Local elections and local health systems
The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2023 Our Political Editor discusses why it is important to consider voting in your local elections in order to make larger changes and bring in the right initiatives.
V. Holloway
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Local health systems resilience in managing the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from Mexico. [PDF]
Health Policy Plan, 2022 The concept of resilience was applied to the public health field to investigate the way health systems are impacted by health crises, what conditions allow them to mitigate the blow, and how they reorganize once the crisis is over.
Juárez-Ramírez C +7 more
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District Health Teams' Readiness to Institutionalize Integrated Community Case Management in the Uganda Local Health Systems: A Repeated Qualitative Study. [PDF]
Glob Health Sci Pract, 2020 District health teams failed to transition from partner-supported integrated community case management (iCCM) programs to locally-run and fully-institutionalized programs.
Nanyonjo A +3 more
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Measuring coordination between women's self-help groups and local health systems in rural India: a social network analysis. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2019 Objectives To assess how the health coordination and emergency referral networks between women’s self-help groups (SHGs) and local health systems have changed over the course of a 2-year learning phase of the Uttar Pradesh Community Mobilization Project,
Ruducha J +7 more
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The governance of local health systems in the era of Sustainable Development Goals: reflections on collaborative action to address complex health needs in four country contexts. [PDF]
BMJ Glob Health, 2019 This analysis reflects on experiences and lessons from four country settings—Zambia, India, Sweden and South Africa—on building collaborations in local health systems in order to respond to complex health needs.
Schneider H +4 more
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Impact of Refugees on Local Health Systems: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis in Cameroon. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 Hosting refugees may represent a drain on local resources, particularly since external aid is frequently insufficient. Between 2004 and 2011, over 100,000 refugees settled in the eastern border of Cameroon. With little known on how refugee influx affects
Tatah L +4 more
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Integrating informal providers into a people-centered health systems approach: qualitative evidence from local health systems in rural Nigeria. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv Res, 2016 BackgroundThe presence of a large informal healthcare sector in many low- and middle-income countries poses both challenges and opportunities for achieving a people-centered health system.
Sieverding M, Beyeler N.
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Historicizing the Emergence of Global Mental Health in Nepal (1950-2019) [PDF]
, 2020 This article traces a genealogy of mental health governance in Nepal as it was constituted in and through an assemblage of historical events, local politics, personal relationships and trends in the field of global health development.
Seale-Feldman, Aidan
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Investigation of a Limited but Explosive COVID-19 Outbreak in a German Secondary School
Viruses, 2022 The role of schools as a source of infection and driver in the coronavirus-pandemic has been controversial and is still not completely clarified. To prevent harm and disadvantages for children and adolescents, but also adults, detailed data on school ...
Sigrid Baumgarte +6 more
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Social Theory & Health, 2022 Local health systems are increasingly tasked to play a more central role in driving action to reduce social inequalities in health. Past experience, however, has demonstrated the challenge of reorienting health system actions towards prevention and the ...
Naoimh E. McMahon
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