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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Health Systems Research"”.
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Occupations of citizenship : the missing layer in empowered engagement between rural people with disabilities and primary healthcare workers in South Africa
… rural areas of South Africa struggle to access healthcare, despite the right to health established by the Constitution and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Health system challenges and structural conditions of poverty impact this group in specific ways, …
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A historiography of South Africa's public health care governance affecting health system strength from the 1940s to 2023
… labour and various forms of racist economic, health and land policies entrenched deliberate social disintegration in the country. The political economy formalised the maldistribution of health by ensuring the expansion of debilitating diseases like tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS throughout the …
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Exploring patient-related contextual factors and personal reflections about patient engagement in the Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) intervention: A mixed methods study among adults with advanced cancer in Southern Alberta
… outside of family/friends, and decline in health status. Patients directly referred to CALM by healthcare providers (HCP) and those who self-referred (total n = 32) engaged in more CALM sessions (M = 4.97, SD = 3.51) versus those first referred to general Psychosocial Oncology (i.e., …
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Towards universal health coverage: mapping the development of the faith-based non-profit sector in the Ghanaian health system
The equitable provision of accessible quality health services and the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC) continue to be prominent on the global health agenda, yet remains an elusive target for many low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). In these contexts, the private not-for-profit …
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Understanding Cancer Treatment Delay and Survival
… modalities, methodologic considerations, and health system contexts. Objective 1 employed a three-round modified Delphi design to establish consensus-based guidance for conducting studies investigating the association of the DTI and OS. Objective 2 applied the consensus-based recommendations …
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Improving the Local Responses to HIV/Aids in Africa : Gaoua District, a case study of Burkina Faso
… years process, including some early results. The research objectives were: - first, to develop a rapid appraisal method which can be a resource for district and communities to circumscribe their needs in relation to HIV/Aids, - second, to carry out situation analyses at the community and district …
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Gender analysis: Sub-Saharan African nurses' migration experiences - a systematic review
Alleviating the global shortage of health workers, particularly nurses, is critical for health systems and health worker performance. Nurses are mostly women and make up the majority of the health workforce. Several factors have been identified as key players in the shortage crisis and migration is …
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The role of document reviews in health policy analysis among low and middle-income countries: a systematic review
Background: Health policy analysis (HPA) is a central component of health systems research (HSR) and contributes significantly to the understanding of health systems reforms including their successes and failures. In most HPA studies, document reviews feature as one of the widely used data …