Browsing by Research Centre "Institute for Global Health and Development"
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Understanding fragility: Implications for global health research and practice
(Oxford University Press, 2019-12-10)Advances in population health outcomes risk being slowed—and potentially reversed—by a range of threats increasingly presented as ‘fragility’. Widely used and critiqued within the development arena, the concept is ... -
Health system resilience in the face of crisis: Analysing the challenges, strategies and capacities for UNRWA in Syria
(Oxford University Press, 2019-10-18)Health system resilience reflects the ability to continue service delivery in the face of extraordinary shocks. We examined the case of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and its delivery of services to ... -
Addressing challenges in tuberculosis adherence via performance-based payments for integrated case management: Protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial in Georgia
(BMC, 2019-08-28)Background: Tuberculosis is one of the greatest global health concerns and disease management is challenging particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Despite improvements in addressing this epidemic in Georgia, ... -
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 ... -
Integration or isolation? Refugees’ social connections and wellbeing
(Oxford University Press, 2019-06-29)The Indicators of Integration framework—a conceptual framework defining core domains of refugee integration—has had a significant impact on the discourse surrounding refugee integration and a major role in shaping policy, ... -
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 ... -
Decreased awakening cortisol over the course of humanitarian aid deployment is associated with stress-related symptoms: A prospective cohort study
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-10)Background: Internationally deployed humanitarian aid (HA) workers are at risk for traumatic and chronic stress, and consequently stress-related psychopathology. Therefore, HA deployment may lead to long-term changes in ... -
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 ... -
Developing a socio-ecological model of dietary behaviour for people living with diabetes or high blood glucose levels in urban Nepal: A qualitative investigation
(PLOS, 2019-03-25)Instances of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes are on the rise globally leading to greater morbidity and mortality, with the greatest burden in low and middle income countries [LMIC]. A major contributing factor ... -
Effectiveness of interventions to support the early detection of skin cancer through skin self‐examination: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
(Wiley, 2019-02-14)Background: As skin cancer incidence rises, there is a need to evaluate early detection interventions by the public using skin self‐examination (SSE); however, the literature focuses on primary prevention. No systematic ... -
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 - ...