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Fakes and chemicals: indigenous medicine in contemporary Kenya and implications for health equity
BACKGROUND: Access to effective biomedical treatments for humans and livestock in Kenya is far from universal. Indigenous healing has a …
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Influence of community scorecards on maternal and newborn health service delivery and utilization
INTRODUCTION: The community score card (CSC) is a participatory monitoring and evaluation tool that has been employed to strengthen the …
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Maternal health challenges experienced by adolescents; could community score cards address them? A case study of Kibuku District– Uganda
INTRODUCTION: Approximately 34.8% of the Ugandan population is adolescents. The national teenage pregnancy rate is 25% and in Kibuku district, …
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Why do some countries do better or worse in life expectancy relative to income? An analysis of Brazil, Ethiopia, and the United States of America
BACKGROUND: While in general a country's life expectancy increases with national income, some countries "punch above their weight", while some …
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Adaptation and validation of social accountability measures in the context of contraceptive services in Ghana and Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Changes in the values, attitudes, and interactions of both service users and health care providers are central to social …
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Responsiveness of health care services towards the elderly in Tanzania: does health insurance make a difference? A cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Responsiveness has become an important health system performance indicator in evaluating the ability of health care systems to meet …
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Tracking health sector priority setting processes and outcomes for human resources for health, five-years after political devolution: a county-level case study in Kenya
BACKGROUND: Health sector priority setting in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) entails balancing between a high demand and low supply …
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Trends in adolescent first births in sub-Saharan Africa: a tale of increasing inequity?
BACKGROUND: Single aggregate figures for adolescent pregnancy may fail to demonstrate particular population groups where rates are very high, or …
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Assessing and decomposing inequality of opportunity in access to child health and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from three countries with low human development index
BACKGROUND: Inequality of opportunity in health and nutrition is a major public health issue in the developing regions. This study …
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Characterizing street-connected children and youths’ social and health inequities in Kenya: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Street-connected children and youth (SCY) in Kenya disproportionately experience preventable morbidities and premature mortality. We theorize these health inequities …
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Vulnerability and agency across treatment-seeking journeys for acutely ill children: how family members navigate complex healthcare before, during and after hospitalisation in a rural Kenyan setting
BACKGROUND: Child mortality rates during hospitalisation for acute illness and after discharge are unacceptably high in many under-resourced settings. Childhood …
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Unspoken inequality: how COVID-19 has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities of asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants in South Africa
An estimated 2 million foreign-born migrants of working age (15-64) were living in South Africa (SA) in 2017. Structural and …
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Impact of maternal death reviews at a rural hospital in Zambia: a mixed methods study
BACKGROUND: Maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa remains high despite programmatic efforts to improve maternal health. In 2007, the Zambian Ministry …
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Socioeconomic differences in caesarean section – are they explained by medical need? An analysis of patient record data of a large Kenyan hospital
BACKGROUND: Caesarean section (C-section) rates are often low among the poor and very high among the better-off in low- and …
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Perceptions and experiences of frontline health managers and providers on accountability in a South African health district
OBJECTIVE: Public primary health care and district health systems play important roles in expanding healthcare access and promoting equity. This …
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Access to skilled attendant at birth and the coverage of the third dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine across 14 West African countries – an equity analysis
BACKGROUND: Universal Health Coverage (UHC) remains a critical public health goal that continues to elude many countries of the global …
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Extent of and trends in inequalities in child stunting in Sierra-Leone from 2005 to 2013: evidence from demographic and health surveys and multiple indicator cluster surveys
BACKGROUND: Comprehensive assessment of stunting disparity in Sierra-Leone has not been done so far. We aimed to document extent and …
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Intersecting inequalities, gender and adolescent health in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Until recently, global public health initiatives have tended to overlook the ways that social factors shape adolescent health, and …
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Financial risk of seeking maternal and neonatal healthcare in southern Ethiopia: a cohort study of rural households
INTRODUCTION: Ethiopian households' out-of-pocket healthcare payments constitute one-third of the national healthcare budget and are higher than the global and …
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Complete vaccination service utilization inequalities among children aged 12–23 months in Ethiopia: a multivariate decomposition analyses
BACKGROUND: Although World Health Organization works to make vaccination service available to everyone everywhere by 2030, majority of the world's …