Browsing Research Publications by Author "Schneider, Helen"
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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 social determinants of health: A case study from the Mitanin (Community Health Worker) programme in India
Nandi, Sulakshana; Schneider, Helen (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2014)The Mitanin Programme, a government community health worker (CHW) programme, was started in Chhattisgarh State of India in 2002. The CHWs (Mitanins) have consistently adopted roles that ... -
Applying a framework for assessing the health system challenges to scaling up mHealth in South Africa
Leon, Natalie; Schneider, Helen; Daviaud, Emmanuelle (BioMed Central, 2012)Background: Mobile phone technology has demonstrated the potential to improve health service delivery, but there is little guidance to inform decisions about acquiring and implementing mHealth technology at scale in health ... -
Assessing geographical inequity in availability of hospital services under the state-funded universal health insurance scheme in Chhattisgarh state, India, using a composite vulnerability index
Nandi, Sulakshana; Schneider, Helen; Garg, Samir (Taylor & Francis, 2018)Background: Countries are increasingly adopting health insurance schemes for achieving Universal Health Coverage. India’s state-funded health insurance scheme covers hospital care provided by ‘empanelled’ private and ... -
Book Review: Textbook of Global Health by A-E. Birn, Y. Pillay and T.H. Holtz
Schneider, Helen (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)Coinciding with a renewed focus on health needs and disease in the global south, the Millennium Development Goal era saw the emergence and widespread use of the term ‘global health’. The term has been associated with ... -
The challenges of reshaping disease specific and care oriented community based services towards comprehensive goals: a situation appraisal in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
Schneider, Helen; Schaay, Nikki; Dudley, Lilian; Goliath, Charlyn; Qukula, Tobeka (BioMed Central, 2015)Similar to other countries in the region, South Africa is currently reorienting a loosely structured and highly diverse community care system that evolved around HIV and TB, into a formalized, comprehensive and integrated ... -
Changes in paediatric HIV-related hospital admissions and mortality in Soweto, South Africa, 1996-2011: light at the end of the tunnel?
Meyers, Tammy; Dramowski, Angela; Schneider, Helen; Gardiner, Nicolene; Kuhn, Louise; Moore, David (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2012)Background: With widespread availability of pediatric antiretro- viral therapy and improved access to prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), it is important to monitor the impact on pediatric HIV-related ... -
Community care workers, poor referral networks and consumption of personal resources in rural South Africa
Sips, Ilona; Mazanderani, Ahmad Haeri; Schneider, Helen; Greef, Minrie; Barten, Francoise; Moshabela, Mosa (Public Library of Science, 2014)Although home-based care (HBC) programs are widely implemented throughout Africa, their success depends on the existence of an enabling environment, including a referral system and supply of essential commodities. The ... -
Comparing a paper based monitoring and evaluation system to a mHealth system to support the national community health worker programme, South Africa: an evaluation
Neupane, Sunisha; Odendaal, Willem; Friedman, Irwin; Jassat, Waasila; Schneider, Helen; Doherty, Tanya (BioMed Central, 2014)BACKGROUND: In an attempt to address a complex disease burden, including improving progress towards MDGs 4 and 5, South Africa recently introduced a re-engineered Primary Health Care (PHC) strategy, which has led to ... -
Developing a district level supportive supervision framework for community health workers through co-production in South Africa
Assegaai, Tumelo; Schneider, Helen; Scott, Vera (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 ... -
Development of non-profit organisations providing health and social services in rural South Africa: a three year longitudinal study
Moshabela, Mosa; Gitomer, Shira; Qhibi, Bongi; Schneider, Helen (PLOS, 2013)INTRODUCTION: In an effort to increase understanding of formation of the community and home-based care economy in south Africa, we investigated the origin and development of non-profit organisations (NPOs) providing home-and ... -
Development of the health system in the Western Cape: experiences since 1994
Gilson, Lucy; David Pienaar, Tracey; Brady, Leanne; Hawkridge, Anthony; Naled, Tracey; Vallabhjee, Krish; Schneider, Helen (Health Systems Trust (HST), 2017)Provincial governments in South Africa have a critical responsibility in terms of population health, yet few provincial-level analyses of health-system development have been undertaken. This chapter reports on research ... -
District and sub-district stewardship of quality and health outcomes: roles, systems and strategies
Schneider, Helen; Mianda, Solange (University of the Western Cape, 2022)Sub-district and district health systems – generically referred to as the meso-level – are key to enhancing quality of care and improving health outcomes. Facility (micro) level improvement strategies are less likely to ... -
District governance and improved maternal, neonatal and child health in South Africa: Pathways of change
Schneider, Helen; George, Asha; Mukinda, Fidele; Tabana, Hanani (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 ... -
Every loaf of bread is political – Reflections on collective care responses to covid-19 in Cape Town
van Ryneveld, Manya; Schneider, Helen; Brady, Leanne (Elsevier Ltd, 2024)Feminist perspectives on care have demonstrated how capitalism undervalues care work. The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted this further, as systems of production and social reproduction became destabilized globally. In many ... -
Exploring politics and contestation in the policy process: The case of Zambia’s contested community health strategy
Zulu, Joseph M.; Chavula, Maligzani P.; Schneider, Helen (Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2021)There have been increased calls for low- and middle-income countries to develop community health systems (CHS) policies or strategies. However, emerging global guidance brackets the inherent complexity and contestation ... -
Expressions of actor power in implementation: A qualitative case study of a health service intervention in South Africa
Schneider, Helen; Mukinda, Fidele; Tabana, Hanani (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 ... -
Factors associated with patterns of plural healthcare utilization among patients taking antiretroviral therapy in rural and urban South Africa: a cross sectional study
Moshabela, Mosa; Schneider, Helen; Silal, Sheetal; Cleary, Susan (BioMed Central, 2012)Background: In low-resource settings, patients’ use of multiple healthcare sources may complicate chronic care and clinical outcomes as antiretroviral therapy (ART) continues to expand. However, little is known ... -
Factors associated with workplace and interpersonal trust in the supervisory system of a community health worker programme in a rural South African district
Assegaai, Tumelo; Schneider, Helen (Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2022)Key to effective supportive supervision, and ultimately performance of community health workers (CHWs), is the nature of relationships in the formal health system at the coal face of programmes. The central character and ... -
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 ...