Politiques et systèmes de santé

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A case study on building capacity to improve clinical mentoring and maternal child health in rural Tanzania: the path to implementation

BACKGROUND: Tanzania is a low income, East African country with a severe shortage of human resources for health or health …

2017 Open Access

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Determinants and the impact of the National Health Insurance on neonatal mortality in Ghana

The national health insurance was established to increase access to health care services and the maternal component was later introduced …

2017 Open Access

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Health Financing in Transition : Toward a Unified and Output-Oriented Provider Payment System in Tanzania

2018 Open Access

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Devolution and its effects on health workforce and commodities management – early implementation experiences in Kilifi County, Kenya

BACKGROUND: Decentralisation is argued to promote community participation, accountability, technical efficiency, and equity in the management of resources, and has …

2017 Open Access

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Progressive Pathway to Universal Health Coverage in Tanzania : A Call for Preferential Resource Allocation Targeting the Poor

2018 Open Access

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Changing patterns of cataract services in North-West Nigeria: 2005–2016

PURPOSE: This study was conducted to assess the impact of the eye care programme on cataract blindness and cataract surgical …

2017 Open Access

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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, …

2017 Open Access

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Implementing the WHO integrated tool to assess quality of care for mothers, newborns and children: results and lessons learnt from five districts in Malawi

BACKGROUND: In 2014 the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a new tool to be used to assess the quality of …

2017 Open Access

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Cost-effectiveness of an electronic clinical decision support system for improving quality of antenatal and childbirth care in rural Tanzania: an intervention study

BACKGROUND: QUALMAT project aimed at improving quality of maternal and newborn care in selected health care facilities in three African …

2017 Open Access

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Setting performance-based financing in the health sector agenda: a case study in Cameroon

BACKGROUND: More than 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have introduced performance-based financing (PBF) in their healthcare systems. Yet, there has …

2017 Open Access

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Recentralization within decentralization: County hospital autonomy under devolution in Kenya

BACKGROUND: In 2013, Kenya transitioned into a devolved system of government with a central government and 47 semi-autonomous county governments. …

2017 Open Access

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Midwives’ and patients’ perspectives on disrespect and abuse during labor and delivery care in Ethiopia: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND: It is increasingly recognized that disrespect and abuse of women during labor and delivery is a violation of a …

2017 Open Access

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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 …

2017 Open Access

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Determining the efficacy of national strategies aimed at addressing the challenges facing health personnel working in rural areas in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

BACKGROUND: Shortages of Human Resources for Health (HRH) in rural areas are often driven by poor working and living conditions, …

2017 Open Access

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A process evaluation exploring the lay counsellor experience of delivering a task shared psycho-social intervention for perinatal depression in Khayelitsha, South Africa

BACKGROUND: Task sharing of psycho-social interventions for perinatal depression has been shown to be feasible, acceptable and effective in low …

2017 Open Access

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Understanding the state of health policy and systems research in West Africa and capacity strengthening needs: scoping of peer-reviewed publications trends and patterns 1990–2015

BACKGROUND: The need for locally-driven, locally-generated evidence to guide health policy and systems decision-making and implementation in West Africa remains …

2017 Open Access

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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