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Government roles in regulating medical tourism: evidence from Guatemala
BACKGROUND: Regulation of the medical tourism and public health sectors overlap in many instances, raising questions of how patient safety, …
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Conclusions of the digital health hub of the Transform Africa Summit (2018): strong government leadership and public-private-partnerships are key prerequisites for sustainable scale up of digital health in Africa
BACKGROUND: The use of digital technologies to improve access to health is gaining momentum in Africa. This is more pertinent …
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An analysis of pharmacy workforce capacity in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Pharmacists are critical for attaining the goal of universal health coverage and equitable access to essential health services, particularly …
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Lest we forget, primary health care in Sub-Saharan Africa is nurse led. Is this reflected in the current health systems strengthening undertakings and initiatives?
# Background Primary health care (PHC) in most African countries is nurse led. In South Africa, PHC has a unique …
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Leveraging the power of partnerships: spreading the vision for a population health care delivery model in western Kenya
BACKGROUND: The Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) has been a model academic partnership in global health for nearly …
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Inequalities in maternal health care utilization in Benin: a population based cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Ensuring equitable access to maternal health care including antenatal, delivery, postnatal services and fertility control methods, is one of …
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Challenges in the management of cardiovascular emergencies in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case report of acute heart failure complicating infective endocarditis in a semi-urban setting in Cameroon
BACKGROUND: Infective endocarditis is a deadly disease if not promptly treated with antibiotics either in association with cardiac surgery or …
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Scaling-up strategic purchasing: analysis of health system governance imperatives for strategic purchasing in a free maternal and child healthcare programme in Enugu State, Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Significant knowledge gaps exist in the functioning of institutional designs and organisational practices in purchasing within free healthcare schemes …
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Correspondence regarding ‘Assefa Y, et al., BMC Health Services Research. 2011; 11 (1):81 and 2014; 14(1):45’: The Positive-Deviance approach for translating evidence into practice to improve patient retention in HIV care
The purpose of this correspondence is to describe how the positive-deviance approach can be used to translate evidence into practice, …
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Selling my sheep to pay for medicines – household priorities and coping strategies in a setting without universal health coverage
BACKGROUND: The first month of life is the period with the highest risk of dying. Despite knowledge of effective interventions, …
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Analysis of selected policies towards universal health coverage in Uganda: the policy implementation barometer protocol
BACKGROUND: Policy implementation remains an under researched area in most low and middle income countries and it is not surprising …
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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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Bridging the intervention-implementation gap in primary health care delivery: the critical role of integrated implementation research
For national and local leaders to achieve universal health coverage, a new approach or technique to gathering evidence and understanding …
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Progressive Pathway to Universal Health Coverage in Tanzania : A Call for Preferential Resource Allocation Targeting the Poor
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Deaths during tuberculosis treatment among paediatric patients in a large tertiary hospital in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Despite availability of effective cure, tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of death in children. In many high-burden countries, …
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Strengthening close to community provision of maternal health services in fragile settings: an exploration of the changing roles of TBAs in Sierra Leone and Somaliland
BACKGROUND: Efforts to take forward universal health coverage require innovative approaches in fragile settings, which experience particularly acute human resource …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Providers of antenatal care services in Ghana: evidence from Ghana demographic and health surveys 1988–2014
BACKGROUND: Antenatal care is one of the three most essential care - antenatal, delivery and post-natal, given to women during …