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“Poverty is the big thing”: exploring financial, transportation, and opportunity costs associated with fistula management and repair in Nigeria and Uganda
BACKGROUND: Women living with obstetric fistula often live in poverty and in remote areas far from hospitals offering surgical repair. …
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Examining equity in health insurance coverage: an analysis of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme
BACKGROUND: Following years of out-of-pocket payment for healthcare, some countries in Africa including Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda have instituted social …
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Decomposing health inequality with population-based surveys: a case study in Rwanda
BACKGROUND: Ensuring equal access to care and providing financial risk protection are at the center of the global health agenda. …
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Assessing the community-level impact of a decade of user fee policy shifts on health facility deliveries in Kenya, 2003-2014
BACKGROUND: The long-term impact of user fee removal policies on health service utilization in low- and middle-income countries may vary …
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Street-level workers’ inadequate knowledge and application of exemption policies in Burkina Faso jeopardize the achievement of universal health coverage: evidence from a cross-sectional survey
BACKGROUND: Street-level workers play a key role in public health policies in Africa, as they are often the ones to …
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The impact of rural residence and HIV infection on poor tuberculosis treatment outcomes in a large urban hospital: a retrospective cohort analysis
BACKGROUND: Successful tuberculosis (TB) treatment is essential to effective TB control. TB-HIV coinfection, social determinants and access to services influenced …
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Social health insurance contributes to universal coverage in South Africa, but generates inequities: survey among members of a government employee insurance scheme
BACKGROUND: Many low- and middle-income countries are reforming their health financing mechanisms as part of broader strategies to achieve universal …
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Do beneficiaries’ views matter in healthcare purchasing decisions? Experiences from the Nigerian tax-funded health system and the formal sector social health insurance program of the National Health Insurance Scheme
BACKGROUND: Purchasing is a health financing function that involves the transfer of pooled resources to providers on behalf of a …
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Monitoring SO2emission trends and residents’ perceived health risks from PGM smelting at Selous Metallurgical Complex in Zimbabwe
Persistently high sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions from platinum group metal (PGM) smelting pose a major threat to communities …
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Doing implementation research on health governance: a frontline researcher’s reflexive account of field-level challenges and their management
BACKGROUND: Implementation Research (IR) in and around health systems comes with unique challenges for researchers including implementation, multi-layer governance, and …
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Factors influencing risky sexual behaviour among Mozambican miners: a socio-epidemiological contribution for HIV prevention framework in Mozambique
BACKGROUND: Information dealing with social and behavioural risk factors as well as their mechanisms among Mozambican migrants working in South …
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Minimum dietary diversity and associated factors among children aged 6–23 months in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Dietary diversity has long been recognized as a key element of high quality diets. Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD) is …
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Practicing governance towards equity in health systems: LMIC perspectives and experience
The unifying theme of the papers in this series is a concern for understanding the everyday practice of governance in …
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Devolution and its effects on health workforce and commodities management – early implementation experiences in Kilifi County, Kenya
BACKGROUND: Decentralisation is argued to promote community participation, accountability, technical efficiency, and equity in the management of resources, and has …
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Factors contributing to regional inequalities in acute respiratory infections symptoms among under-five children in Nigeria: a decomposition analysis
BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are major causes of morbidity and mortality in many low-income countries. Although factors associated with …
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Willingness to pay for National Health Insurance Fund among public servants in Juba City, South Sudan: a contingent evaluation
BACKGROUND: This study assessed willingness to pay for National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) among public servants in Juba City. NHIF …
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Exploring how different modes of governance act across health system levels to influence primary healthcare facility managers’ use of information in decision-making: experience from Cape Town, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Governance, which includes decision-making at all levels of the health system, and information have been identified as key, interacting …
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Access to medicines and diagnostic tests integral in the management of diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases in Uganda: insights from the ACCODAD study
BACKGROUND: Despite the burgeoning burden of diabetes mellitus (DM) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in low and middle income countries (LMIC), …
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Engaging and staying engaged: a phenomenological study of barriers to equitable access to mental healthcare for people with severe mental disorders in a rural African setting
BACKGROUND: In low-and middle-income countries, integration of mental health into primary care is recommended to reduce the treatment gap. In …
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An assessment of equity in the distribution of non-financial health care inputs across public primary health care facilities in Tanzania
BACKGROUND: There is limited evidence on how health care inputs are distributed from the sub-national level down to health facilities …