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Primary health care reform in Saudi Arabia: progress, challenges and prospects.

Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit, 2021
Background Saudi Arabia embarked on transforming its primary health care system in 2016 to meet international standards, gain the people's trust and respond to the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases, as proposed in the Saudi Vision 2030.
Hesham I. Al Khashan, Fouad Abogazalah, Shaker A Alomary, Mahmoud Nahhas, Ali M. Alwadey, Basema K. Al-Khudhair, Fahad Alamri, Nouf Aleisa, N. Mahmoud, Mustafa Hassanein   +9 more
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Living through uncertainty: a qualitative study on leadership and resilience in primary healthcare during COVID-19

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Resilience is often referred to when assessing the ability of health systems to maintain their functions during unexpected events. Primary healthcare forms the basis for the health system and thus its resilient responses are vital for the ...
Soila Karreinen, Henna Paananen, Laura Kihlström, Kristiina Janhonen, Moona Huhtakangas, Marjaana Viita-aho, Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen   +6 more
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Qualitative evaluation of the general practitioner chronic non-communicable diseases training programme

BMC Medical Education, 2020
Background In China, general practitioners have limited ability to provide care for common chronic non-communicable diseases because they lack postgraduate training.
Chunyu Zhang, Fang Fang, Mingqiang Peng, Ying Zhao, Ruixue Liu, Cunbo Jia   +5 more
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Medical education reform in Tajikistan: comparison of the conventional one-year family medicine residency program and the new two-year residency program for postgraduate medical education

BMC Medical Education, 2021
Introduction The last two decades have seen a shift in former Soviet countries from highly specialized to more family medicine-focused systems. Medical education has slowly adjusted to these reforms, although the region is still at risk to have a chronic
Leah F. Bohle, Edgar Valencia, Greta Ross, Davlyatova Dilbar Dzhabarovna, Shakhlo N. Yarbaeva, Zukhra A. Kasymova, Helen Prytherch   +6 more
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Peruvian Mental Health Reform: A Framework for Scaling-up Mental Health Services

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017
Background: Mental, neurological, and substance (MNS) use disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide; specifically in Peru, MNS affect 1 in 5 persons.
M. Toyama, H. Castillo, J. Galea, L. Brandt, María Mendoza, V. Herrera, Martha Mitrani, Yuri Cutipé, V. Cavero, F. Diez-Canseco, J. Miranda   +10 more
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Assessing the effects of the nursing education reform on the educational environment in Tajikistan: a repeated cross-sectional analysis

BMC Nursing, 2020
Background A well-functioning education system for family nurses is a priority of the primary health care reform in Tajikistan. In 2015/2016, a baseline study was carried out to measure the educational environment at two nursing colleges, in Kulob and ...
Filippo Lechthaler, Michele Arigoni, Mohira Khamidova, Dilbar Davlyatova, Helen Prytherch, Kaspar Wyss   +5 more
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The COVID-19 outbreak and psychiatric hospitals in China: managing challenges through mental health service reform

International Journal on Biological Sciences, 2020
Recently, more than 300 Chinese patients with psychiatric disorders were diagnosed with the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Possible reasons quoted in the report were the lack of caution regarding the COVID-19 outbreak in January and ...
Y. Xiang, Yan-Jie Zhao, Zi-Han Liu, Xiaohong Li, Na Zhao, T. Cheung, C. Ng   +6 more
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Investment case for two-year post university speciality training in family medicine in Tajikistan: how much is needed for continuing and scaling up the improved education of family doctors?

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background A new two-year Post University Specialty Training (PUST) programme in family medicine was introduced to improve the quality of postgraduate speciality medical education in Tajikistan.
Jari Kempers, Leah F. Bohle, Alexandra Topa, Greta Ross, Zukhra Kasymova, Shakhlo Yarbaeva, Cristina Rotaru, Helen Prytherch   +7 more
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How to do better health reform: a snapshot of change and improvement initiatives in the health systems of 30 countries

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2016
Health systems are continually being reformed. Why, and how? To answer these questions, we draw on a book we recently contributed, Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety: Perspectives, Participants, Partnerships and Prospects in 30 Countries.
J. Braithwaite, Y. Matsuyama, R. Mannion, Julie K. Johnson, D. Bates, Cliff Hughes   +5 more
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A Community Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis in Sydney Associated with a Public Swimming Facility: A Case-Control Study

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2011
In February, 2008, the South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Public Health Unit investigated an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis within the south east region of Sydney, Australia.
Darren J. Mayne, Kelly-Anne Ressler, Diane Smith, Gareth Hockey, Susan J. Botham, Mark J. Ferson   +5 more
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