Browsing by Research Centre "Institute for Global Health and Development"
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Health system strengthening—Reflections on its meaning, assessment, and our state of knowledge
(Wiley, 2019-08-06)Comprehensive reviews of health system strengthening (HSS) interventions are rare, partly because of lack of clarity on definitions of the term but also the potentially huge scale of the evidence. We reflect on the process ... -
The political economy of results-based financing: The experience of the health system in Zimbabwe
(Springer Nature, 2019-07-15)Background: Since 2000, results based financing (RBF) has proliferated in health sectors in Africa in particular, including in fragile and conflict affected settings (FCAS) and there is a growing but still contested ... -
How to improve organisational staff support? Suggestions from humanitarian workers in South Sudan
(Wolters Kluwer - Medknow, 2019-06-28)Humanitarian workers experience high symptom burdens of common mental health problems. This requires action from the organisations they are employed with. However, many studies have documented continuing weaknesses in ... -
‘Water is life’: developing community participation for clean water in rural South Africa
(BMJ, 2019-06-11)Background South Africa is a semiarid country where 5 million people, mainly in rural areas, lack access to water. Despite legislative and policy commitments to the right to water, cooperative governance and public ... -
Health systems research in fragile settings
(World Health Organization, 2019-06-01)Population health indicators have improved in recent decades. Deaths in children younger than five years have declined from over 16 million in 1970 to around 5 million in 2016 and life expectancy at birth has increased ... -
The role of a trauma-sensitive football group in the recovery of survivors of torture
(International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims, 2019-05-22)Introduction: Whilst there is some preliminary evidence for the benefits of sports-related interventions for survivors of torture, there remains a need to understand better how sport and exercise can contribute to the ... -
Short‐ and longer‐term impacts of Child Friendly Space Interventions in Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement, Uganda
(Wiley, 2019-05-20)Background The establishment of Child Friendly Spaces (CFSs) has become a widespread intervention targeting protection and support for displaced children in humanitarian contexts. There is a lack of evidence of impact of ... -
Child friendly spaces impact across five humanitarian settings: A meta-analysis
(BMC, 2019-05-15)Background: Humanitarian crises present major threats to the wellbeing of children. These threats include risks of violence, abduction and abuse, emotional distress and the disruption of development. Humanitarian response ... -
The myth of the 1-day training: The effectiveness of psychosocial support capacity-building during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-05-07)Background - In emergencies and resource-poor settings, non-specialists are increasingly being trained to provide psychosocial support to people in distress, with Psychological First Aid (PFA) one of the most widely-used ... -
Health financing in fragile and conflict-affected settings: What do we know, seven years on?
(Elsevier, 2019-04-19)Over the last few years, there has been growing attention to health systems research in fragile and conflict-affected setting (FCAS) from both researchers and donors. In 2012, an exploratory literature review was conducted ... -
Validity of hepatitis B and hepatitis C case definitions
(Elsevier, 2019-02-13)Background: Globally, an estimated 257 million people are living with chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection and an estimated 71 million people with the chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV). The true public health dimensions and ... -
(How) does RBF strengthen strategic purchasing of health care? Comparing the experience of Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(BioMed Central, 2019-01-31)Background - Results-Based Financing (RBF) has proliferated in health sectors of low and middle income countries, especially fragile and conflict-affected ones, and has been presented as a way of reforming and strengthening ... -
Assessment of hypertension management and control: A registry-based observational study in two municipalities in Cuba
(BioMed Central, 2019-01-30)Background - To determine the prevalence of hypertension treatment and control among hypertensive patients in the Cuban municipalities of Cardenas and Santiago and to explore the main associated predictors. Methods - ... -
What, why and how do health systems learn from one another? Insights from eight low- and middle-income country case studies
(BioMed Central, 2019-01-21)Background - All health systems struggle to meet health needs within constrained resources. This is especially true for low-income countries. It is critical that they can learn from wider contexts in order to improve their ... -
Community and health staff perceptions on non-communicable disease management in primary care in El Salvador: A qualitative study
(2019)This dataset pertains to a qualitative study examining community perceptions related to the management of non-communicable diseases in El Salvador. During different periods of 2018, three complementary qualitative data ... -
Delivering reproductive health services through non-state providers in Pakistan: Understanding the value for money of different approaches
(BioMed Central, 2018-12-04)Background - Delivering Reproductive Health Results(DRHR) programme used social franchising (SF) and social marketing (SM) approaches to increase the supply of high quality family planning services in underserved areas ... -
A prospective cohort study on injuries among intensively physically active high school students
(Wiley, 2018-12-02)BACKGROUND - The leading cause of nonfatal injuries in age group 14‐19 is sports injuries. Purpose of the study was to determine the association between intense physical activity and injury and to identify the circumstances ... -
Understanding HRH recruitment in post-conflict settings: an analysis of central-level policies and processes in Timor-Leste (1999–2018)
(BioMed Central, 2018-11-29)Background - Although human resources for health (HRH) represent a critical element for health systems, many countries still face acute HRH challenges. These challenges are compounded in conflict-affected settings where ... -
Understanding key drivers of performance in the provision of maternal health services in Eastern Cape, South Africa: A systems analysis using group model building
(BioMed Central, 2018-11-29)Background: The Eastern Cape Province reports among the poorest health service indicators in South Africa with some of its districts standing out as worst performing as regards maternal health indicators. To understand key ...