Politiques et systèmes de santé

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Assistance technique de la Banque Mondiale sur le financement de la sante en Tunisie : etude sur l’assistance medicale gratuite

2016 Open Access

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The African Palliative Care Association (APCA) jointly hosted its triennial palliative care conference for Africa with the Hospice and Palliative …

2016 Open Access

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The treatment of sexually transmitted infections

The high level of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in South Africa can be attributed to a large number of factors …

2016 Open Access

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Post-doctoral research fellowship as a health policy and systems research capacity development intervention: a case of the CHESAI initiative

BACKGROUND: Building capacity in health policy and systems research (HPSR), especially in low- and middle-income countries, remains a challenge. Various …

2016 Open Access

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Dimensions of patient satisfaction with comprehensive abortion care in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Patient satisfaction is a measure of the extent to which a patient is content with the health care received …

2016 Open Access

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Barriers to Institutional Childbirth in Rumbek North County, South Sudan: A Qualitative Study

BACKGROUND: South Sudan has one of the world's poorest health indicators due to a fragile health system and a combination …

2016 Open Access

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Benchmarking the Cost per Person of Mass Treatment for Selected Neglected Tropical Diseases: An Approach Based on Literature Review and Meta-regression with Web-Based Software Application

BACKGROUND: Advocacy around mass treatment for the elimination of selected Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) has typically put the cost per …

2016 Open Access

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Shifting human resources for health in the context of ART provision: qualitative and quantitative findings from the Lablite baseline study

BACKGROUND: Lablite is an implementation project supporting and studying decentralized antiretroviral therapy (ART) rollout to rural communities in Malawi, Uganda …

2016 Open Access

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Cost effectiveness of clinical associates: A case study for the Mpumalanga province in South Africa

BACKGROUND: The National Department of Health of South Africa decided to start a programme to train mid-level healthcare workers, called …

2016 Open Access

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Criteria-based audit to improve quality of care of foetal distress: standardising obstetric care at a national referral hospital in a low resource setting, Tanzania

BACKGROUND: In Tanzania, substandard intrapartum management of foetal distress contributes to a third of perinatal deaths, and the majority are …

2016 Open Access

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‘The stars seem aligned’: a qualitative study to understand the effects of context on scale-up of maternal and newborn health innovations in Ethiopia, India and Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Donors commonly fund innovative interventions to improve health in the hope that governments of low and middle-income countries will …

2016 Open Access

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Provider adherence to first antenatal care guidelines and risk of pregnancy complications in public sector facilities: a Ghanaian cohort study

BACKGROUND: Guideline utilization aims at improvement in quality of care and better health outcomes. The objective of the current study …

2016 Open Access

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The inescapable question of fairness in Pay-for-performance bonus distribution: a qualitative study of health workers’ experiences in Tanzania

BACKGROUND: During the last decade there has been a growing concern about the lack of results in the health sectors …

2016 Open Access

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Awareness of diabetic foot disease amongst patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus attending the chronic outpatients department at a regional hospital in Durban, South Africa

BACKGROUND: Diabetic foot disease (DFD) is a major challenge for the healthcare system, with enormous economic consequences for people living …

2016 Open Access

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Stillbirths and quality of care during labour at the low resource referral hospital of Zanzibar: a case-control study

BACKGROUND: To study determinants of stillbirths as indicators of quality of care during labour in an East African low resource …

2016 Open Access

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Factors Determining Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Africa: A Systematic Review of Mixed Evidence

BACKGROUND: Improving use of family planning services is key to improving maternal health in Africa, and provision of quality of …

2016 Open Access

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The challenge of bridging the gap between researchers and policy makers: experiences of a Health Policy Research Group in engaging policy makers to support evidence informed policy making in Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Getting research into policy and practice (GRIPP) is a process of going from research evidence to decisions and action. …

2016 Open Access

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A qualitative study on factors that influence women’s choice of delivery in health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Facility based delivery for mothers is one of the proven interventions to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. …

2016 Open Access

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Long-Term Outcomes on Antiretroviral Therapy in a Large Scale-Up Program in Nigeria

BACKGROUND: While there has been a rapid global scale-up of antiretroviral therapy programs over the past decade, there are limited …

2016 Open Access

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Human resources for health strategies adopted by providers in resource-limited settings to sustain long-term delivery of ART: a mixed-methods study from Uganda

BACKGROUND: Human resources for health (HRH) constraints are a major barrier to the sustainability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale-up programs …

2016 Open Access