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Health, illness and healthcare-seeking behaviour of the street dwellers of Dhaka City, Bangladesh: qualitative exploratory study

BMJ Open, 2020
Objective This study explored the illness experiences and healthcare-seeking behaviour of a cross-section of street dwellers of Dhaka City for designing a customised intervention.Design A qualitative exploratory study of a sample of street dwellers of ...
Nahitun Naher, Syed Masud Ahmed, Samiun Nazrin Bente Kamal Tune, Roksana Hoque, Nazia Islam, Md. Mazedul Islam   +5 more
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Leveraging innovation technologies to respond to malaria: a systematized literature review of emerging technologies

Malaria Journal, 2023
Background In 2019, an estimated 409,000 people died of malaria and most of them were young children in sub-Saharan Africa. In a bid to combat malaria epidemics, several technological innovations that have contributed significantly to malaria response ...
Moredreck Chibi, William Wasswa, Chipo Ngongoni, Ebenezer Baba, Akpaka Kalu   +4 more
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First Field Test of the Novel Integration Mapping Tool for COVID-19 Vaccination Integration into National Immunization Programs and Primary Healthcare—A Case Study from Côte d’Ivoire

Vaccines, 2023
Introduction: With the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic in Côte d’Ivoire, efforts were made to seamlessly integrate COVID-19 vaccination into the national immunization program.
Adidja Amani, Ekra Kouadio Daniel, Brou Gbotto, Kossia Yao, Aka Lépri Nicaise, Epa Kouakou, Kouadio Sie Kabran, Gervais Gahongano, Abdoul Gadiry Fadiga, Abdou Aziz Gbaya, Oniovo Efe-Aluta, Franck Mboussou, Imran Mirza, Benjamin Schreiber   +13 more
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National public health institutes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Insights from experts in the field

BMJ Global Health
National public health institutes (NPHIs) are crucial to the effectiveness of public health systems, including delivering essential public health functions and generating evidence for national health policies, strategies and plans.
Awad Mataria, Hala Abou-Taleb, Sebastian van Gilst, Nada Mohamed   +3 more
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Legislating for universal access to medicines : a rights-based cross-national comparison of UHC laws in 16 countries [PDF]

, 2019
Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to ensure that all people have access to health services including essential medicines without risking financial hardship. Yet, in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) inadequate UHC fails to ensure universal
Alexandrov, Nikita V, Hogerzeil, Hans V, Perehudoff, Katrina   +2 more
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Achieving universal health coverage

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2015
There is global consensus on the goals of universal health coverage (UHC), which has been defined as “all people receiving quality health services that meet their needs without exposing them to financial hardship in paying for them.”1 Yet despite this consensus, it remains unclear how the global health community can achieve universal coverage.
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health workforce strategies during COVID-19 response: insights from 15 countries in the WHO Africa Region

BMC Health Services Research
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic unveiled huge challenges in health workforce governance in the context of public health emergencies in Africa. Several countries applied several measures to ensure access to qualified and skilled health workers to ...
Adam Ahmat, Sunny C Okoroafor, James Avoka Asamani, Millogo Jean, Abdou Illou Mourtala, Jennifer Nyoni, Kasonde Mwinga   +6 more
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Research for Universal Health Coverage [PDF]

Science Translational Medicine, 2013
The 2013 World Health Report argues that universal health coverage cannot be achieved without funding basic and applied health research.
Christopher, Dye, John C, Reeder, Robert F, Terry   +2 more
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AAA+ protein unfoldases—the Moirai of the proteome

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
AAA+ unfoldases are essential molecular motors that power protein degradation and disaggregation. This review integrates recent cryo‐electron microscopy (cryo‐EM) structures and single‐molecule biophysical data to reconcile competing models of substrate translocation.
Stavros Azinas, Marta Carroni
wiley   +1 more source