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What constitutes responsiveness of physicians: A qualitative study in rural Bangladesh
(Public Library of Science, 2017)
Responsiveness entails the social actions by health providers to meet the legitimate expectations
of patients. It plays a critical role in ensuring continuity and effectiveness of care
within people centered health ...
Doing implementation research on health governance: a frontline researcher’s reflexive account of field-level challenges and their management
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Implementation Research (IR) in and around health systems comes with unique challenges for
researchers including implementation, multi-layer governance, and ethical issues. Partnerships between
researchers, ...
Addressing social determinants of health in South Africa: the journey continues
(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 ...
Monitoring and evaluation of sports as a tool in HIV/AIDS awareness programmes: Experiences of five selected Non- Governmental Organisations in South Africa
(AFAHPER-SD, 2017)
Sport has increasingly been used as a vehicle for Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired
Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) awareness programmes, and the use of monitoring
and evaluation (M&E) has become evident in the ...
An approach to developing a prediction model of fertility intent among HIV-positive women and men in Cape Town, South Africa: a case study
(Springer, 2017)
As a ‘case-study’ to demonstrate an approach to establishing a fertility-intent prediction model, we used data collected from recently diagnosed HIV-positive women (N = 69) and men (N = 55) who reported inconsistent condom ...
Advancing the agenda on noncommunicable diseases: prevention and management at community level
(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 ...
Development and validation of a structured observation scale to measure responsiveness of physicians in rural Bangladesh
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Responsiveness of physicians is the social actions that physicians do to meet the legitimate expectations
of service seekers. Since there is no such scale, this study aimed at developing one for measuring ...
Development of the health system in the Western Cape: experiences since 1994
(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 ...
Independent and interactive effects of HIV infection, clinical stage and other comorbidities on survival of children treated for severe malnutrition in rural South Africa: A retrospective multicohort study
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2017)
BACKGROUND. There is still limited to no evidence on the independent and interactive effects of HIV infection, disease stage, baseline
disease severity and other important comorbidities on mortality risk among young ...
Short-term and sustained effects of a health system strengthening intervention to improve mortality trends for paediatric severe malnutrition in rural South African hospitals
(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2017)
BACKGROUND. Case fatality rates for childhood severe acute malnutrition (SAM) remain high in some resource-limited facilities in South
Africa (SA), despite the widespread availability of the World Health Organization ...