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Scoping review protocol to understand the conceptualisation, implementation and practices of health promotion within the context of primary healthcare in Africa

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2021
Introduction The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of health promotion in empowering and sustaining communities, as well as the need to build resilient health systems and work collectively with other sectors to protect and promote ...
Pamela Obegu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Experiences of stigma and HIV care engagement in the context of Treat All in Rwanda: a qualitative study

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background ‘Treat All’ policies recommending immediate antiretroviral therapy (ART) soon after HIV diagnosis for all people living with HIV (PLHIV) are now ubiquitous in sub-Saharan Africa.
Charles Ingabire   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Capacity building in Nepal [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Medical Education Journal, 2016
Healthcare providers from high-income countries often want to help underserved populations, but providing clinical care is not always a sustainable approach. Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS), in Nepal, has taken an innovative approach to capacity building in healthcare. PAHS has partnered with rural family doctors from Canada to provide clinical
Russell Eric Dawe   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Mainstreaming the Full ENSO: Linking Present Weather and Future Climate

open access: yesInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2022
In this article we propose that all countries that are striving to become a Weather-Ready Nation (WRN) would benefit greatly from including El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-related research findings into their decision-making processes, not only when ...
Michael H. Glantz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

For the Record: Second Thoughts on Early Warning, Early Action (EWEA), EW4All, or EWEA4All?

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2023
Over the past four decades, people around the globe have experienced unprecedented escalations in the frequency, intensity, magnitude, and location of anomalous hydrometeorological (hydromet) hazards attributed in large measure to the direct and indirect
Michael H. Glantz, Gregory Pierce
doaj   +1 more source

Reviewing the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) to Enhance Societal Readiness for El Niño’s Impacts

open access: yesInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2020
NOAA’s Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) is used to record for historical purposes the occurrence and duration of El Niño episodes, based on the monitoring of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the central Pacific Ocean.
Michael H. Glantz, Ivan J. Ramirez
doaj   +1 more source

Participation, for Whom? The Potential of Gamified Participatory Artefacts in Uncovering Power Relations within Urban Renewal Projects

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
When defining participation in urban renewal projects in a political sense, this concept implies the challenging of power relations in each of its dimensions while addressing the need for knowledge, action and consciousness.
Teodora Iulia Constantinescu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Interval follow up of a 4-day pilot program to implement the WHO surgical safety checklist at a Congolese hospital

open access: yesGlobalization and Health, 2017
Background The World Health Organisation Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) improves surgical outcomes and the research question is no longer ‘does the SSC work?’ but, ‘how to make the SSC work?’ Evidence for implementation strategies in low-income ...
Michelle C. White   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Innovating for skills enhancement in agricultural sciences in Africa: The centrality of field attachment programs

open access: yesGateways, 2016
Africa remains an intensely agrarian continent, with two-thirds of its people directly or indirectly deriving their livelihood from agriculture. Higher agricultural education has thus emphasised production of graduates with the requisite skills to drive ...
Anthony Egeru   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measurement of patient reported disability using WHODAS 2.0 before and after surgical intervention in Madagascar

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Patient reported outcomes (PRO) measure the quality of care from the patient’s perspective. PROs are an important measure of surgical outcome and can be used to calculate health gains after surgical treatment.
Michelle C. White   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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