Browsing School of Public Health by Author "Sanders, David"
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Addressing social determinants of health in South Africa: the journey continues
Scott, Vera; Schaay, Nikki; Schneider, Helen; Sanders, David (Health Systems Trust (HST), 2017)With the recent change from the Millennium Development Goals to the 17 new Sustainable Development Goals, the focus of the global development agenda is expanding: there is attention on a broader set of social determinants ... -
Addressing the tensions and complexities involved in commissioning and undertaking implementation research in low- and middle-income countries
Doherty, Tanya; Lewin, Simon; Kinney, Mary; Sanders, David; Mathews, Cathy; Daviaud, Emmanuelle; Goga, Ameena; Bhana, Arvin; Besada, Donela; Vanleeuw, Lieve; Loveday, Marian; Odendaal, Willem; Leon, Natalie (BMJ, 2018)Rapid scale-up of new policies and guidelines, in the context of weak health systems in low/middle-income countries (LMIC), has led to greater interest and funding for implementation research. Implementation research ... -
Advancing the agenda on noncommunicable diseases: prevention and management at community level
Puoane, Thandi; Egbujie, Bonaventure Amandi; Sanders, David; Tsolekile, Lungiswa Primrose; Lewy, Marc (Health Systems Trust (HST), 2017)South Africa is experiencing an increase in the prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which imposes a heavy burden on healthcare services. The South African government has made great strides towards management ... -
Allergy and infant feeding guidelines in the context of resource-constrained settings
Levin, Michael; Goga, Ameena; Doherty, Tanya; Coovadia, Hoosen; Sanders, David; Green, Robin J.; Kling, Sharon (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, 2016)Recent discussions about the need for revised infant feeding guidelines in the context of allergy are founded in substantial evidence-based research. Key studies (Table I)1-5 undertaken in high-income country settings ... -
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 ... -
Approaches and strategies used in the training and supervision of Health Extension Workers (HEWs) delivering integrated community case management (iCCM) of childhood illness in Ethiopia: a qualitative rapid appraisal
Nsibande, Duduzile; Loveday, Marian; Daniels, Karen; Sanders, David; Doherty, Tanya; Zembe, Wanga (Makerere University Medical School (Uganda), 2018)BACKGROUND: Globally, preventable and treatable childhood conditions such as pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, malnutrition and newborn conditions still account for 75% of under-five mortality. To reduce the mortality rate ... -
Assessing the health impact of transnational corporations: its importance and a framework
Baum, Fran; Sanders, David; Fisher, Matt; Anaf, Julia; Freudenberg, Nicholas; Friel, S.; Labonte, Ronald; London, Leslie; Monteiro, Carlos; Scott-Samuel, Alex; Sen, Amit (BioMed Central, 2016)BACKGROUND: The adverse health and equity impacts of transnational corporations' (TNCs) practices have become central public health concerns as TNCs increasingly dominate global trade and investment and shape national economies. ... -
Assessment of the uptake of neonatal and young infant referrals by community health workers to public health facilities in an urban informal settlement, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Nsibande, Duduzile; Doherty, Tanya; Ijumba, Petrida; Tomlinson, Mark; Jackson, Debra; Sanders, David; Lawn, Joy (Biomed CentralBiomed Central, 2013)Background: Globally, 40% of the 7.6 million deaths of children under five every year occur in the neonatal period (first 28 days after birth). Increased and earlier recognition of illness facilitated by community health ... -
"Big Food", the consumer food environment, health and the policy response in South Africa
Igumbor, Ehimario U.; Sanders, David; Puoane, Thandi; Tsolekile, Lungiswa; Schwarz, Cassandra; Purdy, Christopher; Swart, Rina; Durao, Solange; Hawkes, Corinna (Public Library of Science, 2012)Summary Points: * In South Africa, as in other jurisdictions, ‘‘Big Food’’ (large commercial entities that dominate the food and beverage environment) is becoming more widespread and is implicated in unhealthy eating. * ... -
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 ... -
Capacity-building for a strong public health nutrition workforce in lowresource countries
Delisle, Hélène; Shrimpton, Roger; Sanders, David (World Health Organization, 2017)Neglected for several decades, nutrition is now firmly on the development agenda. Important landmarks are the initiation of the Scaling Up Nutrition movement in 2010; the adoption by the World Health Assembly of ... -
Child mortality in South Africa: Is the Sustainable Development Goal (3.2) target achievable with current efforts?
Doherty, Tanya; Kroon, Max; Rhoda, Natasha; Sanders, David (Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2018)The two articles by Bamford et al.[1,2] in the recent SAMJ Maternal and Child Health Supplement present trends in inpatient case fatality rates for diarrhoeal disease, pneumonia and severe acute malnutrition (SAM), and ... -
Child Support Grant access and receipt among 12-week-old infants in an urban township setting in South Africa
Zembe-Mkabile, Wanga; Doherty, Tanya; Sanders, David; Jackson, Debra (Co-Action Publishing, 2014)BACKGROUND: Cash transfers (CTs) are increasingly used as a strategy to alleviate poverty and improve child health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. The Child Support Grant (CSG) is the largest CT programme ... -
Chronic non-communicable diseases
Puoane, Thandi; Tsolekile, Lungiswa; Sanders, David; Parker, Whadiah (Health Systems Trust, 2008)This chapter will examine the current actions, including lifestyle measures, for the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases within a South African context. It will also focus on the biological, behavioural ... -
Commentary: new development goals must focus on social determinants of health
Legge, David; Sanders, David (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2013)Although the millennium development goals (MDGs) addressed some of the starkest manifestations of the contemporary global health crisis, they failed to confront the underlying structures that maintain the crisis, including ... -
The ‘community’ in community case management of childhood illnesses in Malawi
Zembe-Mkabile, Wanga Z.; Jackson, Debra; Sanders, David (Taylor & Francis Open Access, 2016): Malawi has achieved a remarkable feat in reducing its under-5 mortality in time to meet its MDG 4 target despite high levels of poverty, low female literacy rates, recurrent economic crises, a severe shortage of human ... -
Costs of implementing integrated community case management (iCCM) in six African countries: implications for sustainability
Daviaud, Emmanuelle; Besada, Donela; Leon, Natalie; Rohde, Sarah; Sanders, David; Oliphant, Nicholas; Doherty, Tanya (Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2017)BACKGROUND Sub–Saharan Africa still reports the highest rates of under– five mortality. Low cost, high impact interventions exist, however poor access remains a challenge. Integrated community case management (iCCM) was ... -
Coverage of child health services in rural districts of Ethiopia with the health services extension program
Woldie, Mirkuzie; Morankar, Sudhakar Narayan; Feyissa, Garumma T.; Labonte, Ronald; Sanders, David (Academic Journals, 2015)Improving access to health care services has been advocated widely since the Declaration of Alma-Ata. Despite the efforts to realize this in Ethiopia, it is only in the year 2003 that the intention to take the package of ... -
Critiquing the response to the Ebola epidemic through a Primary Health Care Approach
Scott, Vera; Crawford-Browne, Sarah; Sanders, David (BioMed Central, 2016)BACKGROUND: The 2014/2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic has caused the global public health community to engage in difficult self-reflection. First, it must consider the part it played in relation to an important public health ... -
Defending academic and medical independence in Turkey
Benos, Alexis; Bodini, Chiara; Cowan, Hannah; McCoy, David; Milsom, Penelope; Sanders, David (Elsevier, 2017)We write on behalf of 207 health professionals, academics, and researchers, and 25 health and human rights organisations from many countries (appendix). We wish to bring to the attention of The Lancet’s readers alarming ...