Patient-experience during delivery in public health facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Using paired cultural modelling and cultural consensus analysis to maximize programme suitability in local contexts.
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Cultural consensus analysis (CCA) is a quantitative method for determining cohesion in a specified cultural domain and cultural modelling (CM) is a method for designing and testing connections within a cultural domain based on qualitative data collection. After a description of the methods, and examples of their application, we provide a descriptio...
Migration and investments in the health of children left behind: the role of remittances in children's healthcare utiliz...
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Remittances, financial support from family members who have migrated for work, are an increasingly important source of income for households left behind in many lower- and middle-income countries. While remittances have been shown to affect the health status of children left behind, evidence is very limited as to whether and how they affect childre...
Use of evidence and negotiation in the review of national standard treatment guidelines and essential medicines list: ex...
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Understanding how countries review their national standard treatment guidelines (STGs) and essential medicines list (EML) is important in the light of ever-changing trends in public health and evidence supporting the selection and use of medicines in disease management. This study examines the 2017 STGs and EML review process, the actors involved a...
Inequalities in the benefits of national health insurance on financial protection from out-of-pocket payments and access...
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A central pillar of universal health coverage (UHC) is to achieve financial protection from catastrophic health expenditure. There are concerns, however, that national health insurance programmes with premiums may not benefit impoverished groups. In 2003, Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African country to introduce a National Health Insurance Sc...
Determinants of health insurance enrolment in Ghana: evidence from three national household surveys.
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In 2003, Ghana implemented a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to move towards Universal Health Coverage. NHIS enrolment is mandatory for all Ghanaians, but the most recent estimates show that coverage stands under 40%. The evidence on the relationship between socio-economic characteristics and NHIS enrolment is mixed, and comes mainly from s...
Patient-experience during delivery in public health facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
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In India, most women now delivery in hospitals or other facilities, however, maternal and neonatal mortality remains stubbornly high. Studies have shown that mistreatment causes delays in care-seeking, early discharge and poor adherence to post-delivery guidance. This study seeks to understand the variation of women's experiences in different level...
Are health workers reduced to being drug dispensers of antiretroviral treatment? A randomized cross-sectional assessment...
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High quality of care (QoC) for antiretroviral treatment (ART) is essential to prevent treatment failure. Uganda, as many sub-Saharan African countries, increased access to ART by decentralizing provision to districts. However, little is known whether this rapid scale-up maintained high-quality clinical services. We assess the quality of ART in the ...
A systems perspective on the importance of global health strategy developments for accomplishing today's Sustainable Dev...
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Priority setting within health systems has not led to accountable, fair and sustainable solutions to improving population health. Providers, users and other stakeholders each have their own health and service priorities based on selected evidence, own values, expertise and preferences. Based on a historical account, this article analyses if contemp...
10 years of China's comprehensive health reform: a systems perspective.
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