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No universal health coverage without strong local health systems [PDF]

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2014
Despite the current global and national momentum,1 universal health coverage could remain an empty promise unless it is focussed on the provision of quality essential services to everyone. And this, in turn, will not happen without strengthening local health systems.
Bruno Meessen, Belma Malanda
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Health-industry linkages for local health: reframing policies for African health system strengthening [PDF]

Health Policy and Planning, 2018
Los beneficios de la producción local de productos farmacéuticos en África para el acceso local a los medicamentos y a un tratamiento eficaz siguen siendo controvertidos. Existe escepticismo entre los expertos en sistemas de salud a nivel internacional de que la producción de productos farmacéuticos en el África subsahariana (SSA) puede proporcionar ...
Mackintosh, Maureen, Mugwagwa, Julius, Banda, Geoffrey, Tibandebage, Paula, Tunguhole, Jires, Wangwe, Samuel, Karimi Njeru, Mercy   +6 more
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Creating Local Learning Health Systems [PDF]

JAMA, 2016
Transforming the delivery of health care to maximize value, by measurably improving clinical outcomes while simultaneously reducing costs, is fundamental to reforming health care. Achieving such a goal requires fundamental changes to health care delivery, through so-called clinical transformation efforts that better align people, processes, and ...
Smoyer, William E., Embi, Peter J., Moffatt-Bruce, Susan   +2 more
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Developing public health work in local health systems [PDF]

Primary Health Care Research and Development, 2004
Current government policy aims to create a wider ‘community of public health practice’ within local systems, working in a coherent and coordinated way in partnership with local people to reduce health inequalities. However, for this to happen policymakers and practitioners across the public sector have to reconsider boundaries, role definitions ...
Popay, Jennie, Mallinson, Sara, Kowarzik, Ute, MacKian, Sara, Busby, Helen, Elliott, Heather   +5 more
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Is health systems integration being advanced through Local Health District planning? [PDF]

Australian Health Review, 2016
Objective Delivering genuine integrated health care is one of three strategic directions in the New South Wales (NSW) Government State Health Plan: Towards 2021. This study investigated the current key health service plan of each NSW Local Health District (LHD) to evaluate the extent and nature of health systems
Carla, Saunders, David J, Carter
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Networks in local health systems: towards new spaces? [PDF]

GeoJournal, 2009
New organizations of care and social service delivery (especially the development of coordination and networks) are leading to the definition new spaces. This article is based on examples of restructuring of health care systems in France and in Quebec. Both are moving towards more integration of delivery of care.
Fleuret, Sebastien
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How can ethnobiology and ethnomedicine foster more applied and concrete solutions to safeguard medicinal systems of Indigenous, Afro-descendant and local communities? [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Ethnobiology and ethnomedicine have progressively shifted from utilitarian inventories toward more decolonized and inclusive approaches. Beyond their recognized contributions to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, their role in global ...
Guillaume Odonne, Sofia Zank
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Individual, community and health systems factors influencing time to notification of tuberculosis: situating software and hardware bottlenecks in local health systems [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research
Background Despite several global interventions, tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of death affecting millions of people globally. Many TB patients either have no access to quality care or go undetected by national health systems.
Sandra Beauty Chilala, Adam Silumbwe, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Moses Tetui, Maio Bulawayo, Mwimba Chewe, Peter Hangoma   +6 more
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Cardiac wasting in head and neck cancer and in cardiac autopsies from different cancer types: A study in a chemo‐naïve setting

Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2023
Background Cardiac wasting is a detrimental consequence of cancer that has been traditionally ignored and often misinterpreted as an iatrogenic effect.
Sara Calamelli, Samantha Noto, Alessandra Baldoni, Alessandra Casarin, Alessandro Calzavara, Irene Bolgan, Silvia Coccato, Salvatore Saccà, Licia Laurino, Giuseppe Azzarello, Simonetta Ausoni   +10 more
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Tracking implementation within a community-led whole of system approach to address childhood overweight and obesity in south west Sydney, Australia

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Obesity is a chronic disease that contributes to additional comorbidities including diabetes, kidney disease and several cancers. Change4Campbelltown implemented a ‘whole of system’ approach to address childhood overweight and obesity.
Nicola Maitland, Karen Wardle, Jill Whelan, Bin Jalaludin, Doug Creighton, Michael Johnstone, Josh Hayward, Steven Allender   +7 more
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