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Developing a model of family focused practice with consumers, families, practitioners and managers: a community based participatory research approach

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background While governments are urging adult mental health services to support consumers in the context of their family, there is little information about what family focused practice is, nor how it might be enacted.
Andrea Reupert, Bernadette Ward, Francis McCormick, Cathy Ward, Susan Waller, Susan Kidd   +5 more
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The urban-rural disparities and factors associated with the utilization of public health services among diabetes patients in China

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Basic public health services for diabetes play an essential role in controlling glycemia in patients with diabetes. This study was conducted to understand the urban-rural disparities in the utilization of basic public health services for ...
Xingli Ma, Wenyu Fan, Xindan Zhang, Shilong Zhang, Xia Feng, Suhang Song, Haipeng Wang   +6 more
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Measuring rurality in health services research: a scoping review

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
This study is a scoping review of the different methods used to measure rurality in the health services research (HSR) literature. We identified peer-reviewed empirical studies from 2010–2020 from seven leading HSR journals, including the Journal of ...
Robin Danek, J. Blackburn, Marion S Greene, O. Mazurenko, N. Menachemi   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Utilization of maternal health services and its determinants: a cross-sectional study among women in rural Uttar Pradesh, India

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2019
BackgroundProper utilization of antenatal and postnatal care services plays an important role in reducing the maternal mortality ratio and infant mortality rate.
Ranjana Singh, S. Neogi, A. Hazra, L. Irani, J. Ruducha, Danish Ahmad, Sampath Kumar, N. Mann, D. Mavalankar   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Decomposing the urban–rural inequalities in the utilisation of maternal health care services: evidence from 27 selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

Reproductive Health, 2021
Background There has been a substantial improvement in reducing maternal mortality in the Sub-Saharan African region. The vast rural-urban gap in maternal health outcomes, however, is obscured by this average achievement.
Oduse Samuel, T. Zewotir, D. North
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparison of health estimates between Victorian Population Health Surveys and National Health Surveys

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2003
Objective: The computer‐assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) method has grown rapidly in recent years as an epidemiological tool for obtaining data on health issues.
Adrian Serraglio, Norman Carson, Zahid Ansari   +2 more
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Exploring adolescents and young people’s candidacy for utilising health services in a rural district, South Africa

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
BackgroundWe use the ‘candidacy framework’ to describe adolescents’ and young people’s (AYP) experiences of health services in a rural KwaZulu-Natal district, South Africa.MethodsA qualitative approach was used including group discussions, in-depth and ...
B. Nkosi, J. Seeley, N. Ngwenya, S. Mchunu, Dumile Gumede, J. Ferguson, A. Doyle   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mental healthcare in rural Greece: an overview

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience & Mental Health, 2019
This article summarizes the current state of mental healthcare delivery in rural areas in Greece. Mental health services for common mental disorders are provided by primary care physicians, whereas local community mental health centers (CMHCs) and the ...
Vaios Peritogiannis
doaj   +1 more source

China's rural public health system performance: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: In the past three years, the Government of China initiated health reform with rural public health system construction to achieve equal access to public health services for rural residents.
Miaomiao Tian, Da Feng, Xi Chen, Yingchun Chen, Xi Sun, Yuanxi Xiang, Fang Yuan, Zhanchun Feng   +7 more
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How the health-seeking behaviour of pregnant women affects neonatal outcomes: findings of system dynamics modelling in Pakistan [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Limited studies have explored how health-seeking behaviour during pregnancy through to delivery affect neonatal outcomes. We modelled health-seeking behaviour across urban and rural settings in Pakistan, where poor neonatal outcomes persist ...
Ahmad, R., Atun, R. A., Lebcir, R. M., Zhu, N. J.   +3 more
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