Toward a contextualized research agenda: Governance challenges of the wastewater treatment policy in Mexico and the role...
status: published
The '4th 90' target as a strategy to improve health-related quality of life of people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Afr...
Objectives Next to monitoring the clinical health of people living with HIV through the triple 90 targets, a 4th 90 target was proposed in 2016 to improve HIV health-related quality of life (HrQoL) by addressing comorbidities and other psychosocial challenges. This scoping review aimed at understanding related psychosocial determinants, including s...
Regulating Over-indebtedness: Local State Power in Cambodia's Microfinance Market
10.1111/dech.12620 / DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE / 51 / 6 / 1429-1453
World City-ness in a historical perspective: Probing the long-term evolution of the Jakarta metropolitan area
status: published
Doing comparative research on local politics : at a crossroads between inertia and innovation
This article tries to build a case for more rigorous and systematic comparative research on local politics. Discussing the opportunities and obstacles often associated with this approach, it attempts to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the field. The article distinguishes between three phases: the first two can be summarised as addressing the...
World City-ness in a historical perspective : probing the long-term evolution of the Jakarta metropolitan area
Most studies in the ‘world cities’ literature tend to frame the global connectivity of cities in the context of a specific form of globalization that began unfolding in the 1970s (i.e. the ‘new international division of labor’). In this paper, we argue for the need to frame the global connectivity of cities in long-term urban trajectories across di...
Centres de Gestion de la Fonction Publique Territoriale : étude comparée des perceptions des équipes de direction (top m...
Le service public local connait des évolutions sous l’effet de la décentralisation. Les compétences et les conditions de sa mise en oeuvre impactent les besoins des employeurs publics et modifient l’activité des Centres de Gestion. Ces établissements publics administratifs spécialisés sont amenés à travailler ensemble à travers la Charte Régionale ...
Insights of health district managers on the implementation of primary health care outreach teams in Johannesburg, South ...
Published in Human Resources for Health
BackgroundPrimary health care (PHC) outreach teams are part of a policy of PHC re-engineering in South Africa. It attempts to move the deployment of community health workers (CHWs) from vertical programmes into an integrated generalised team-based approach to care for defined populations in municipal wards. There has little evaluation of PHC outrea...
Large Reductions In Amenable Mortality Associated With Brazil's Primary Care Expansion And Strong Health Governance.
Published in Health affairs (Project Hope)
Strong health governance is key to universal health coverage. However, the relationship between governance and health system performance is underexplored. We investigated whether expansion of the Brazilian Estratégia de Saúde da Família (ESF; family health strategy), a community-based primary care program, reduced amenable mortality (mortality avoi...
Implementation of antiretroviral therapy for life in pregnant/Breastfeeding HIV+ women (Option B+) alongside rollout and...
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Background: Lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) for pregnant and breastfeeding women (Option B+) was rolled out in Zimbabwe from 2014, with simultaneous raising of the CD4 treatment threshold to 500 cells per cubic millimeter in nonpregnant/breastfeeding adults and children 5 years and over. Methods: Lablite is an implementation project in Zimbab...
