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Integrating community health assistant-driven sexual and reproductive health services in the community health system in Nyimba district in Zambia: Mapping key actors, points of integration, and conditions shaping the process
(Reproductive Health, 2019)
Introduction: Although large scale public sector community health worker programs have been key in providing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in low- A nd middle-income countries, their integration process ...
“Righting the wrongs”: Addressing human rights and gender equality through research since Cairo
(Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2019)
The Programme of Action (PoA) adopted in Cairo at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994 called for strengthen- ing of the evidence base to guide policies and pro- gramming to deliver on ...
Practice of death surveillance and response for maternal, newborn and child health: A framework and application to a South African health district
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
To assess the functioning of maternal, perinatal,
neonatal and child death surveillance and response (DSR)
mechanisms at a health district level.A framework of elements covering analysis of
causes of death, and processes ...
Paramedics, poetry, and film: Health policy and systems research at the intersection of theory, art, and practice
(BMC, 2019)
Violence is a public health issue. It is the consequence of a complex set of interacting political, social, and
economic factors firmly rooted in past and current injustice. South Africa remains one of the most ...
Does having a mobile phone matter? Linking phone access among women to health in India: An exploratory analysis of the National Family Health Survey
(Public Library of Science, 2020)
The disruptive potential of mobile phones in catalyzing development is increasingly being recognized. However, numerous gaps remain in access to phones and their influence on health care utilization. In this cross-sectional ...
Democratic South Africa at 25 – A conceptual framework and narrative review of the social and structural determinants of adolescent health
(Springer Nature, 2021)
Twenty-five years into South Africa’s constitutional democracy provides an opportunity to take stock of the social
and structural determinants of adolescent health. Those born in democratic South Africa, commonly known ...
Policy foundations for transformation: A gender analysis of adolescent health policy documents in South Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the United Nations Global Strategy (2016-30) emphasize that all women, children and adolescents 'survive, thrive and transform'. A key element of this global policy framework ...
Exploring the sustainability of perinatal audit in four district hospitals in the Western Cape, South Africa: a multiple case study approach
(BMJ, 2022)
Introduction Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) is an intervention process that uses a continuous cycle of identification, notification and review of deaths to determine avoidable causes followed ...
Between rhetoric and reality: Learnings from youth participation in the adolescent and youth health policy in South Africa
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2022)
Youth participation makes an essential contribution to the design of policies and with the appropriate
structures, and processes, meaningful engagement leads to healthier, more just, and equal societies. There is a ...
Unmasking power as foundational to research on sexual and reproductive health and rights
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
Relations of power are intrinsic to the social
determinants of sexual and reproductive
health (SRH); they influence the content,
quality and outcomes of SRH care; and they
shape the negotiation and realisation of
sexual ...