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Assessment of the association between plant‑based dietary exposures and cardiovascular disease risk profile in Sub‑Saharan Africa: A systematic review
(BMC, 2022)
Studies have investigated dietary attributes associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Africa.
However, there has been no effort to critically assess the existing evidence. This systematic review examined ...
Global core indicators for measuring WHO’s paediatric quality‑of‑care standards in health facilities: Development and expert consensus
(BMC, 2022)
There are currently no global recommendations on a parsimonious and robust set of indicators that
can be measured routinely or periodically to monitor quality of hospital care for children and young adolescents. We
describe ...
Priority indicators for adolescent health measurement – recommendations from the Global action for Measurement of Adolescent health (GAMA) advisory group
(Elsevier, 2022)
This article describes the selection of priority indicators for adolescent (10e19 years)
health measurement proposed by the Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent health advi-
sory group and partners, building on ...
Household access to non-communicable disease medicines during universal health care roll-out in Kenya: A time series analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2022)
This study aims to describe trends and estimate impact of county-level universal health coverage
expansion in Kenya on household availability of non-communicable disease medicines,
medicine obtainment at public hospitals ...
Family resilience and the Covid-19 pandemic: A South African study
(MDPI, 2022)
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic created various challenges for individuals and
families across the globe. Many countries went into a state of disaster and applied strict lockdown
regulations to limit the spread of the ...
Monitoring healthcare improvement for mothers and newborns: A quantitative review of WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA standards using every mother every mewborn assessment tools
(Frontiers Media, 2022)
Assessment tools with the ability to capture
WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA standard quality-of-care measures are needed.
This study aimed to assess the ability of Every Mother Every Newborn
(EMEN) tools to capture WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA ...
The role of emergent champions in policy implementation for decentralised drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)
Champions are recognised as important to driving
organisational change in healthcare quality improvement
initiatives in high-income settings. In low-income and
middle-income countries with a high disease burden
and ...
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy among Nigerians living with noncommunicable diseases: A qualitative study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2023)
The discovery and subsequent manufacture
of various types of COVID-19 vaccines were considered a
breakthrough in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Initially, limited supplies of COVID-19 vaccines warranted
vulnerable ...
Multilevel governance and control of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Learning from the four first waves
(MDPI, 2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impose a heavy burden on people around the
world. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has also been affected. The objective of this
study was to explore national policy responses ...
Evidence of past and current collaborations between traditional health practitioners and biomedical health practitioners: A scoping review protocol
(BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP, 2021)
Healthcare seekers around the globe use
more than one healthcare system, with most using the
traditional and the Western approaches concurrently. To
date, little collaboration between the two systems has
taken place ...