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Effective access to health services: operationalizing universal health coverage

Salud Pública de México, 2015
The right to health and its operational form, as an organized social response to health: the right to health protection, are the mainstay for the global push towards universal health coverage.
Germán Fajardo-Dolci, Juan Pablo Gutiérrez, Sebastián García-Saisó   +2 more
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Improving access to refractive and eye health services

Community Eye Health Journal, 2016
Avoidable blindness and vision impairment affects 741 million people worldwide. Uncorrected refractive error (URE) is the major cause, accounting for 84% of all cases, or 625 million people. Despite URE being easily detected, measured and corrected, many
Luigi Bilotto, Michael Morton, Luisa Casas Luque, Rob Terry, Judith Stern, Kesi Naidoo   +5 more
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Integrating community-based HIV and non-communicable disease care with microfinance groups: a feasibility study in Western Kenya

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2022
Background The Harambee study is a cluster randomized trial in Western Kenya that tests the effect, mechanisms, and cost-effectiveness of integrating community-based HIV and non-communicable disease care within microfinance groups on chronic disease ...
Catherine Kafu, Juddy Wachira, Victor Omodi, Jamil Said, Sonak D. Pastakia, Dan N. Tran, Jael Adongo Onyango, Dan Aburi, Marta Wilson-Barthes, Omar Galárraga, Becky Lynn Genberg   +10 more
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Improving health outcomes and quality at the subdistrict level: Evaluation of the ‘3 feet model’ in Waterberg District, Limpopo Province, South Africa

South African Medical Journal, 2023
Background. There is a gap in understanding of potential roles and actions at the subdistrict level to improve quality of care and health outcomes in South Africa (SA). Objectives.
H Schneider, F Mukinda, J Cupido, J Wessels, P Kupa, P Leboho, N Nkoana, N Bosch, Y Pillay   +8 more
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Enabling Adherence to Treatment (EAT): a pilot study of a combination intervention to improve HIV treatment outcomes among street-connected individuals in western Kenya

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Street-connected individuals (SCI) in Kenya experience barriers to accessing HIV care. This pilot study provides proof-of-concept for Enabling Adherence to Treatment (EAT), a combination intervention providing modified directly observed ...
Mia Kibel, Monicah Nyambura, Lonnie Embleton, Reuben Kiptui, Omar Galárraga, Edith Apondi, David Ayuku, Paula Braitstein   +7 more
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Referral and access to children's health services [PDF]

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2004
A single point of entry model The Children’s National Service Framework has identified access as a core theme and aims to develop standards to ensure better access and smoother progression in the provision of services.1 The need for better coordination was highlighted by the Bristol Children’s Enquiry which recommended that “there must be a greater ...
N, Simpson, P, Stallard
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Evaluating the potential economic and health impact of rotavirus vaccination in 63 middle-income countries not eligible for Gavi funding: a modelling study

The Lancet Global Health, 2021
Summary: Background: Middle-income countries (MICs) that are not eligible for funding from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, have been slow to adopt rotavirus vaccines.
Frédéric Debellut, MSc, Andrew Clark, PhD, Clint Pecenka, PhD, Jacqueline Tate, PhD, Ranju Baral, PhD, Colin Sanderson, ProfPhD, Umesh Parashar, MD, Deborah Atherly, PhD   +7 more
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Correction to: Identifying common barriers and facilitators to linkage and retention in chronic disease care in western Kenya

BMC Public Health, 2018
After the publication of the original article [1], it was highlighted that Fig. 1 was incorrectly labeled.
Beth Rachlis, Violet Naanyu, Juddy Wachira, Becky Genberg, Beatrice Koech, Regina Kamene, Jackie Akinyi, Paula Braitstein   +7 more
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Identifying common barriers and facilitators to linkage and retention in chronic disease care in western Kenya

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Sub-Saharan Africa is increasingly being challenged in providing care and treatment for chronic diseases, both communicable and non-communicable.
Beth Rachlis, Violet Naanyu, Juddy Wachira, Becky Genberg, Beatrice Koech, Regina Kamene, Jackie Akinyi, Paula Braitstein   +7 more
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Engagement of the private pharmaceutical sector for TB control: rhetoric or reality?

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2017
Background Private-sector retail drug outlets are often the first point of contact for common health ailments, including tuberculosis (TB). Systematic reviews on public-private mix (PPM) interventions for TB did not perform in-depth reviews specifically ...
Niranjan Konduri, Emily Delmotte, Edmund Rutta   +2 more
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