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Building capacity for public and population health research in Africa : the consortium for advanced research training in Africa (CARTA) model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Background: Globally, sub-Saharan Africa bears the greatest burden of disease. Strengthened research capacity to understand the social determinants of health among different African populations is key to addressing the drivers of poor health and ...
Akinyinka Omigbodun   +13 more
core   +5 more sources

Association between mother’s work status and child stunting in urban slums: a cross-sectional assessment of 346 child-mother dyads in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2020)

open access: yesArchives of Public Health, 2022
Background A growing literature highlights the increased risk of stunting among children growing up in informal or slum settlements. Despite relatively high rates of female labor force participation in slums, there is limited evidence on relationship ...
Hayman Win   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Are overwhelmed health systems an inevitable consequence of covid-19? Experiences from China, Thailand, and New York State

open access: yesBritish medical journal, 2021
Drawing on international experiences, Viroj Tangcharoensathien and colleagues argue that immediate extensive action to contain local transmission of new infectious diseases protects health systems from being ...
V. Tangcharoensathien   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

We are bitter, but we are better off: Case study of the implementation of an electronic health record system into a mental health hospital in England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In contrast to the acute hospital sector, there have been relatively few implementations of integrated electronic health record (EHR) systems into specialist mental health settings. The National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT) in England was
Barber, N, Sheikh, A, Takian, A
core   +5 more sources

mHealth in health systems: barriers to implementation

open access: yesHealth Leadership and Quality of Life, 2022
The implementation of mobile health or mHealth in health systems is subject to a number of challenges that are the subject of analysis by the scientific community.
Jhossmar Cristians Auza-Santiváñez   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Threats and outbreaks of cholera in Africa amidst COVID-19 pandemic: a double burden on Africa’s health systems

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Health, 2021
Every year, about 4 million cases and 143,000 deaths due to cholera are recorded globally, of which 54% were from Africa, reported in 2016. The outbreak and spread of cholera have risen exponentially particularly in Africa.
Olivier Uwishema   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mental health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
PHN Discussion Paper #2 – Mental Health notes a key role for Primary Health Networks in realising effective and lasting improvement in mental health outcomes, through adopting a person-centred approach in service design and enabling integration across ...
Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association
core   +1 more source

A neuro-cardiac self-regulation therapy to improve autonomic and neural function after SCI: a randomized controlled trial protocol

open access: yesBMC Neurology, 2021
Background Spinal cord injury (SCI) is associated with autonomic imbalance and significant secondary conditions, including cardiac and brain dysfunction that adversely impact health and wellbeing.
Ashley Craig   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conceptualisation of health inequalities by local healthcare systems: A document analysis

open access: yesHealth and Social Care in the community, 2022
In 2019, local healthcare systems in England were asked to develop formal plans to reduce health inequalities. Here, we explore plans to understand how local healthcare systems conceptualise health inequalities and why.
J. Olivera   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rethinking health sector procurement as developmental linkages in East Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Health care forms a large economic sector in all countries, and procurement of medicines and other essential commodities necessarily creates economic linkages between a country's health sector and local and international industrial development.
Abimola   +43 more
core   +1 more source

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