The availability of essential medicines for mental healthcare in Sofala, Mozambique.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Strengthening surgical services in resource-constrained settings is contingent on using high-quality data to inform decision making at clinical, facility, and policy levels. However, the evidence is sparse on gaps in paper-based medical record quality for surgical and obstetric patients in low-resource setti...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Lodge W,Menon G,Kuchukhidze S,Jumbam DT,Maongezi S,Alidina S,Nguhuni B,Kapologwe NA,Varallo J

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Managing cancer in a multicultural environment poses several challenges, which include the communication between the patient and the healthcare provider. Culture is an important consideration in clinical care as it contributes to shaping patients' health-related values, beliefs, and behaviours. This integrat...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Brown O,Ten Ham-Baloyi W,van Rooyen DR,Aldous C,Marais LC

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Domestic violence during pregnancy has detrimental effects on the health of the mother and the newborn. Antenatal care provides a 'window of opportunity' to identify and assist victims of domestic violence during pregnancy. Little is known about the experience, needs, and expectations from the women's perspe...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Rishal P,Joshi SK,Lukasse M,Schei B,Swahnberg K,ADVANCE Study Group.

更新日期：2016-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Legal empowerment of the poor is highly relevant to public health as it aims to relieve income poverty, a main determinant of health. The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (CLEP) has proposed legal empowerment measures in the following four domains: access to justice and the rule of law, property, ...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Borg J,Bergman AK,Östergren PO

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the implementation of Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) strategy in all public health centers in Papua Province, Indonesia, since 1998, the rate of loss to follow-up (LTFU) during tuberculosis (TB) treatment remains high (above 16%). OBJECTIVES:We aimed to identify factors associated w...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Ruru Y,Matasik M,Oktavian A,Senyorita R,Mirino Y,Tarigan LH,van der Werf MJ,Tiemersma E,Alisjahbana B

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individuals in conflict-affected areas rarely get appropriate care for chronic or non-infectious diseases. The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is increasing worldwide, and new evidence shows conclusively that the negative effects of hyperglycemia occur even at mild glucose elevations and th...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Gilder ME,Zin TW,Wai NS,Ner M,Say PS,Htoo M,Say S,Htay WW,Simpson JA,Pukrittayakamee S,Nosten F,McGready R

更新日期：2014-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Doctoral training has increasingly become the requirement for faculty in institutions of higher learning in Africa. Africa, however, still lacks sufficient capacity to conduct research, with just 1.4% of all published research authored by African researchers. Similarly, women in Sub-Saharan Africa only constitute 30% ...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Khisa AM,Ngure P,Gitau E,Musasiah J,Kilonzo E,Otukpa E,Vicente-Crespo M,Kyobutungi C,Ezeh A,Fonn S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Job satisfaction is an important determinant of health worker motivation, retention, and performance, all of which are critical to improving the functioning of health systems in low- and middle-income countries. A number of small-scale surveys have measured the job satisfaction and intention to leave of indi...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Blaauw D,Ditlopo P,Maseko F,Chirwa M,Mwisongo A,Bidwell P,Thomas S,Normand C

更新日期：2013-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, are commonly plagued by poor access, poor performance, inefficient use and inequitable distribution of resources. To improve health system efficiency, equity and effectiveness, the World Development Report of 1993 proposed a first wave of heal...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Mbau R,Gilson L

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transactional sex is associated with the HIV epidemic among young people in Uganda. Few quantitative studies based on nationally representative survey data explored the relationship between sexual behaviors, HIV infection, and transactional sex. OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to determine the associations betwe...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Choudhry V,Ambresin AE,Nyakato VN,Agardh A

更新日期：2015-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A growing body of evidence points to the emission of greenhouse gases from human activity as a key factor in climate change. This in turn affects human health and wellbeing through consequential changes in weather extremes. At present, little is known about the effects of weather on the health of sub-Saharan...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Diboulo E,Sié A,Rocklöv J,Niamba L,Yé M,Bagagnan C,Sauerborn R

更新日期：2012-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 4-year (2007-2011) Revitalizing Health for All international research program (http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/projects/proj_revitalizing/index.shtml) supported 20 research teams located in 15 low- and middle-income countries to explore the strengths and weaknesses of comprehensive primary health care (...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Labonté R,Sanders D,Packer C,Schaay N

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although community engagement (CE) is widely used in health promotion, components of CE models associated with improved health are poorly understood. This study aimed to examine the magnitude of the impact of CE on health and health inequalities among disadvantaged populations, which methodological approache...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Cyril S,Smith BJ,Possamai-Inesedy A,Renzaho AM

更新日期：2015-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early medical checkups during and after delivery are key strategies to detect, prevent and treat maternal health concerns. Knowledge of interrelationships between early Antenatal Care (ANC), skilled delivery and early postnatal care (EPNC) is essential for focused and well-targeted interventions. This paper ...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Atuhaire R,Atuhaire LK,Wamala R,Nansubuga E

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adolescents in low and middle-income countries experience pronounced mental health needs in contexts where infrastructure and resources are scarce. While evidence-based treatment are readily available, they may not fit the unique needs of certain contexts. OBJECTIVE:This manuscript illustrates the systemati...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Boustani MM,Daleiden E,Bernstein A,Michelson D,Gellatly R,Malik K,Patel V,Chorpita B

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While there is accumulated evidence showing the rapid rise of the burden caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Vietnam, information on the extent to which households in the country suffer financial catastrophe or impoverishment caused by the diseases is still largely lacking. This paper aims to exami...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Van Minh H,Xuan Tran B

更新日期：2012-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social and environmental changes have accompanied the ongoing rapid urbanisation in a number of countries during recent decades. Understanding of its role in the health-risk transition is important for health policy development at national and local level. Thailand is one country facing many of the health ch...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： L-Y Lim L,Kjellstrom T,Sleigh A,Khamman S,Seubsman SA,Dixon J,Banwell C

更新日期：2009-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Madagascar today has one of the highest life expectancies in sub-Saharan Africa, despite being among the poorest countries in the continent. There are relatively few detailed accounts of the epidemiological transition in this country due to the lack of a comprehensive death registration system at the nationa...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Masquelier B,Waltisperger D,Ralijaona O,Pison G,Ravélo A

更新日期：2014-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Women in sub-Saharan Africa bear the brunt of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic, and older married women and those in cohabiting relationships are regarded as the largest HIV risk group. Although preventing HIV infection in married or stable relationships is an international HIV prevention prio...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Madiba S,Ngwenya N

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The main cardio-metabolic diseases - mostly cardiovascular diseases such as stroke and ischemic heart disease - share common clinical markers such as raised blood pressure and blood glucose. The pathways of development of many of these conditions are also interlinked. In this regard, a higher level of co-o...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Haregu TN,Oti S,Ngomi N,Khayeka-Wandabwa C,Egondi T,Kyobutungi C

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The dementia diagnosis gap in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is large, partly due to difficulties in assessing function, an essential step in diagnosis. OBJECTIVES:As part of the Identification and Intervention for Dementia in Elderly Africans (IDEA) study, to develop, pilot, and validate an Instrumental Activiti...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Collingwood C,Paddick SM,Kisoli A,Dotchin CL,Gray WK,Mbowe G,Mkenda S,Urasa S,Mushi D,Chaote P,Walker RW

更新日期：2014-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vietnam has achieved great improvements in maternal healthcare outcomes, but there is evidence of increasing inequity. Disadvantaged groups, predominantly ethnic minorities and people living in remote mountainous areas, do not gain access to maternal health improvements despite targeted efforts from policyma...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Binder-Finnema P,Lien PT,Hoa DT,Målqvist M

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:China has made impressive progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for maternal and reproductive health, but ensuring that progress reaches all segments of the population remains a challenge for policy makers. The aim of this review is to map disadvantaged populations in terms of maternal healt...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Yuan B,Qian X,Thomsen S

更新日期：2013-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Environmentally acquired asbestos-related diseases (ARDs) are of concern globally. In South Africa, there is widespread contamination of the environment due to historical asbestos mining operations that were poorly regulated. Although the law makes provision for the compensation of occupationally acquired AR...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Ndlovu N,Naude Jt,Murray J

更新日期：2013-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The obesity epidemic has been growing steadily across the whole world, and so far not a single country has been able to reverse it. The cause of obesity is stated by the World Health Organization as an energy imbalance between calories consumed and calories expended. However, growing evidence suggests that t...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Camacho S,Ruppel A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infants exposed to maternal HIV infection who remain HIV-uninfected (HIV-exposed/uninfected; HIV-EU) may be at increased risk of growth retardation, which could be due both to directly HIV-related effects and to socio-economic factors overrepresented among HIV-positive women. OBJECTIVE:To investigate growth...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： König Walles J,Balcha TT,Winqvist N,Björkman P

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) is used to evaluate health services. Subunits of a population (lots) are accepted or rejected according to the number of failures in a random sample (N) of a given lot. If failures are greater than decision value (d), we reject the lot and recommend corrective actions in the lot (...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Pezzoli L,Kim SH

更新日期：2013-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Migrant health workers fill care gaps in their destination countries, but they also actively engage in improving living conditions for people of their countries of origin through expatriate professional networks. This paper aims to explore the professional links that migrant health workers from sub-Saharan A...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Wojczewski S,Poppe A,Hoffmann K,Peersman W,Nkomazana O,Pentz S,Kutalek R

更新日期：2015-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In most low and middle-income countries vital events registration for births and child deaths is poor, with reporting of pregnancy outcomes highly inadequate or non-existent. Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) sites and periodic population-based household-level surveys can be used to identify ...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Kadobera D,Waiswa P,Peterson S,Blencowe H,Lawn J,Kerber K,Tumwesigye NM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Support supervision is one of the strategies used to check the quality of services provided at health facilities. From 2013 to 2015, Makerere University School of Public Health strengthened support supervision in the district of Kibuku, Kamuli and Pallisa in Eastern Uganda to improve the quality of maternal ...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Kisakye AN,Muhumuza Kananura R,Ekirapa-Kiracho E,Bua J,Akulume M,Namazzi G,Namusoke Kiwanuka S

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00