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External stakeholders and health promoting schools: complexity and practice in South Africa
(Emerald, 2014)
Purpose: This paper examines the role of two higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa, and how their initiatives and collaboration brought about a particular Health Promoting Schools (HPS) program ...
Building capacity to develop an African teaching platform on health workforce development: a collaborative initiative of universities from four sub Saharan countries
(BioMed Central, 2014)
INTRODUCTION: Health systems in many low-income countries remain fragile, and the record of human resource planning and management in Ministries of Health very uneven. Public health training institutions face the dual ...
Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: South African examples of a leadership of sensemaking for primary health care
(Biomed Central, 2014)
BACKGROUND: New forms of leadership are required to bring about the fundamental
health system changes demanded by primary health care (PHC). Using theory about
complex adaptive systems and policy implementation, this ...
Health policy and systems research: needs, challenges and opportunities in South Africa – a university perspective
(Health systems trust, 2013)
The last two decades have seen growing international recognition of the need to strengthen health systems in order to deliver already available, cost-effective health interventions. This chapter describes the parallel ...
Knowledge and awareness of human papillomavirus and intention with regard to human papillomavirus vaccine uptake by female tertiary students in the Eastern Cape province
(MedPharm, 2013)
In 2008, two human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, Cervarix and Gardasil, were licensed for use in South Africa. Initial models
showed that vaccination could lead to an approximate 70% decline in cervical cancer cases. ...
Assessment of capacity for health policy and systems research and analysis in seven African universities: results from the CHEPSAA project
(Oxford University Press, 2014)
The importance of health policy and systems research and analysis (HPSR+A) is widely recognized. Universities are central to strengthening and sustaining the
HPSR+A capacity as they teach the next generation of ...
Perceptions of body size and its association with HIV/AIDS
(MedPharm Publications, 2011)
OBJECTIVE: To explore the perception among black South African women that people who are thin are infected with HIV or have AIDS.
SETTING: Khayelitsha, an urban township in Cape Town.
SUBJECTS: 513 women aged 18-65 ...
Factors influencing the job performance of nurses and midwives in postpartum units in two district hospitals in Rwanda
(UNISA Press, 2013)
The performance of nurses and midwives in postpartum units can influence maternal health as
well as infant survival. This study assessed factors influencing the performance of nurses and
midwives working in the postpartum ...
Action learning for health system governance: the reward and challenge of co-production
(Oxford University Press, 2014-08-26)
Health policy and systems research (HPSR) is centrally concerned with people, their relationships and the actions and practices they can implement towards better health systems. These concerns suggest that HPS researchers ...
Practice and power: a review and interpretive synthesis focused on the exercise of discretionary power in policy implementation by front line providers and managers
(Oxford University Press, 2014)
Tackling the implementation gap is a health policy concern in low- and middleincome
countries (LMICs). Limited attention has so far been paid to the influence of power relations over this gap. This article presents, ...