Politiques et systèmes de santé

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National disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 257 diseases and injuries in Ethiopia, 1990–2015: findings from the global burden of disease study 2015

BACKGROUND: Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) provide a summary measure of health and can be a critical input to guide health …

2017 Open Access

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Improving health literacy through group antenatal care: a prospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: To examine whether exposure to group antenatal care increased women's health literacy by improving their ability to interpret and …

2017 Open Access

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Determinants of complete immunization among senegalese children aged 12–23 months: evidence from the demographic and health survey

BACKGROUND: The expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) is one of the most cost-effective interventions to reduce childhood mortality and morbidity. …

2017 Open Access

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National mortality burden due to communicable, non-communicable, and other diseases in Ethiopia, 1990–2015: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

BACKGROUND: Ethiopia lacks a complete vital registration system that would assist in measuring disease burden and risk factors. We used …

2017 Open Access

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Factors associated with maternal mortality in Malawi: application of the three delays model

BACKGROUND: The three delays model proposes that maternal mortality is associated with delays in: 1) deciding to seek care; 2) …

2017 Open Access

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Malaria research in Malawi from 1984 to 2016: a literature review and bibliometric analysis

BACKGROUND: Malaria research can play a vital role in addressing the malaria burden in Malawi. An organized approach in addressing …

2017 Open Access

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Perceptions of quality across the maternal care continuum in the context of a health financing intervention: Evidence from a mixed methods study in rural Malawi

BACKGROUND: In 2013, Malawi with its development partners introduced a Results-Based Financing for Maternal and Newborn Health (RBF4MNH) intervention to …

2017 Open Access

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Building freeways: piloting communication skills in additional languages to health service personnel in Cape Town, South Africa

BACKGROUND: This study reflects on the development and teaching of communication skills courses in additional national languages to health care …

2017 Open Access

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Patients’ satisfaction towards radiological service and associated factors in Hawassa University Teaching and referral hospital, Southern Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Patient satisfaction, one of the main components of quality of care, is a crucial phenomenon for the overall health …

2017 Open Access

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Client and facility level determinants of quality of care in family planning services in Ethiopia: Multilevel modelling

INTRODUCTION: Over the last two decades, while contraceptive use has improved in Ethiopia, the contraceptive prevalence rate remains low. In …

2017 Open Access

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Factors that influence the clinical utilization of the nursing process at a hospital in Accra, Ghana

BACKGROUND: The nursing process is a tool that is recommended for use by all professional nurses working in Ghana, in …

2017 Open Access

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Associations between perceptions of care and women’s childbirth experience: a population-based cross-sectional study in Rwanda

BACKGROUND: In recent years Rwanda has achieved remarkable improvement in quality of maternity care services but there is evidence of …

2017 Open Access

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Oesophageal cancer in South Africa: The long timeline from onset of symptoms to definitive management

Background: In rural South Africa, most patients with oesophageal cancer have delayed presentations with debilitating symptoms and inoperable disease. This …

2017 Open Access

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Quality of maternity care and its determinants along the continuum in Kenya: A structural equation modeling analysis

BACKGROUND: Improving access to delivery services does not guarantee access to quality obstetric care and better survival, and therefore, concerns …

2017 Open Access

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Measuring three aspects of motivation among health workers at primary level health facilities in rural Tanzania

BACKGROUND: The threshold of 2.3 skilled health workers per 1,000 population, published in the World Health Report in 2006, has …

2017 Open Access

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Skilled delivery inequality in Ethiopia: to what extent are the poorest and uneducated mothers benefiting?

BACKGROUND: The fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targeted at improving maternal health. In this regard, Ethiopia has shown substantial progresses …

2017 Open Access

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Which primary care model? A qualitative analysis of ward-based outreach teams in South Africa

Globally, models of extending universal health coverage through primary care are influenced by country-specific systems of health care and disease …

2017 Open Access

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Is quality of care a key predictor of perinatal health care utilization and patient satisfaction in Malawi?

BACKGROUND: The Malawi government encourages early antenatal care, delivery in health facilities, and timely postnatal care. Efforts to sustain or …

2017 Open Access

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A systematic review of electronic audit and feedback: intervention effectiveness and use of behaviour change theory

BACKGROUND: Audit and feedback is a common intervention for supporting clinical behaviour change. Increasingly, health data are available in electronic …

2017 Open Access

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Health workforce and governance: the crisis in Nigeria

BACKGROUND: In Nigeria, several challenges have been reported within the health sector, especially in training, funding, employment, and deployment of …

2017 Open Access