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Towards universal health coverage: What are the system requirements for effective large-scale community health worker programmes?
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)Against the background of efforts to strengthen health systems for universal health coverage and health equity, many African countries have been relying on lay members of the community, often referred to as community ... -
Championing mental health at work: Emerging practice from innovative projects in the UK
(Oxford University Press, 2014)This paper examines the value of participatory approaches within interventions aimed at promoting mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. Specifically the paper explores data from the thematic evaluation of the ... -
Comparative analysis of essential medicines for cardiovascular diseases in countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
(World Health Organization, 2018)Adequate access to essential medicines for cardiovascular disease is necessary to address the high cardiovascular disease burden in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). ... -
Policymakers’ perspectives towards developing a guideline to inform policy on fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A qualitative study
(MDPI, 2019)Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) has a high prevalence in South Africa, especially among the poor socioeconomic communities. However, there is no specific policy to address FASD. Using a qualitative study design, ... -
Using the COM-B model and behaviour change wheel to develop a theory and evidence-based intervention for women with gestational diabetes (IINDIAGO)
(BMC Public Health, 2023)Background: In South Africa, the prevalence of gestational diabetes (GDM) is growing, concomitant with the dramatically increasing prevalence of overweight/obesity among women. There is an urgent need to develop tailored ... -
Research on high quality health care needs to move beyond what to how
(The Lancet Global Health, 2023)Background: Health system quality has received much attention since The Lancet Global Health Commission on high quality health systems in 2018, which proposed new ways to define, measure, and improve the performance of ... -
Spatial modelling and mapping of female genital mutilation in Kenya
(BMC, 2014)Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is still prevalent in several communities in Kenya and other areas in Africa, as well as being practiced by some migrants from African countries living in other parts of the world. ... -
Expanding the prevention armamentarium portfolio: A framework for promoting HIV-conversant communities within a complex, adaptive epidemiological landscape
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2015)The article describes a design journey that culminated in an HIV-Conversant Community Framework that is now being piloted in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The objective of the initiative is to reduce the aggregate ... -
Key challenges to achieving health for all in an inequitable society: The case of South Africa
(American Public Health Association, 2006)The health inequalities in South Africa are rapidly worsening. Since 1994, the new democratic government has initiated a number of large-scale policies and programs with explicit pro-equity objectives that have improved ... -
Gendered conflict in the human family
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)Sexual conflict is a thriving area of animal behaviour research. Yet parallel research in the evolutionary human sciences remains underdeveloped and has become mired by controversy. In this special collection, we aim to ... -
A descriptive analysis of the role of a WhatsApp clinical discussion group as a forum for continuing medical education in the management of complicated HIV and TB clinical cases in a group of doctors in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2019)As South Africa’s (SA) HIV programme increases in size, HIV/TB cases occur that are often beyond the clinical scope of primary healthcare clinicians. In SA’s Eastern Cape (EC) province, health facilities are geographically ... -
Evaluation of pharmaceutical industry led access programmes: A standardised framework
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)Pharmaceutical industry-led access programmes are increasing in number and scope worldwide. We present a new standardised framework for evaluation of these programmes that includes three components: a taxonomy of 11 ... -
From pre-implementation to institutionalization: Lessons from sustaining a perinatal audit program in South Africa
(NLM (Medline), 2023)Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR), or related forms of maternal and perinatal death audits, can strengthen health systems. We explore the history of initiating, scaling up, and institutionalizing ... -
Examining the variations in the implementation of interventions to address stillbirth from the national to subnational levels: Experiences from Uganda
(BMC, 2022)The current global burden of stillbirth disproportionately afects regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, where Uganda is located. To respond to this burden, policies made at the national level were difused from the centre and ... -
Fear of the perpetrator: A major reason why sexual assault victims delayed presenting at hospital
(Wiley, 2014)Sexual violence occurs globally and has been reportedacross various cultures and among all demographic andsocio-economic groups. Although both sexes are affected,women are usually the victims and men the perpetrators;in ... -
Responding to the crisis in sub-Saharan Africa: The role of nutrition
(Cambridge University Press, 2006)In the chapter dealing with education and health, the report of the influential Commission for Africa prioritises basic health systems, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. In contrast, nutrition is given less than half ... -
Engagement of non-government organisations and community care workers in collaborative TB/HIV activities including prevention of mother to child transmission in South Africa: Opportunities and challenges
(BMC, 2012)The implementation of collaborative TB/HIV activities may help to mitigate the impact of the dual epidemic on patients and communities. Such implementation requires integrated interventions across facilities and levels of ... -
Improving the coverage of the PMTCT programme through a participatory quality improvement intervention in South Africa
(BMC, 2009)Despite several years of implementation, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes in many resource poor settings are failing to reach the majority of HIV positive women. We report on a data driven ... -
Scaling up health promotion interventions in the era of HIV/AIDS: Challenges for a rights based approach
(Oxford University Press, 2005)A sustained scaled up response to global public health challenges such as HIV/AIDS will require a functioning and efficient health system, based on the foundation of strong primary healthcare. Whilst this is necessary, ... -
Training community care workers to provide comprehensive TB⁄HIV⁄PMTCT integrated care in KwaZulu-Natal: Lessons learnt
(Wiley, 2012)To describe a participatory approach to implement and evaluate ways to integrate and traincommunity care workers (CCWs) to enhance collaborative TB⁄HIV⁄PMTCT activities, and home-basedHIV counseling and testing (HCT) at ...
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