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Is the Alma Ata vision of comprehensive primary health care viable? Findings from an international project
(Co-Action Publishing, 2014)
BACKGROUND: The 4-year (2007 2011) Revitalizing Health for All international research program (http://www.
globalhealthequity.ca/projects/proj_revitalizing/index.shtml) supported 20 research teams located in 15 ...
Baseline assessment of WHO's target for both availability and affordability of essential medicines to treat non-communicable diseases
(Public Library of Science, 2017)
Background: WHO has set a voluntary target of 80% availability of affordable essential medicines, including generics, to treat major non-communicable diseases (NCDs), in the public and private sectors of countries by 2025. ...
Book Review: Textbook of Global Health by A-E. Birn, Y. Pillay and T.H. Holtz
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)
Coinciding with a renewed focus on health
needs and disease in the global south, the
Millennium Development Goal era saw the
emergence and widespread use of the term
‘global health’. The term has been associated
with ...
Assessment of the association between plant‑based dietary exposures and cardiovascular disease risk profile in Sub‑Saharan Africa: A systematic review
(BMC, 2022)
Studies have investigated dietary attributes associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Africa.
However, there has been no effort to critically assess the existing evidence. This systematic review examined ...
Global core indicators for measuring WHO’s paediatric quality‑of‑care standards in health facilities: Development and expert consensus
(BMC, 2022)
There are currently no global recommendations on a parsimonious and robust set of indicators that
can be measured routinely or periodically to monitor quality of hospital care for children and young adolescents. We
describe ...
Priority indicators for adolescent health measurement – recommendations from the Global action for Measurement of Adolescent health (GAMA) advisory group
(Elsevier, 2022)
This article describes the selection of priority indicators for adolescent (10e19 years)
health measurement proposed by the Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent health advi-
sory group and partners, building on ...
Household access to non-communicable disease medicines during universal health care roll-out in Kenya: A time series analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2022)
This study aims to describe trends and estimate impact of county-level universal health coverage
expansion in Kenya on household availability of non-communicable disease medicines,
medicine obtainment at public hospitals ...
Monitoring healthcare improvement for mothers and newborns: A quantitative review of WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA standards using every mother every mewborn assessment tools
(Frontiers Media, 2022)
Assessment tools with the ability to capture
WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA standard quality-of-care measures are needed.
This study aimed to assess the ability of Every Mother Every Newborn
(EMEN) tools to capture WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA ...
The role of emergent champions in policy implementation for decentralised drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)
Champions are recognised as important to driving
organisational change in healthcare quality improvement
initiatives in high-income settings. In low-income and
middle-income countries with a high disease burden
and ...
The development of a policy brief on physical activity and health in Africa for children and adolescents with disabilities: COVID-19 and beyond
(AOSIS OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2023)
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. To curtail the spread of the virus, governments implemented national lockdowns, restricting ...