Public Health Intelligence
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Open AccessFactors Influencing the Integration of Traditional Medicine and Mainstream Medicine in Mental Health Services in West Africa: A Systematic Review Using Narrative Synthesis
This study explored the enablers and obstacles to the integration of traditional medicine and mainstream medicine in mental health services in West Africa. This study is a systematic review conducted in accord...
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Maternity Leave
Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family lea...
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Open AccessRefugee and Immigrant Community Health Champions: a Qualitative Study of Perceived Barriers to Service Access and Utilisation of the National Health Service (NHS) in the West Midlands, UK
There has been much discussion recently that better healthcare systems lead to increased service access and utilisation. However, there are still concerns raised among the refugee and immigrant communities abo...
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Open AccessA systematic review of the factors – enablers and barriers – affecting e-learning in health sciences education
Recently, much attention has been given to e-learning in higher education as it provides better access to learning resources online, utilising technology – regardless of learners’ geographical locations and ti...
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Public-private partnerships and efficiency in public procurement of primary healthcare infrastructure: a qualitative research in the NHS UK
There is growing interest in the contribution of public-private partnerships (PPPs) bridging the shortage of financial resources and management expertise in develo** public healthcare infrastructure. However...
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Erratum to: Epidemiology and Public Health Intelligence
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Demography in Public Health Intelligence
Demography is the scientific study of human population. For the last few decades, demographic models and methods have been frequently used to analyse or measure the births, deaths and migration within human po...
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Public Health Intelligence: An Overview
The notion that medical statistics could be used to assess and then identify potential risks or associated factors to be able to prevent avoidable human loss emerged sometime in the early seventeenth century ( ...
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Synthesising Public Health Evidence
Public Health research is multi-disciplinary, complex and tries to understand problems in a ‘real-world’ context and this can make it hard to apply to practice and services that aim to improve health outcomes....
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Epidemiology and Public Health Intelligence
This chapter provides an introduction to epidemiology. It covers the key epidemiological concepts such as bias and confounding, as well as providing an overview of the nature, history and types of epidemiology...
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Health Systems and Decentralization
Health systems are comprised of many programmes, functions and interventions tailored to improve people’s health. All health systems share certain common features, such as the ways they are organised and finan...
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Public–Private Partnerships as Decentralization Strategy in Health Sector
Recently, there has been considerable shift towards market mechanisms encompassing different forms of partnerships to make public services more efficient and effective. Public–private partnerships (PPPs), a fo...
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Health Service Decentralization: An Overview
Health services worldwide are facing serious challenges, not only because they are not responsive to address people’s health-care needs but also because they have consistently failed to accommodate the central...
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Publication and Dissemination of Scholarly Knowledge: A Summary of the Published Evidence
Research publication and dissemination of scholarly knowledge in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are among the most influential roles of many academic scholars in both industrialised and develo** nation...
