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District governance and improved maternal, neonatal and child health in South Africa: Pathways of change
(Health systems and reform, 2020)
District-level initiatives to improve maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) generally do not take governance as their primary lens on health system strengthening. This paper is a case study of a district and sub-district ...
Perceptions and experiences of frontline health managers and providers on accountability in a South African health district
(Springer Nature, 2020)
Public primary health care and district health systems play important roles in expanding healthcare access and promoting equity. This study explored and described accountability for this mandate as perceived and experienced ...
Using an equity-based framework for evaluating publicly funded health insurance programmes as an instrument of UHC in Chhattisgarh State, India
(Springer Nature, 2020)
Universal health coverage (UHC) has provided the impetus for the introduction of publicly funded health insurance (PFHI) schemes in the mixed health systems of India and many other low- and middle-income countries. There ...
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 ...
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 ...