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Showing 1 to 20 of 373 for “"health systems"”.
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Health Systems Integration: Competing or Shared Mental Models?
For over two decades, health services researchers and managers have focused on improving integration between organizations and levels of care. Yet, healthcare systems capable of delivering integrated care have not developed widely. This dissertation argues that structural and process strategies for …
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Making decisions about the future of health systems
Introduction: Sustainability of health interventions in developing countries has been limitedby the capacities of their health systems. As a result, efforts have been invested by theinternational community to make health systems thinking coherent.Aim: To examine the sustainability of a health …
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Organizational Culture in Children's Mental Health Systems of Care
… the organization culture of successful, holistic systems of care that involve the coordination of multiple agencies, such as child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health and education. Data collected from the three system-of-care sites selected for participation in Case Studies of System …
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Health systems determinants of maternal and neonatal health in Rwanda
Contains fulltext : 209057.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Health systems thinking : the need for a more critical approach
… to bring more insights and added value to health systems thinking using systems ideas. It inquires about the current state of health systems thinking, analyses different strengths of alternative systems approaches, and suggests what systems thinking can offer in order to improve the current …
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The Cuban Experience: Comparative of Health Systems and Infant Mortality Rates
… country that spends billions of dollars for its healthcare sector, there are still many risk factors that highly influence our country’s respectively high infant mortality rates. Infant mortality rates are affected by a range of social determinants of health, low birth weight, and racial …
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Integration of palliative care in African health systems: a systematic review
… a human right and the ethical responsibility of health systems. This has resulted in increased international focus and a call to integrate palliative care into health systems to promote access, and inversely to strengthen health systems. Yet how to do this in low-and-middle income countries is …
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Migration and Health Systems performance in low- and middle- income countries
… is one of the main challenges impacting on health system performance. The World Health Organisation (WHO) framed responsiveness, fair financing, and equity as the intrinsic goals of a health system. In line with this framework, we attempted to map existing research on migration and health …
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Variations in Quality Outcomes Among Hospitals in Different Types of Health Systems
… performance across different types of hospital systems, there has been no systematic study of variations in patient quality of care or safety indicators across different systems. Our study examines whether five main types of health systems - centralized (CHS), centralized physician/insurance …
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Health of Afghan Refugees in Iran and Germany – Population and Health Systems Perspectives
… in equitably addressing the general and healthcare needs of refugee populations, which may differ from the needs of citizens. Addressing these needs promptly and accurately necessitates precise observation and systematic data collection on the health and overall living conditions of these …
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Towards a Framework for the Monitoring and Evaluation of Collaborative Learning Health Systems
… aimed to explore how Collaborative Learning Health Systems (CLHSs) are being monitored and evaluated. The research questions are: (1) “What dimensions are used to monitor and evaluate CLHSs?” and (2) “What metrics are used to operationalize the dimensions for monitoring and evaluating CLHSs?” …
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How Urban Nature Shapes Health: Unravelling the Spatial Complexity of Nature-Health Systems
… nature is recognised as a key Determinant of Health, yet existing research often relies on linear, aspatial approaches that overlook how Health Outcomes emerge from complex, interdependent processes, whose effects vary across space. This thesis adopts a spatial complexity lens and a …
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Health systems and social values: the case of the South African health system
Health systems are complex social systems – driven by people and the relationships between them, characterised by feedback loops and path-dependency, and open to contextual influences. This entails that social values are an important determinant of health system change. In addition, health systems …
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Factors influencing dignity in sub-Saharan African health systems: a qualitative systematic review
… many national constitutions globally. The World Health Organization, along with corresponding United Nations agencies, have also regularly identified dignity as a guiding principle for health systems, service provision, and reform, as dignity is commonly used to measure or achieve quality, …
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The Development of Post-Soviet Health Systems: A Mixed Methods Historical Case Study
… countries embarked on various trajectories of health system development, some more successfully than others. Several countries throughout the region, limited by political and economic constraints, continue to struggle with health systems strengthening, leading to negative downstream effects on …
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Improving health care provider - health committee working relationships for responsive, people-centred health systems
… structures in the service delivery of primary health care, health committees can promote the quality, accessibility and responsiveness of service delivery. More specifically, health committees provide a platform for community members to advocate for their health needs and meaningfully …
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Health systems appraisal of a primary health care services appointment system in Cape Town
… dissatisfied with their waiting times at public health services in Cape Town (3-6). In order to reduce waiting times and improve service efficiency, some community health centres (CHCs) in Cape Town have implemented a booking/appointment system which hitherto has been lacking. As part of an …
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Analysing health systems responses to forced migration through the complementary lenses of resilience and responsiveness
… seekers and refugees (ASR) in social and welfare systems across Europe, including health systems. The German health system has been slow to learn from previous periods of high in-migration of ASR, such as the early 1990s. In the light of continued migration, it is important to understand factors …
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Strengthening health systems through eHealth: two mixed-methods case studies at 10 facilities in Malawi
… International agencies such as the World Health Organisation have highlighted the potential of digital information and communications technologies to strengthen health systems, which are underpinned by the ‘building blocks’ of information, human resources, finances, commodities, leadership …
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Health systems constraints and facilitators of national immunization programs in low- and middle- income countries
Like most health interventions, National Immunization Programs (NIPs) are embedded within health systems. This means that NIPs and health systems exist in a constant interaction. Vaccine preventable diseases are widely recognized as the chief cause of morbidity, disability and mortality worldwide …
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