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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 ...
Measures to strengthen primary health-care systems in low-and middle-income countries
(World Health Organization, 2020)
Primary health care offers a cost–effective route to achieving universal health coverage (UHC). However, primary health-care systems are weak in many low-and middle-income countries and often fail to provide comprehensive, ...
Looking back to look forward: a review of human resources for health governance in South Africa from 1994 to 2018
(Springer Nature, 2020)
While South Africa has had a fairly consistent record of producing national-level strategic plans for human resources for health in the past 25 years, the country continues to face major problems of affordability, availability, ...
Expressions of actor power in implementation: A qualitative case study of a health service intervention in South Africa
(Research Square, 2021)
Implementation frameworks and theories acknowledge the role of power as a factor in the adoption (or
not) of interventions in health services. Despite this recognition, there is a paucity of evidence on how
interventions ...
The multiple lenses on the community health system: Implications for policy, practice and research
(2021-07)
Community health systems (CHSs) have historically been approached from multiple perspectives, with different
purposes and methodological and disciplinary orientations. The terrain is, on the one hand, vast and diverse. ...
The first thousand days within the Western Cape whole of society approach: Lessons for the collaborative governance of intersectoral action for health
(Researchgate, 2020-11)
This report is a case study of the Western Cape’s Whole of Society Approach (WoSA)
through the lens of the First Thousand Days (FTD) of childhood initiative, focusing in
particular on its implementation in Saldanha Bay ...
Research collaboration on community health worker programmes in low-income countries: An analysis of authorship teams and networks
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)
Global health research partnerships, which promote the exchange of ideas,
knowledge and expertise across countries, are considered key to addressing complex challenges facing health systems. Yet, many studies report ...
Strengthening research and practice in community health systems: A research agenda and manifesto
(Researchgate, 2021-07-11)
While there have been increased calls for strengthening community health systems (CHSs), key priorities for this field
have not been fully articulated. This paper seeks to fill this gap, presenting a collaboratively defined ...
Developing a district level supportive supervision framework for community health workers through co-production in South Africa
(BMC, 2021)
One of the key challenges of community health worker (CHW) programmes across the globe is
inadequate supervision. Evidence on effective approaches to CHW supervision is limited and intervention research has
up to now ...
"She is my teacher and if it was not for her I would be dead": Exploration of rural South African community health workers' information, education and communication activities
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Community health workers (CHWs) are important resources in health systems affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. International guidelines on task-shifting recommend that CHWs can provide diverse HIV services, ranging from HIV ...