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The supervisory relationships of community health workers in primary health care: social network analysis of ward-based outreach teams in Ngaka Modiri Molema District, South Africa
(BMJ Global Health, 2019)
Introduction Supportive supervision remains a key challenge to the sustainability of community health worker (CHW) programmes globally. The aim of the study was to identify critical actors and patterns of relationships in ...
Implementation of maternal and perinatal death reviews: A scoping review protocol
(BMJ Open, 2019)
The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research will inform the development
of a theory-based conceptual framework for MPDSR implementation. The methodology for the scoping review will be guided by an adapted Arksey ...
Paramedics, poetry, and film: Health policy and systems research at the intersection of theory, art, and practice
(Human Resources for Health, 2019)
Violence is a public health issue. It is the consequence of a complex set of interacting political, social, and economic factors firmly rooted in past and current injustice. South Africa remains one of the most unequal ...
Health systems for all in the SDG era: Key reflections based on the Liverpool statement for the fifth global symposium on health systems research
(Health Policy and Planning, 2019)
The year 2018 marked anniversaries of several significant milestones in public health: the birth of the UK National Health Service, the Alma Ata declaration and the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. The Fifth ...
A forgotten group during humanitarian crises: a systematic review of sexual and reproductive health interventions for young people including adolescents in humanitarian settings
(Conflict and Health, 2019)
Background: Young people including adolescents face barriers to healthcare and increased risk of poor sexual
and reproductive health (SRH), which are exacerbated in humanitarian settings. Our systematic review assessed
the ...
Integrating community health assistant-driven sexual and reproductive health services in the community health system in Nyimba district in Zambia: Mapping key actors, points of integration, and conditions shaping the process
(Reproductive Health, 2019)
Introduction: Although large scale public sector community health worker programs have been key in providing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in low- A nd middle-income countries, their integration process ...
"Half a loaf is better than nothing": The risks and resilience of day labourers in Cape Town
(Social Work (South Africa), 2019)
According to Worthington and Scherer (2004), resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or other significant sources of stress. The concept of resilience draws upon previous ...
“Righting the wrongs”: Addressing human rights and gender equality through research since Cairo
(Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2019)
The Programme of Action (PoA) adopted in Cairo at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994 called for strengthen- ing of the evidence base to guide policies and pro- gramming to deliver on ...
A forgotten group during humanitarian crises: A systematic review of sexual and reproductive health interventions for young people including adolescents in humanitarian settings
(Conflict and Health, 2019)
Background: Young people including adolescents face barriers to healthcare and increased risk of poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH), which are exacerbated in humanitarian settings. Our systematic review assessed the ...
Family functioning and satisfaction: A comparative study between hookah users and non-users
(African journal of primary health care & family medicine, 2019)
BACKGROUND: Although there has been an exponential growth in hookah use on a global scale, research within the context of South Africa is very limited. While hookah use is known internationally to be a health and addiction ...