• Improving mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in humanitarian settings: Reflections on research funded through R2HC 

  Tol, Wietse A.; Ager, Alastair; Bizouerne, Cecile; Bryant, Richard; El Chammay, Rabih; Colebunders, Robert; García-Moreno, Claudia; Hamdani, Syed Usman; James, Leah E.; Jansen, Stefan C. J.; Leku, Marx R.; Likindikoki, Samuel; Panter-Brick, Catherine; Pluess, Michael; Robinson, Courtland; Ruttenberg, Leontien; Savage, Kevin; Welton-Mitchell, Courtney; Hall, Brian J.; Harper Shehadeh, Melissa; Harmer, Anne; van Ommeren, Mark (BioMed Central, 2020-10-30)

  Major knowledge gaps remain concerning the most effective ways to address mental health and psychosocial needs of populations affected by humanitarian crises. The Research for Health in Humanitarian Crisis (R2HC) program ...

• ‘It has become everybody’s business and nobody’s business’: Policy actor perspectives on the implementation of TB infection prevention and control (IPC) policies in South African public sector primary care health facilities 

  Colvin, Christopher; Kallon, Idriss; Swartz, Alison; MacGregor, Hayley; Kielmann, Karina; Grant, Alison D. (Taylor & Francis, 2020-11-08)

  South Africa is increasingly offering screening, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB), and especially drug-resistant TB, at the primary care level. Nosocomial transmission of TB within primary health facilities is ...

• Prevalence of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder among Ebola survivors in northern Sierra Leone: A cross-sectional study 

  Bah, Abdulai Jawo; James, Peter Bai; Bah, Nuhu; Sesay, Amara Bangali; Sevalie, Stephen; Kanu, Joseph Sam (BioMed Central, 2020-09-11)

  Abstract: Background: There is limited data available on the long-term mental health impact of Ebola virus disease (EVD) on survivors despite the disease experience of survivors meeting the criteria of a traumatic event ...

• Providing healthcare to Ebola survivors: A qualitative exploratory investigation of healthcare providers' views and experiences in Sierra Leone 

  James, Peter Bai; Wardle, Jon; Steel, Amie; Adams, Jon; Bah, Abdulai Jawo; Sevalie, Stephen (Taylor & Francis, 2020-05-07)

  Although the experiences of healthcare workers regarding caring for Ebola patients during the West African Ebola outbreak have been explored, little is known about healthcare workers' experiences in providing care to Ebola ...

• Employment based health financing does not support gender equity in universal health coverage 

  Vijayasingham, Lavanya; Govender, Veloshnee; Witter, Sophie; Remme, Michelle (BMJ Publishing Group, 2020-10-27)

  Health financing and entitlement systems linked to employment can disadvantage women, argue Lavanya Vijayasingham and colleagues

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