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What is the difference between comprehensive and selective primary health care? Evidence from a five-year longitudinal realist case study in South Australia
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)
BACKGROUND Since the WHO’s Alma Ata Declaration on
Primary Health Care (PHC) there has been debate about
the advisability of adopting comprehensive or selective
PHC. Proponents of the latter argue that a more ...
Beyond form and functioning: Understanding how contextual factors influence village health committees in northern India
(Public Library of Science, 2017)
Health committees are a common strategy to foster community participation in health. Efforts
to strengthen committees often focus on technical inputs to improve committee form
(e.g. representative membership) and functioning ...
Negotiating power relations, gender equality, and collective agency: are village health committees transformative social spaces in northern India?
(BMC, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Participatory health initiatives ideally support progressive social change and stronger collective agency
for marginalized groups. However, this empowering potential is often limited by inequalities within ...
Leadership and governance of community health worker programmes at scale: a cross case analysis of provincial implementation in South Africa
(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 ...
Correction to: Effects of early feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity in a cohort of HIV unexposed South African infants and children
(BioMed Central, 2017)
After publication of this article [1] it was brought to our attention
that there were errors in the text under the heading
‘Data cleaning’, and in Table 3. The corrected text and updated
Table 3 are given in this erratum.
Costs of implementing integrated community case management (iCCM) in six African countries: implications for sustainability
(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 ...
An exploration of group-based HIV/AIDS treatment and care models in Sub-Saharan Africa using a realist evaluation (Intervention-Context-Actor-Mechanism- Outcome) heuristic tool: a systematic review
(BioMed Central, 2017)
Introduction: It is increasingly acknowledged that differentiated care models hold potential to manage large
volumes of patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART). Various group-based models of ART service delivery aimed ...
Assessing the impact of a waiting time survey on reducing waiting times in urban primary care clinics in Cape Town, South Africa
(PAGEPress, 2017)
A waiting time survey (WTS) conducted
in several clinics in Cape Town, South
Africa provided recommendations on how
to shorten waiting times (WT). A follow-up
study was conducted to assess whether WT
had reduced. Using ...
Uptake and predictors of early postnatal follow–up care amongst mother–baby pairs in South Africa: Results from three population–based surveys, 2010–2013
(Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2017)
BACKGROUND Achieving World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations
for postnatal care (PNC) within the first few weeks of life is vital
to eliminating early mother–to–child transmission of HIV (MTCT) and
improving ...
Using Theories of Change to inform implementation of health systems research and innovation: experiences of Future Health Systems consortium partners in Bangladesh, India and Uganda
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: The Theory of Change (ToC) is a management and evaluation tool supporting critical thinking in the
design, implementation and evaluation of development programmes. We document the experience of Future ...