Browsing by Research Centre "Institute for Global Health and Development"
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The effect of Psychological First Aid training on knowledge and understanding about psychosocial support principles; a cluster-randomized controlled trial
(MDPI, 2020-01-11)Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a world-wide implemented approach to helping people affected by an emergency, disaster or other adverse event. Controlled evaluations of PFA’s training effects are lacking. We evaluated ... -
Opportunities and challenges for delivering non-communicable disease management and services in fragile and post-conflict settings: Perceptions of policy-makers and health providers in Sierra Leone
(BMC, 2020-01-06)Background: The growing burden of non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries presents substantive challenges for health systems. This is also the case in fragile, post-conflict and post-Ebola Sierra ... -
Lessons learnt conducting minimally invasive autopsies in private mortuaries as part of HIV and tuberculosis research in South Africa
(International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2019-12-21)Current estimates of the burden of tuberculosis (TB) disease and cause-specific mortality in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive people rely heavily on indirect methods that are less reliable for ascertaining ... -
IMPACT study on intervening with a manualised package to achieve treatment adherence in people with tuberculosis: Protocol paper for a mixed-methods study, including a pilot randomised controlled trial
(BMJ, 2019-12-17)Introduction Compared with the rest of the UK and Western Europe, England has high rates of the infectious disease tuberculosis (TB). TB is curable, although treatment is for at least 6 months and longer when disease is ... -
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 ... -
Algorithm-guided empirical tuberculosis treatment for people with advanced HIV (TB Fast Track): An open-label, cluster-randomised trial
(Elsevier, 2019-11-11)Background Tuberculosis, which is often undiagnosed, is the major cause of death among HIV-positive people. We aimed to test whether the use of a clinical algorithm enabling the initiation of empirical tuberculosis treatment ... -
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 ... -
Cross-border dynamics and healthcare in West Nile, Uganda
(Social Science in Humanitarian Action, 2019-07)Against the backdrop of on-going preparedness work in Uganda as related to the outbreak of Ebola in DRC, this brief summarises key considerations concerning cross-border dynamics and health structures and behaviours in the ... -
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 ... -
Cryptococcal-related mortality despite fluconazole preemptive treatment in a cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) screen-and-treat programme
(Oxford University Press, 2019-06-08)Background. Cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) screening and treatment with preemptive fluconazole reduces the incidence of clinically evident cryptococcal meningitis in individuals living with advanced human immunodeficiency ... -
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 ...