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Barriers and facilitators for the sustainability of digital health interventions in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review

Frontiers in Digital Health, 2022
BackgroundDigital health interventions (DHIs) have increased exponentially all over the world. Furthermore, the interest in the sustainability of digital health interventions is growing significantly.
Soutongnoma Safiata Kaboré, Soutongnoma Safiata Kaboré, Soutongnoma Safiata Kaboré, Patrice Ngangue, Patrice Ngangue, Dieudonné Soubeiga, Abibata Barro, Arzouma Hermann Pilabré, Arzouma Hermann Pilabré, Nestor Bationo, Nestor Bationo, Yacouba Pafadnam, Koiné Maxime Drabo, Hervé Hien, Hervé Hien, Gueswendé Blaise Léon Savadogo   +15 more
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Cardiovascular Considerations for Patients, Health Care Workers, and Health Systems During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 that has significant implications for the cardiovascular care of patients.
Elissa Driggin, Mahesh V. Madhavan, B. Bikdeli, Taylor Chuich, Justin Laracy, G. Biondi‐Zoccai, Tyler S. Brown, Caroline Der Nigoghossian, David A Zidar, J. Haythe, D. Brodie, J. Beckman, A. Kirtane, G. Stone, H. Krumholz, Sahil A. Parikh   +15 more
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A health systems resilience research agenda: moving from concept to practice

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Health system resilience, known as the ability for health systems to absorb, adapt or transform to maintain essential functions when stressed or shocked, has quickly gained popularity following shocks like COVID-19.
Dell D. Saulnier, K. Blanchet, Carmelita C. Canila, D. Cobos Muñoz, Livia Dal Zennaro, D. de Savigny, K. Durski, Fernando Garcia, Pauline Yongeun Grimm, A. Kwamie, D. Maceira, R. Marten, I. Peytremann-Bridevaux, Camille Poroes, V. Ridde, Laurence Seematter, Barbara Stern, Patricia Suárez, Gina Teddy, D. Wernli, K. Wyss, F. Tediosi   +21 more
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Preparing Health Systems to Respond Effectively, Adaptively, and Efficiently to Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Proceedings, 2020
A country’s ability to prepare for, detect, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks such as the Ebola outbreaks in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the recent Zika outbreak in the Latin American and Caribbean region, depends ...
Megan Barry, Benjamin Goebel
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Does training of Health Extension Workers reduce scabies load in district health facilities in rural Ethiopia?

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2020
Introduction: In 2017, Ethiopia included scabies management within the responsibility of health extension workers. In Kamba (the intervention district) workers were trained on scabies management. Whereas, in Arba Minch Zuria (the control district) there
Tigist Gezmu, Wendemagegn Enbiale, Mekuria Asnakew, Alemayehu Bekele, Gelila Beresaw, Mekdes Nigussie, Kudakwashe Takarinda, Marcel Manzi, Rony Zachariah   +8 more
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Seizing the moment to rethink health systems

Lancet Global Health, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has made vivid the need for resilient, high-quality health systems and presents an opportunity to reconsider how to build such systems. Although even well resourced, well performing health systems have struggled at various points to
K. Nimako, M. Kruk
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Limits of Compartmental Models and New Opportunities for Machine Learning: A Case Study to Forecast the Second Wave of COVID-19 Hospitalizations in Lombardy, Italy

Informatics, 2021
Compartmental models have long been used in epidemiological studies for predicting disease spread. However, a major issue when using compartmental mathematical models concerns the time-invariant formulation of hyper-parameters that prevent the model from
Andrea Gatto, Gabriele Accarino, Valeria Aloisi, Francesco Immorlano, Francesco Donato, Giovanni Aloisio   +5 more
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International monitoring of capacity of treatment systems for alcohol and drug use disorders: Methodology of the Service Capacity Index for Substance Use Disorders

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 2023
Objectives We aimed to develop a Service Capacity Index for Substance Use Disorders (SCI‐SUD) that would reflect the capacity of national health systems to provide treatment for alcohol and drug use disorders, in terms of the proportion of available ...
Dzmitry Krupchanka, Tomas Formanek, Kevin Shield, Jürgen Rehm, Martijn W. Heymans, Alexandra Fleischmann, Louisa Degenhardt, Tarek Gawad, Vladimir Poznyak   +8 more
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How much does HIV self-testing cost in low and middle income countries? A systematic review of evidence from economic studies

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
ObjectivesHIV self-testing (HIVST) has been proposed as an innovative strategy to diagnose human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). While HIVST offers the potential to broaden accessibility of early HIV diagnosis and treatment initiation, this testing ...
Brianna Empringham, Brianna Empringham, Angela Karellis, Abdulhameed Kashkary, Abdulhameed Kashkary, Olivia D’Silva, Sergio Carmona, Marta Fernandez Suarez, Angelina Addae, Nitika Pant Pai, Alice Anne Zwerling   +10 more
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Implementation Research to Catalyze Advances in Health Systems Strengthening in sub-Saharan Africa: the African Health Initiative (Preface) [PDF]

, 2013
The importance of strengthening health systems has gained increased attention in recent years, and there have been renewed calls for a focus on health systems as part and parcel of meeting the health related Millennium Development Goals.
Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth Sherr, Paulin Basinga   +2 more
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