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How equitable are community health worker programmes and which programme features influence equity of community health worker services? A systematic review

BMC Public Health, 2016
BackgroundCommunity health workers (CHWs) are uniquely placed to link communities with the health system, playing a role in improving the reach of health systems and bringing health services closer to hard-to-reach and marginalised groups.
Rosalind McCollum, W. Gomez, S. Theobald, M. Taegtmeyer   +3 more
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The Future of Community Health Services [PDF]

Public Health Reports (1896-1970), 1962
T WENTY years ago, when I first entered the field of public health, I had the good fortune to become an apprentice epidemiologist in the New York State Department of Health. The epidemiologic tradition was very strong in New York at that time; our seniors preferred to be members of the epidemiology section rather than the health officers section of the
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Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Infection Integrated With Municipal- and Community-Based Sexual Health Services.

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2016
IMPORTANCE Several randomized clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy of preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in preventing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition.
A. Liu, S. Cohen, E. Vittinghoff, P. Anderson, S. Doblecki-Lewis, Oliver Bacon, W. Chege, Brian S. Postle, T. Matheson, K. Amico, T. Liegler, M. Rawlings, Nikole Trainor, Robert Blue, Yannine Estrada, M. Coleman, G. Cardenas, D. Feaster, R. Grant, R. Grant, S. Philip, R. Elion, R. Elion, S. Buchbinder, M. Kolber   +24 more
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Experience of psychologists in the delivery of cognitive behaviour therapy in a non-western culture for treatment of substance abuse: a qualitative study

International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2022
Background Psychotherapy is the preferred form of treatment for psychological disorders worldwide. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is one of the most widely used psychotherapies due to its proven efficacy for psychological disorders, including ...
Abrar Hussain Azad, Shahzad Ali Khan, Ijaz Ali, Hina Shafi, Nisar Ahmed Khan, Shaaray Abrar Umar   +5 more
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Reducing infantile anemia: insight on patterns of process and outcome indicators by ethnicity and socioeconomic class during a 10-year intervention program and 5 years after

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2022
Background In 2005, Clalit Health Services (CHS), the largest health maintenance organization in Israel, initiated an intervention program aimed at reducing the prevalence rate of infantile anemia (IA).
Joseph Meyerovitch, Doron Carmi, Shraga Aviner, Michael Sherf, Doron Comaneshter, Yoseph Laks, Calanit Key, Uri Gabbay, Arnon D. Cohen   +8 more
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Cost of Delivering Health Care Services in Public Sector Primary and Community Health Centres in North India

PLoS ONE, 2016
Background With the commitment of the national government to provide universal healthcare at cheap and affordable prices in India, public healthcare services are being strengthened in India.
S. Prinja, Aditi Gupta, R. Verma, P. Bahuguna, Dinesh Kumar, M. Kaur, R. Kumar   +6 more
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Jurisdictional Coordination of Integrated HIV Prevention and Patient Care Planning and Implementation

Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, 2019
Jacksonville, Florida, provides services to persons living with the HIV. A federal call for integrated HIV prevention and treatment was published on June 19, 2015. This study unveils the principles that guided the local response to that call.
Graham Fitzgerald Watts Sr, PhD, Deidre Kelley MA, Matthew Maximillion Wilson PhD, Sandy Arts BSc, Joseph Mims BSc   +4 more
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Health Information Services Available for People Living With HIV/AIDS: Perspectives of Library and Information Professionals [PDF]

, 2006
There is an urgent need for availability of life-saving health information services as well as adequate marketing, advertising, and dissemination strategies to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs), and to the broader public at large, especially in the ...
Albright, Kendra S., Mehra, Bharat
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Health and community services for trafficked women: An exploratory study of policy and practice [PDF]

, 2011
The trafficking of women has attracted considerable international and national policy attention, particularly since the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (2000), of which the Australian ...
Hepworth, Julie, Jones, Mairwen, Schofield, Eugene, Schofield, Toni   +3 more
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Obesity prevention and the role of hospital and community-based health services: a scoping review

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
BackgroundControl of obesity is an important priority to reduce the burden of chronic disease. Clinical guidelines focus on the role of primary healthcare in obesity prevention.
C. Pearce, L. Rychetnik, S. Wutzke, Andrew Wilson   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source