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Inequalities in public health care delivery in Zambia [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Access to adequate health services that is of acceptable quality is important in the move towards universal health coverage. However, previous studies have revealed inequities in health care utilisation in the favour of the rich.
Phiri, Jane, Jane Phiri, Ataguba, John E, John E Ataguba   +3 more
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Effect of delivery care user fee exemption policy on institutional maternal deaths in the Central and Volta regions of Ghana [PDF]

, 2007
Background: To improve access to skilled attendance at delivery and thereby reduce maternal mortality, the Government of Ghana introduced a policy exempting all women attending health facilities from paying delivery care fees.
Ansong-Tornui, Janet, Bosu, W.K., Bell, Jacqueline S., Armar-Klemesu, Margaret   +3 more
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“The role as a champion is to not only monitor but to speak out and to educate”: the contradictory roles of hand hygiene champions

Implementation Science, 2019
Background Implementation science experts define champions as “supporting, marketing, and driving through an implementation, overcoming indifference or resistance that the intervention may provoke in an organization.” Many hospitals use designated ...
Cassie Cunningham Goedken, Daniel J. Livorsi, Michael Sauder, Mark W. Vander Weg, Emily E. Chasco, Nai-Chung Chang, Eli Perencevich, Heather Schacht Reisinger   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advantages and Disadvantages of Random Forest Models for Prediction of Hip Fracture Risk Versus Mortality Risk in the Oldest Old

JBMR Plus, 2023
Targeted fracture prevention strategies among late‐life adults should balance fracture risk versus competing mortality risk. Models have previously been constructed using Fine‐Gray subdistribution methods.
Lisa Langsetmo, John T. Schousboe, Brent C. Taylor, Jane A. Cauley, Howard A. Fink, Peggy M. Cawthon, Deborah M. Kado, Kristine E. Ensrud, for the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) Research Group   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Removing financial barriers to access reproductive, maternal and newborn health services: the challenges and policy implications for human resources for health. [PDF]

, 2013
The last decade has seen widespread retreat from user fees with the intention to reduce financial constraints to users in accessing health care and in particular improving access to reproductive, maternal and newborn health services.
Barbara McPake, Witter, S, Ensor, Tim, Sophie Witter, David Newlands, Newlands, D., Chirwa, Yotamu, Suzanne Fustukian, Yotamu Chirwa, Martineau, Tim, Tim Martineau, Newlands, D, Tim Ensor, McPake, Barbara, McPake, B, Martineau, Timothy, Fustukian, S, Witter, Sophie, Martineau, T, Chirwa, Y, Newlands, David, Ensor, T, Fustukian, Suzanne   +22 more
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Integrated care: a position paper of the WHO European Office for Integrated Health Care Services. [PDF]

, 2001
The WHO European Office for Integrated Health Care Services in Barcelona is an integral part of the World Health Organizations' Regional Office for Europe.
Garcia-Barbero, M, Gröne, O, WHO European Office for Integrated Health Care Services   +2 more
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The Use of Saliva Samples to Test for Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection in Newborns: Examination of False-Positive Samples Associated with Donor Milk Use

International Journal of Neonatal Screening, 2023
A universal screening research study was conducted in six hospitals to identify the clinical sensitivity of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing on newborn dried blood spots (DBSs) versus saliva specimens for the diagnosis of congenital ...
Whitney Wunderlich, Abbey C. Sidebottom, Anna K. Schulte, Jessica Taghon, Sheila Dollard, Nelmary Hernandez-Alvarado   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Distance to care, facility delivery and early neonatal mortality in Malawi and Zambia. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Globally, approximately 3 million babies die annually within their first month. Access to adequate care at birth is needed to reduce newborn as well as maternal deaths.
Campbell, Oona MR, Lohela, Terhi, Gabrysch, Sabine, Sabine Gabrysch (107728), Oona M R Campbell, Lohela Terhi J., Terhi J Lohela, Oona M. R. Campbell (107725), Lohela, Terhi J, Sabine Gabrysch, Terhi J. Lohela (107721), Campbell Oona M. R., Gabrysch Sabine, Campbell, Oona M. R.   +13 more
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Tracing the potential of networks to improve community cancer care: an in-depth single case study

Implementation Science Communications, 2021
Background Despite overall declines in cancer mortality in the USA over the past three decades, many patients in community settings fail to receive evidence-based cancer care. Networks that link academic medical centers (AMCs) and community providers may
Jennifer L. Ridgeway, Lisa A. Boardman, Joan M. Griffin, Timothy J. Beebe   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Use Pattern of Maternal Health Services and Determinants of Skilled Care During Delivery in Southern Tanzania: Implications for Achievement of MDG-5 targets. [PDF]

, 2007
Almost two decades since the initiation of the Safe motherhood Initiative, Maternal Mortality is still soaring high in most developing countries. In 2000 WHO estimated a life time risk of a maternal death of 1 in 16 in Sub- Saharan Africa while it was ...
Mpembeni, Rose Nm, Leshabari, Melkzedeck T, Mushi, Declare, Killewo, Japhet Z, Jahn, Albrecht, Massawe, Siriel N, Mwakipa, Hassan   +6 more
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