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Men’s perspectives on male participation in antenatal care with their pregnant wives: a case of a military hospital in Lusaka, Zambia
BACKGROUND: Male partner participation in antenatal care (ANC) is important and contributes to better maternal and neonatal birth outcomes. Studies …
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Preparedness of health facilities in managing hypertension & diabetes mellitus in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: a cross sectional study
BACKGROUND: Hypertension and Diabetes mellitus are risk factors for cardiovascular diseases that cause 17 million deaths globally. Many of these …
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Blood donors deferral prevalence and causes in a tertiary health care hospital, southern Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Blood transfusion is a life-saving intervention. However, the safety of the donor and the recipient is paramount. This study …
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Impacts of working environment and benefits packages on the health professionals’ job satisfaction in selected public health facilities in eastern Ethiopia: using principal component analysis
BACKGROUND: World Health Organization (WHO) predicted that there will be a shortfall of skilled healthcare by 2035 with the greatest …
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Supply chain management and accessibility to point-of-care testing in resource-limited settings: a systematic scoping review
BACKGROUND: World Health Organization (WHO) has created an essential list of in-vitro diagnostics. Supply chain management (SCM) is said to …
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A health system framework for perinatal care in South African district hospitals: a Delphi technique
BACKGROUND: The majority of perinatal deaths occurring in low- and middle- income countries are preventable. South Africa is a middle-income …
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Antihypertensive prescription among black patients without compelling indications: prescription, effectiveness, quality and cost of medication
BACKGROUND: Hypertension remains one of the leading causes of death in Nigeria. Appropriate and cost-effective treatment of the disease is …
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Experiences of homeless women on maternity health service utilization and associated challenge in Aksum town, Northern Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Homeless women are a highly vulnerable group for risks of pregnancy and childbirth-related complications. They may also face multiple …
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Compliance with standard precaution practices and associated factors among health care workers in Dawuro Zone, South West Ethiopia, cross sectional study
BACKGROUND: Infection in healthcare facilities is a major public health problem in most developing countries like Ethiopia. Currently the overall …
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Impact of the free healthcare initiative on wealth-related inequity in the utilization of maternal & child health services in Sierra Leone
BACKGROUND: As a result of financial barriers to the utilization of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) services, the Government of …
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The integrated health service model: the approach to restrain the vicious cycle to chronic diseases
BACKGROUND: In life time, nearly each person succumbs to some sort of chronic disease and many develop complicated chronic diseases. …
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Adherence of doctors to hypertension clinical guidelines in academy charity teaching hospital, Khartoum, Sudan
BACKGROUND: Clinical guidelines are systematically proven statements that help physicians to make healthcare decisions for specific medical conditions. Non-adherence to …
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Healthcare providers’ attitudes towards care for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Malawi
BACKGROUND: Men who have sex with men (MSM) are a priority group in Malawi's national response to Human Immunodeficiency Virus …
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“The number of clients is increasing but the supplies are reducing”: provider strategies for responding to chronic antiretroviral (ARV) medicines stock-outs in resource-limited settings: a qualitative study from Uganda
BACKGROUND: Despite the increasing frequency of ARV medicines stock-outs in Sub-Saharan Africa, there is little research inquiring into the mitigation …
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Examining the impact of WHO’s Focused Antenatal Care policy on early access, underutilisation and quality of antenatal care services in Malawi: a retrospective study
BACKGROUND: A variety of antenatal care models have been implemented in low and middle-income countries over the past decades, as …
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Household relationships and healthcare seeking behaviour for common childhood illnesses in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-national mixed effects analysis
BACKGROUND: Intra-household dynamics play crucial roles in utilisation of healthcare services for children. We investigated the influence of household relationships …
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Evaluation of facility and community-based active household tuberculosis contact investigation in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: No established strategy for household tuberculosis (TB) contact investigation (HTCI) exists in Ethiopia. We implemented integrated, active HTCI model …
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Delayed illness recognition and multiple referrals: a qualitative study exploring care-seeking trajectories contributing to maternal and newborn illnesses and death in southern Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Maternal and neonatal mortality remain high in southern Tanzania despite an increasing number of births occurring in health facilities. …
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Growth monitoring and promotion practices among health workers may be suboptimal despite high knowledge scores
BACKGROUND: The child health record booklet (CHRB) is a powerful tool for screening children under five and for education of …
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Magnitude of delayed turnaround time of laboratory results in Amhara Public Health Institute, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Clinical decisions depend on timely laboratory result reporting. The timeliness is commonly expressed in turnaround time and serves as …