Browsing by Author "Lehmann, Uta"
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Action learning for health system governance: the reward and challenge of co-production
Lehmann, Uta; Gilson, Lucy (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 ... -
Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: South African examples of a leadership of sensemaking for primary health care
Gilson, Lucy; Elloker, Soraya; Olckers, Patti; Lehmann, Uta (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 ... -
Analysis of human resources for health strategies and policies in 5 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, in response to GFATM AND Pepfar-funded HIV-activities
Cailhol, Johann; Craveiro, Isabel; Mathole, Thubelihle; Parsons, Ann Neo; Lehmann, Uta; Sanders, David; Madede, Tavares; Makoa, Elsie; Van Leemput, Luc; Biesma, Regien; Brugha, Ruairi; Chilundo, Baltazar; Dussault, Gilles; Van Damme, Wim (BioMed Central -The Open Access Publisher, 2013)BACKGROUND: Global Health Initiatives (GHIs), aiming at reducing the impact of specific diseases such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), have flourished since 2000. Amongst these, PEPFAR and GFATM have provided ... -
Building capacity to develop an African teaching platform on health workforce development: a collaborative initiative of universities from four sub Saharan countries
Amde, Woldekidan Kifle; Sanders, David; Lehmann, Uta (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 ... -
Emerging roles and competencies of district and sub-district pharmacists: a case study from Cape Town
Bradley, Hazel A.; Lehmann, Uta; Butler, Nadine (BioMed Central, 2015)District and sub-district pharmacist positions were created during health sector reform in South Africa. High prevalence of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and increasing chronic non-communicable diseases have drawn attention ... -
Evidence of past and current collaborations between traditional health practitioners and biomedical health practitioners: A scoping review protocol
Jama, Ngcwalisa Amanda; Nyembezi, Anam; Lehmann, Uta (BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP, 2021)Healthcare seekers around the globe use more than one healthcare system, with most using the traditional and the Western approaches concurrently. To date, little collaboration between the two systems has taken place ... -
Exploring multiple job holding practices of academics in public health training institutions from three sub-Saharan Africa countries: drivers, impact, and regulation
Amde, Woldekidan Kifle; Sanders, David; Chilundo, Baltazar; Rugigana, Etienne; Mariam, Damen Haile; Lehmann, Uta (Taylor & Francis, 2018)BACKGROUND: The paper examines external multiple job holding practices in public health training institutions based in prominent public universities in three sub-Saharan Africa countries (Rwanda, Ethiopia, Mozambique). ... -
The first thousand days within the Western Cape whole of society approach: Lessons for the collaborative governance of intersectoral action for health
Okeyo, Ida; Lehmann, Uta; Schneider, Helen (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 ... -
The global pendulum swing towards community health workers in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review of trends, geographical distribution and programmatic orientations, 2005 to 2014
Schneider, Helen; Okello, Dickson; Lehmann, Uta (BioMed Central, 2016)BACKGROUND: There has been a substantial increase in publications and interest in community health workers (CHWs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) over the last years. This paper examines the growth, geographical ... -
The impact of differing frames on early stages of intersectoral collaboration: The case of the first 1000 days initiative in the Western Cape Province
Okeyo, Ida L.A.; Lehmann, Uta; Schneider, Helen (Springer Nature, 2020)While intersectoral collaboration is considered valuable and important for achieving health outcomes, there are few examples of successes. The literature on intersectoral collaboration suggests that success relies on a ... -
Lay health workers and HIV programmes: Implications for health systems
Schneider, Helen; Lehmann, Uta (Routledge, 2010)One of the consequences of massive investment in antiretroviral access and other AIDS programmes has been the rapid emergence of large numbers of lay workers in the health systems of developing countries. In South ... -
Looking back to look forward: a review of human resources for health governance in South Africa from 1994 to 2018
van Ryneveld, Manya; Schneider, Helen; Lehmann, Uta (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, ... -
Mapping and analysing community health worker programmes in the Eastern Mediterranean region
Lehmann, Uta; Gedik, Gulin; Jalal, Arooj (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2024)Background: Community health worker (CHW) programmes are increasingly being recognized as an important strategy that can help to strengthen comprehensive primary health care (PHC), as the foundation of work towards achieving ... -
Organizational change and everyday health system resilience: Lessons from Cape Town, South Africa
Gilson, Lucy L.; Lehmann, Uta; Ellokor, Soraya (Elsevier, 2020)This paper reports a study from Cape Town, South Africa, that tested an existing framework of everyday health system resilience (EHSR) in examining how a local health system responded to the chronic stress of large-scale ... -
Policy adoption and the implementation woes of the intersectoral first 1000 days of childhood initiative, in the Western Cape province of South Africa
Okeyo, Ida; Lehmann, Uta; Schneider, Helen (Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2021)There is a growing interest in implementing intersectoral approaches to address social determinants especially within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) era. However, there is limited research that uses policy analysis ... -
Practicing governance towards equity in health systems: LMIC perspectives and experience
Gilson, Lucy; Lehmann, Uta; Schneider, Helen (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 ... -
Practicing governance towards equity in health systems: LMIC perspectives and experience
Gilson, Lucy; Lehmann, Uta; Schneider, Helen (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 ... -
Prioritizing people and rapid learning in times of crisis: A virtual learning initiative to support health workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Engelbrecht, Beth; Gilson, Lucy; Lehmann, Uta (Wiley, 2021)The Western Cape province was the early epicentre of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in South Africa and on the African continent. In this short article we report on an initiative set up within the provincial ... -
Strategic leadership capacity building for Sub-Saharan African health systems and public health governance: a multi-country assessment of essential competencies and optimal design for a Pan African DrPH
Agyepong, Irene Akua; Lehmann, Uta; Rutembemberwa, Elizeus; Babich, Suzanne M.; Frimpong, Edith; Kwamie, Aku; Olivier, Jill; Teddy, Gina; Hwabamungu, Boroto; Gilson, Lucy (Oxford University Press, 2018)Leadership capacity needs development and nurturing at all levels for strong health systems governance and improved outcomes. The Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) is a professional, interdisciplinary terminal degree focused ... -
Strengthening human resources for health systems resilience to care for mothers and children
Lehmann, Uta (Biomed Central, 2015)What do we need to do better to ensure better health, and less preventable morbidity and mortality among mothers, babies and young children? This is the question asked by the papers of this special edition. In their ...