Browsing School of Public Health by Author "Schneider, Helen"
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Gender differences in experiences of ART services in South Africa: a mixed methods study
Schneider, Helen; Govender, Veloshnee; Harris, Bronwyn; Cleary, Susan; Moshabela, Mosa; Birch, Stephen (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Objectives: A mixed methods study exploring gender differences in patient profiles and experiences of ART services, along the access dimensions of availability, affordability and acceptability, in two rural and two urban ... -
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 ... -
Globalisation and health inequalities: can a human rights paradigm create space for civil society action?
London, Leslie; Schneider, Helen (Elsevier Ltd, 2012)While neoliberal globalisation is associated with increasing inequalities, global integration has simultaneously strengthened the dissemination of human rights discourse across the world. This paper explores the seeming ... -
The governance of local health systems in the era of Sustainable Development Goals: reflections on collaborative action to address complex health needs in four country contexts
Schneider, Helen; Zulu, Joseph Mumba; Mathias, Kaaren; Cloete, Keith; Hurtig, Anna-Karin (BMJ Global Health, 2019)This analysis reflects on experiences and lessons from four country settings - Zambia, India, Sweden and South Africa - on building collaborations in local health systems in order to respond to complex health needs. These ... -
The governance of national community health worker programmes in low- and middle-income countries: an empirically based framework of governance principles, purposes and tasks
Schneider, Helen (Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018)BACKGROUND: National community health worker (CHW) programmes are increasingly regarded as an integral component of primary healthcare (PHC) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). At the interface of the formal health ... -
A health system framework for perinatal care in South African district hospitals: A Delphi technique
Nkwanyana, Ntombifikile Maureen; Voce, Anna Silvia; Mnqayi, Sthandwa Octavia; Sartorius, Benn; Schneider, Helen (BMC Health Services Research, 2019)The majority of perinatal deaths occurring in low- and middle- income countries are preventable. South Africa is a middle-income country with consistently high perinatal mortality rates and most factors contributing to ... -
Hospital utilization and out of pocket expenditure in public and private sectors under the universal government health insurance scheme in Chhattisgarh State, India: Lessons for universal health coverage
Nandi, Sulakshana; Schneider, Helen; Dixit, Priyanka (Public Library of Science, 2017)Research on impact of publicly financed health insurance has paid relatively little attention to the nature of healthcare provision the schemes engage. India's National Health Insurance Scheme or RSBY was made universal ... -
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 ... -
Improving health outcomes and quality at the subdistrict level: Evaluation of the ‘3 feet model’ in Waterberg District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Schneider, Helen; Mukinda, Fidele Kanyimbu; Cupido, Joseph (South African Medical Association, 2023)Background: There is a gap in understanding of potential roles and actions at the subdistrict level to improve quality of care and health outcomes in South Africa (SA). Objectives. To report on the evaluation of a subdistrict ... -
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
Zulu, Joseph M.; Kinsman, John; Hurtig, Anna-Karin; Michelo, Charles; George, Asha; Schneider, Helen (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- and middle-income countries, their integration process into ... -
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
Zulu, Joseph M.; Kinsman, John; Hurtig, Anna-Karin; Michelo, Charles; George, Asha; Schneider, Helen (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 ... -
Intersectoral collaboration before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Western Cape: implications for future whole-of-society approaches to health and wellbeing
Schneider, Helen; Okeyo, Ida; du Toit, Alheit; Engelbrecht, Beth (Health System Trust, 2022)The profound health, social and economic impacts generated by the COVID-19 pandemic have necessitated collaboration among societal actors in an unprecedented fashion, elevating the status of the health sector and positioning ... -
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 ... -
Leadership and governance of community health worker programmes at scale: a cross case analysis of provincial implementation in South Africa
Schneider, Helen; Nxumalo, Nonhlanhla (BMC, 2017)BACKGROUND: National community health worker (CHW) programmes are returning to favour as an integral part of primary health care systems, often on the back of pre-existing community based initiatives. There are ... -
Lenses and levels: the why, what and how of measuring health system drivers of women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health with a governance focus
George, Asha; LeFevre, Amnesty Elizabeth; Jacobs, Tanya; Kinney, Mary; Buse, Kent; Chopra, Mickey; Daelmans, Bernadette; Haakenstad, Annie; Huicho, Luis; Khosla, Rajat; Rasanathan, Kumanan; Sanders, David; Singh, Neha S; Tiffin, Nicki; Ved, Rajani; Zaidi, Shehla Abbas; Schneider, Helen (BMJ, 2019)Health systems are critical for health outcomes as they underpin intervention coverage and quality, promote users’ rights and intervene on the social determinants of health. Governance is essential for health system ... -
Local dynamics of collaboration for maternal, newborn and child health: A social network analysis of healthcare providers and their managers in Gert Sibande district, South Africa
Mukinda, Fidele Kanyimbu; Van Belle, Sara; Schneider, Helen (Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2021): Accountability for maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) is a collaborative endeavour and documenting collaboration dynamics may be key to understanding variations in the performance of MNCH services. This study ... -
Local level inequalities in the use of hospital-based maternal delivery in rural South Africa
Silal, Sheetal; Penn-Kekana, Loveday; Barnighausen, Till; Schneider, Helen (BioMed Central, 2014)BACKGROUND: There is global concern with geographical and socio-economic inequalities in access to and use of maternal delivery services. Little is known, however, on how local-level socio-economic inequalities are related ... -
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, ... -
Managing local health system interdependencies: Referral and outreach systems for maternal and newborn health in three South African districts
Schneider, Helen; Mianda, Solange; Odendaal, Willem (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023)In complex health systems, referral and outreach systems (ROS) are formal strategies for connecting and managing interdependencies between facilities in service delivery pathways. Well-functioning maternal and newborn ROS ... -
Mapping the existing body of health policy implementation research in lower income settings: what is covered and what are the gaps?
Erasmus, Ermin; Orgill, Marsha; Schneider, Helen; Gilson, Lucy (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014)This article uses 85 peer-reviewed articles published between 1994 and 2009 to characterize and synthesize aspects of the health policy analysis literature focusing on policy implementation in low- and middle-income ...