Ray, Shomik Neogi, Sutapa B Singh, Ranjana Devasenapathy, Niveditha Zodpey, Sanjay
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Anaemia in pregnancy is a public health concern because it is strongly associated with maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. An open label randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted in India across four government medical colleges, comparing intravenous (IV) iron sucrose and oral iron for the treatment of anaemia in pregnancy. This R...
Cleary, Susan
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Health systems strengthening (HSS) is firmly on the global health and development agenda. While a growing evidence base seeks to understand the effectiveness of HSS, there is limited evidence regarding cost and cost-effectiveness. Without such evidence, it is hard to argue that HSS represents value for money and the level of investment needed canno...
Koon, Adam D Hawkins, Benjamin Mayhew, Susannah H
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In 2004, President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya refused to sign a popular Bill on National Social Health Insurance into law. Drawing on innovations in framing theory, this research provides a social explanation for this decision. In addition to document review, this study involved interpretive analysis of transcripts from 50 semi-structured interviews with...
Bikker, Annemieke P Lesmana, Cokorda Bagus Jaya Tiliopoulos, Niko
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In 2014, the Indonesian government passed the Mental Health Act (MHA) to address the country's complex mental health situation. The implementation of the MHA has been slow, and little is known about how the MHA is perceived by mental healthcare providers within local settings. This study aimed to obtain insight into psychiatrists' views on the MHA,...
Croke, Kevin
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Ethiopia's expansion of primary health care over the past 15 years has been hailed as a model in sub-Saharan Africa. A leader closely associated with the programme, Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, is now Director-General of the World Health Organization, and the global movement for expansion of primary health care often cites Ethiopia as a model. Starti...
Pulkki-Brännström, Anni-Maria Haghparast-Bidgoli, Hassan Batura, Neha Colbourn, Tim Azad, Kishwar Banda, Florida Banda, Lumbani Borghi, Josephine Fottrell, Edward Kim, Sungwook
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WHO recommends participatory learning and action cycles with women's groups as a cost-effective strategy to reduce neonatal deaths. Coverage is a determinant of intervention effectiveness, but little is known about why cost-effectiveness estimates vary significantly. This article reanalyses primary cost data from six trials in India, Nepal, Banglad...
Ansbro, Éimhín Garry, Sylvia Karir, Veena Reddy, Amulya Jobanputra, Kiran Fardous, Taissir Sadique, Zia
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The Syrian conflict has caused enormous displacement of a population with a high non-communicable disease (NCD) burden into surrounding countries, overwhelming health systems' NCD care capacity. Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) developed a primary-level NCD programme, serving Syrian refugees and the host population in Irbid, Jordan, to assist the res...
Kiros, Mizan Dessie, Ermias Jbaily, Abdulrahman Tolla, Mieraf Taddesse Johansson, Kjell Arne Norheim, Ole F Memirie, Solomon Tessema Verguet, Stéphane
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In Ethiopia, little is known about the extent of out-of-pocket health expenditures and the associated financial hardships at national and regional levels. We estimated the incidence of both catastrophic and impoverishing health expenditures using data from the 2015/16 Ethiopian household consumption and expenditure and welfare monitoring surveys. W...
Liverani, Marco Ir, Por Jacobs, Bart Asante, Augustine Jan, Stephen Leang, Supheap Man, Nicola Hayen, Andrew Wiseman, Virginia
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In low- and middle-income countries, patients may travel abroad to seek better health services or treatments that are not available at home, especially in regions where great disparities exist between the standard of care in neighbouring countries. While awareness of South-South medical travels has increased, only a few studies investigated this ph...
Vargas, Ingrid Eguiguren, Pamela Mogollón-Pérez, Amparo-Susana Bertolotto, Fernando Samico, Isabella López, Julieta De Paepe, Pierre Vázquez, María-Luisa
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Healthcare coordination is considered key to improving care quality. Although participatory action research (PAR) has been used effectively to bridge the gap between evidence and practice in other areas, little is known about the key success factors of its use in healthcare organizations. This article analyses the factors influencing the implementa...
