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Continuous quality improvement as a tool to implement evidence-informed problem solving: experiences from the district and health facility level in Uganda
BACKGROUND: Continuous quality improvement processes in health care were developed for use at health facility level, and that is where …
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Maternal death surveillance and response in Tanzania: comprehensiveness of narrative summaries and action points from maternal death reviews
BACKGROUND: Maternal deaths reviews are proposed as one strategy to address high maternal mortality in low and middle-income countries, including …
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Shared decision-making between health care providers and patients at a tertiary hospital diabetic Clinic in Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Patients' participation in decision making regarding their treatment is defined in ethical, legal and human rights standards in the …
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A qualitative study to identify critical attributes and attribute-levels for a discrete choice experiment on oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) delivery among young people in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa
BACKGROUND: The uptake and adherence of daily oral PrEP has been poor in high-risk populations in South Africa including young …
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Spatial clusters distribution and modelling of health care autonomy among reproductive‐age women in Ethiopia: spatial and mixed‐effect logistic regression analysis
BACKGROUND: While millions of women in many African countries have little autonomy in health care decision-making, in most low and …
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Application of systems dynamics and group model building to identify barriers and facilitators to acute care delivery in a resource limited setting
BACKGROUND: Group model building (GMB) is a method to facilitate shared understanding of structures and relationships that determine system behaviors. …
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Cost‐effectiveness of intensive care for hospitalized COVID-19 patients: experience from South Africa
BACKGROUND: Given projected shortages of critical care capacity in public hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, the South African government embarked …
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A microplanning model to improve door-to-door health service delivery: the case of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in Sub-Saharan African villages
BACKGROUND: Malaria incidence has plateaued in Sub-Saharan Africa despite Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention's (SMC) introduction. Community health workers (CHW) use a …
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Patterns and patient factors associated with loss to follow-up in the Muhimbili sickle cell cohort, Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Monitoring patient's clinical attendance is a crucial means of improving retention in care and treatment programmes. Sickle cell patients' …
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An assessment of a ‘training-of-trainers programme for clinic committees’ in a South African district: a qualitative exploratory study
BACKGROUND: In South Africa (SA), clinics and community health centres are the predominant primary level health care facilities in the …
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A needs assessment for postgraduate training in selected public health disciplines: evidence from health services organisations in Lusaka, Zambia
BACKGROUND: As most low and middle-income countries seek to achieve universal health coverage targets, there is an ever-increasing need to …
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“Vital”: HIV counselling and testing staff’s views of addressing mental health with HIV in Uganda
BACKGROUND: Mental health is linked to HIV outcomes, including linkage into care and adherence to medication. Integrated care for mental …
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Using the critical path method to rollout and optimise new PMTCT guidelines to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Zimbabwe: a descriptive analysis
BACKGROUND: Achievement of the elimination target for mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV in selected countries has increased hope to end …
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Acceptability of point-of-care viral load testing to facilitate differentiated care: a qualitative assessment of people living with HIV and nurses in South Africa
BACKGROUND: Providing viral load (VL) results to people living with HIV (PLHIV) on antiretroviral therapy (ART) remains a challenge in …
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Assessment of immunization data quality of routine reports in Ho municipality of Volta region, Ghana
BACKGROUND: Immunization has been an important public health intervention for preventing and reducing child morbidity and mortality over the years …
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An assessment of hospital maternal health services in northern Ghana: a cross-sectional survey
BACKGROUND: Access to and delivery of comprehensive emergency obstetric and neonatal care (CEmONC) services are often weak in low and …
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Does the type of health insurance enrollment affect provider choice, utilization and health care expenditures?
BACKGROUND: Two of the objectives of Universal Health Coverage are equity in access to health services and protection from financial …
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Impact of ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory accreditation in sub-Saharan Africa: a case study
BACKGROUND: The number and severity of nonconformities generated during an audit of a medicine testing laboratory indicates its level of …
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Translation, cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Ghanaian language (Akan; Asante Twi) version of the Health Literacy Questionnaire
BACKGROUND: Patients' competencies and resources to manage their own health, which is termed health literacy, is a necessity for better …
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Design of a care pathway for pharmacy-based PrEP delivery in Kenya: results from a collaborative stakeholder consultation
INTRODUCTION: In Kenya, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention is almost exclusively delivered at HIV clinics. Developing novel PrEP delivery …