimate expectations
of service seekers. Since there is no such scale, this study aimed at developing one for measuring ...
Leadership and the functioning of maternal health services in two rural district hospitals in South Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2018)
Maternal mortality remains high in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, despite over 90% of pregnant
women utilizing maternal health services. A recent survey showed wide variation in performance
among districts in the ...
A comparative evaluation of PDQ-Evidence
(BioMed Central, 2018)
BACKGROUND: A strategy for minimising the time and obstacles to accessing systematic reviews of health system
evidence is to collect them in a freely available database and make them easy to find through a simple ...
Health system barriers to implementation of collaborative TB and HIV activities including prevention of mother to child transmission in South Africa
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
In South Africa, the control of TB and HIV co-infection remains a major challenge despite the
availability of international and national guidelines for integration of TB and HIV services. This study
was undertaken in ...
Exploring how different modes of governance act across health system levels to influence primary healthcare facility managers' use of information in decisionmaking: experience from Cape Town, South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Governance, which includes decision-making at all levels of the health system, and information have
been identified as key, interacting levers of health system strengthening. However there is an extensive ...
Practicing governance towards equity in health systems: LMIC perspectives and experience
(BioMed Central, 2017)
The unifying theme of the papers in this series is a concern for understanding the everyday practice of governance
in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) health systems. Rather than seeing governance as a normative ...
How institutional forces, ideas and actors shaped population health planning in Australian regional primary health care organisations
(BioMed Central, 2018)
BACKGROUND: Worldwide, there are competing norms driving health system changes and reorganisation. One such
norm is that of health systems’ responsibilities for population health as distinct from a focus on clinical ...
Building back from the ground up: The vital role of communities
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)
Globally the COVID-19 pandemic has destabilised health systems and communities.
Governments in low- and middle-income
countries (LMICs) followed the approaches
adopted by the Global North and advocated
by international ...
The household economic burden of non-communicable diseases in 18 countries
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death globally. In 2014, the United Nations committed to reducing premature mortality from NCDs, including by reducing the burden of healthcare costs. Since 2014, ...
Drug-resistant tuberculosis patient care journeys in South Africa: A pilot study using routine laboratory data
(International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), 2020)
hirteen districts in Eastern Cape (EC), KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and Western Cape (WC) Provinces, South Africa. OBJECTIVE: To pilot a methodology for describing and visualising healthcare journeys among drug-resistant tuberculosis ...