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Policy analysis of the Iranian Health Transformation Plan in primary healthcare
BACKGROUND: Health systems reform is inevitable due to the never-ending changing nature of societal health needs and policy dynamism. Today, …
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A qualitative appraisal of stakeholders’ perspectives of a community-based primary health care program in rural Ghana
BACKGROUND: The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) initiative is a national strategy for improving access to primary health …
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Exploring effectiveness of different health financing mechanisms in Nigeria; what needs to change and how can it happen?
BACKGROUND: Various attempts to examine health financing mechanisms in Nigeria highlight the fact that there is no single mechanism that …
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Strengthening the “P” in Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response in Bungoma county, Kenya: implications for scale-up
BACKGROUND: This paper examines perinatal death reporting and reviews in Bungoma county, Kenya, where substantial progress has been made, providing …
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Outsiders, insiders, and intermediaries: village health teams’ negotiation of roles to provide high quality sexual, reproductive and HIV care in Nakaseke, Uganda
BACKGROUND: Community health workers, known as Village Health Teams (VHTs) in Uganda, play a central role in increasing access to …
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Assessing the sustainability of the Nigerian urban reproductive health initiative facility-level programming: longitudinal analysis of service quality
BACKGROUND: To date, there is little information on the sustainability of family planning (FP) service quality after completion of a …
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Qualitative outcomes of Clean Cut: implementation lessons from reducing surgical infections in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Clean Cut is a six month, multi-modal, adaptive intervention aimed at reducing surgical infections through improving six critical perioperative …
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Readiness to treat and factors associated with survival of newborns with breathing difficulties in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Ethiopia is one of five countries that account for half of the world's 2.6 million newborn deaths. A quarter …
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Inequality in geographical distribution of hospitals and hospital beds in densely populated metropolitan cities of Iran
BACKGROUND: This study aims to assess geographical distribution of hospitals and extent of inequalities in hospital beds against socioeconomic status …
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Predictors of loss to follow up among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus attending a private not for profit urban diabetes clinic in Uganda – a descriptive retrospective study
BACKGROUND: Although the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus is increasing in Uganda, data on loss to follow up (LTFU) …
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Evaluating the impact of the single exit price policy on a basket of originator medicines in South Africa from 1999 to 2014 using a time series analysis
BACKGROUND: Affordability and availability of quality medicines to all its citizens has been a key priority area for South Africa …
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Towards a definition of male partner involvement in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Uganda: a pragmatic grounded theory approach
BACKGROUND: Male partner involvement has been shown to increase mothers' uptake of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and …
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Mobile sexual health services for adolescents: investigating the acceptability of youth-directed mobile clinic services in Cape Town, South Africa
BACKGROUND: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic is growing rapidly among South African adolescents and young adults (AYA). Although HIV …
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Client experiences with antenatal care waiting times in southern Mozambique
BACKGROUND: Antenatal care (ANC) provides a range of critical health services during pregnancy that can improve maternal and neonatal health …
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Determinants of community-based health insurance implementation in west Gojjam zone, Northwest Ethiopia: a community based cross sectional study design
BACKGROUND: In most developing countries, healthcare cost is mainly paid at the time of sickness and out-of-pocket at the point …
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Correction to: Contraception and abortion knowledge, attitudes and practices among adolescents from low and middle-income countries: a systematic review
In the original publication of this article [1], there are several errors. The original sentences and corrections are listed below:
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Determinants of health workers intention to use malaria rapid diagnostic test in Kintampo North Municipality, Ghana - a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Resistance to antimalarial drugs resulting from overuse of the medication remains a threat to malaria control and elimination in …
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Analysis of the quality of seasonal malaria chemoprevention provided by community health Workers in Boulsa health district, Burkina Faso
BACKGROUND: Since 2014, the Burkina Faso government has made Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) a priority in its strategic plan to …
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Health facility preparedness for cholera outbreak response in four cholera-prone districts in Cameroon: a cross sectional study
BACKGROUND: The risk of cholera outbreak remains high in Cameroon. This is because of the persistent cholera outbreaks in neighboring …
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Utilization and outcomes of cervical cancer screening services in Harare City, 2012–2016: a secondary data analysis
BACKGROUND: Visual inspection with acetic acid and cervicography (VIAC) is a method used to screen for cervical cancer. VIAC can …