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Improving data quality across 3 sub-Saharan African countries using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR): results from the African Health Initiative
BACKGROUND: High-quality data are critical to inform, monitor and manage health programs. Over the seven-year African Health Initiative of the …
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Mentorship and coaching to support strengthening healthcare systems: lessons learned across the five Population Health Implementation and Training partnership projects in sub-Saharan Africa
BACKGROUND: Despite global efforts to increase health workforce capacity through training and guidelines, challenges remain in bridging the gap between …
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Data-driven quality improvement in low-and middle-income country health systems: lessons from seven years of implementation experience across Mozambique, Rwanda, and Zambia
BACKGROUND: Well-functioning health systems need to utilize data at all levels, from the provider, to local and national-level decision makers, …
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A descriptive study of treatment provision for problem alcohol drinking in adult males in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Poor, Black African males are underrepresented as patients in facilities that treat problem drinking in Cape Town, South Africa. …
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“Helping my neighbour is like giving a loan…” –the role of social relations in chronic illness in rural Uganda
BACKGROUND: Understanding individuals' experience of accessing care and tending to various other needs during chronic illness in a rural context …
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Analysis of the impact of healthcare support initiatives for physically disabled people on their access to care in the city of Saint-Louis, Senegal
BACKGROUND: People with disabilities represent approximately 6% of the Senegalese population. They face significant barriers to accessing health care. Although …
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Analyzing implementation dynamics using theory-driven evaluation principles: lessons learnt from a South African centralized chronic dispensing model
BACKGROUND: Centralized dispensing of essential medicines is one of South Africa's strategies to address the shortage of pharmacists, reduce patients' …
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Development and validation of a structured observation scale to measure responsiveness of physicians in rural Bangladesh
BACKGROUND: Responsiveness of physicians is the social actions that physicians do to meet the legitimate expectations of service seekers. Since …
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Health practitioners’ emotional reactions to caring for hospitalized children in Lomé, Togo: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Health practitioners frequently encounter dying, death and suffering. While providing health care can be stressful, the literature on how …
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing an evidence-based woman-focused intervention in South African health services
BACKGROUND: Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, numerous behavior change, risk-reduction, and biomedical interventions have been developed and tested. …
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From policy to practice: exploring the implementation of antiretroviral therapy access and retention policies between 2013 and 2016 in six sub-Saharan African countries
BACKGROUND: Understanding the implementation of 2013 World Health Organization (WHO) consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating …
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Measurement and analysis of inequality of opportunity in access of maternal and child health care in Togo
BACKGROUND: Access to maternal and child health care in low- and middle-income countries such as Togo is characterized by significant …
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Task shifting in the management of hypertension in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is characterized by a high prevalence of hypertension (HTN) and a high …
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Public-on-private dual practice among physicians in public hospitals of Tigray National Regional State, North Ethiopia: perspectives of physicians, patients and managers
BACKGROUND: Physicians who work in the private sector while also holding a salaried job in a public hospital, known as …
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Cost of delivering health care services at primary health facilities in Ghana
BACKGROUND: There is limited knowledge on the cost of delivering health services at primary health care facilities in Ghana which …
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Feasibility of implementing a cellphone-based reminder/recall strategy to improve childhood routine immunization in a low-resource setting: a descriptive report
BACKGROUND: Reminder/recall systems are effective ways to improve immunization rates, but their feasibility in primary health care (PHC) settings in …
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Determinants of patterns of maternal and child health service utilization in a rural community in south eastern Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Women and children constitute a large proportion of any population. They are the most vulnerable to morbidity and mortality …
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“It takes more than a fellowship program”: reflections on capacity strengthening for health systems research in sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) experiences an acute dearth of well-trained and skilled researchers. This dearth constrains the region's capacity to identify …
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Health related quality of life of HIV/AIDS patients on highly active anti-retroviral therapy at a university referral hospital in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Highly active antiretroviral therapy improves the longevity of patients living with HIV/AIDS. We conducted the study in order to …
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Economic cost and quality of life of family caregivers of schizophrenic patients attending psychiatric hospitals in Ghana
BACKGROUND: Low and middle income countries face many challenges in meeting their populations' mental health care needs. Though family caregiving …