Search
Now showing items 1-7 of 7
“If donors woke up tomorrow and said we can't fund you, what would we do?” A health system dynamics analysis of implementation of PMTCT option B+ in Uganda.
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: In October 2012 Uganda extended its prevention of mother to child HIV transmission (PMTCT) policy
to Option B+, providing lifelong antiretroviral treatment for HIV positive pregnant and breastfeeding women. ...
Practicing governance towards equity in health systems: LMIC perspectives and experience
(BMC, 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 ...
The importance of gender analysis in research for health systems strengthening
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
This editorial discusses a collection of papers examining gender across a range of health policy and
systems contexts, from access to services, governance, health financing, and human resources for
health. The papers ...
A participatory action research approach to strengthening health managers’ capacity at district level in Eastern Uganda
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Many approaches to improving health managers’ capacity in poor countries, particularly those pursued
by external agencies, employ non-participatory approaches and often seek to circumvent (rather than ...
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 ...
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 ...