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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"health systems strengthening"”.
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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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Attrition amongst Emergency Medicine Registrars in the Western Cape: an exploration of contributing factors
… Africa and Africa, which negatively affects health systems strengthening. Factors relating to attrition of registrars in the EM training program in the Western Cape had not previously been explored. Understanding these factors will enable the development of a framework to be used to conduct …
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Men who Care: men’s motivations in taking up positions in community mobilisation organizations in Gugulethu to improve the public healthcare system
… - compared to NGOs or external support systems that may try do social development work in SA. There is a great opportunity to include more men in community mobilisation (CM) work and health systems strengthening programs in SA and beyond. Historically, volunteer work, including CM has …
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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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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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Competencies and applicability of the Master of Public Health (MPH) qualification. A qualitative study of graduates from South African Universities
… pandemic underscored the critical role of public health professionals in mitigating the crisis and exposed significant weaknesses in global healthcare systems. Graduates with Master of Public Health (MPH) degrees and other public health qualifications played pivotal roles in pandemic response, …
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Civil society's role in health system monitoring and strengthening : evidence from Khayelitsha, South Africa
… civil society has played a key role within the health system, including advocating for equitable and quality health care services. The purpose of this research is to explore the implementation of a pilot health systems strengthening intervention in primary health facilities in Khayelitsha, South …
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Developing a manualised task-sharing counselling intervention for perinatal common mental disorders in the South African context
… support for these conditions in public health facilities. The aim of this study was to report on the development of a maternal mental health counselling intervention for routine treatment of mild to moderate symptoms of depression and anxiety for primary healthcare in South Africa, as …
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Centering Primary Health Care (PHC) Nurses' experiences in their practice of policy implementation - TB diagnostic policy reform in the Western Cape, South Africa
… (GeneXpert) diagnostic technology into the health system, as a case to assess the extent to which software issues - particularly the human qualities of the system – mediates policy implementation. It centres the experiences of frontline workers in local implementation contexts as imperative …
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A qualitative study on the experiences and perspectives of public sector patients in Cape Town in managing the workload of demands of HIV and type 2 diabetes co-morbidity
Health systems' strengthening is essential in South Africa in an era of the convergence of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Whilst TB is ranked first in all-cause mortality, non-communicable diseases which include cerebrovascular disease and diabetes mellitus follow; with HIV/AIDS in …
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Harmonizing core competencies for Master of Public Health Training programmes in Africa
Africa faces numerous health challenges, including high burdens of diseases and fragile health which hinder efforts to prevent, address, mitigate, and control these health challenges. The skills taught in MPH programs are recognized globally as being crucial to addressing these challenges and …
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IMPROVING DISTRICT HEALTH MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE: A NEW FRAMEWORK WITH TOOLS FOR SITUATION ANALYSIS
… Special efforts have gone into achieving the health-related MDGs. Early in the process, many realized that health systems in poor countries would have to be strengthened to deliver the services necessary to achieving the MDGs. Recently it has also become clear that to make health systems …
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In-depth enquiry into the implementation of a large-scale social health protection scheme in the context of the drive towards universal health coverage in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
BACKGROUND: In the wake of Goal 3 (ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages) of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the resulting push for Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Pakistan’s Federal and Provincial Governments launched three large-scale social health …