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Podcasts as a tool to disrupt knowledge hierarchies and silos to decolonize global health
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Open Access“Hospitals respond to demand. Public health needs to respond to risk”: health system lessons from a case study of northern Queensland’s COVID-19 surveillance and response
The vast region of northern Queensland (NQ) in Australia experiences poorer health outcomes and a disproportionate burden of communicable diseases compared with urban populations in Australia. This study exami...
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Open AccessFactors influencing the community participation approaches used in Aedes mosquito management in the Torres Strait, Australia
Aedes-borne disease risk is increasing in tropical and sub-tropical regions across the globe. While Aedes-borne disease continues to disproportionally affect low- and middle-income countries, parts of high-income...
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Open AccessA qualitative study of senior management perspectives on the leadership skills required in regional and rural Australian residential aged care facilities
With increasing recognition of the quality and safety issues in residential aged care, there is an urgent need to better understand what skills senior managers require to deliver on the spectrum of leadership ...
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Open AccessHow might improved estimates of HIV programme outcomes influence practice? A formative study of evidence, dissemination and response
While HIV programmes have started millions of persons on life-saving antiretroviral therapy in Africa, longitudinal health information systems are frail and, therefore, data about long-term survival is often i...
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Addressing Common Mental Health Disorders Among Incarcerated People Living with HIV: Insights from Implementation Science for Service Integration and Delivery
Despite evidence of disproportionate burden of HIV and mental health disorders among incarcerated people, scarce services exist to address common mental health disorders, including major depressive and anxiety...
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Open AccessA review of the impact of financing mechanisms on maternal health care in Australia
The World Health Organization states there are three interrelated domains that are fundamental to achieving and maintaining universal access to care - raising sufficient funds for health care, reducing financi...
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Open AccessLong-term out of pocket expenditure of people with cancer: comparing health service cost and use for indigenous and non-indigenous people with cancer in Australia
Indigenous Australians diagnosed with cancer have poorer survival compared to non-Indigenous Australians. We aim to: 1) identify differences by Indigenous status in out-of-pocket expenditure for the first thre...
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Open AccessShowcasing the contribution of social sciences to health policy and systems research
This Special Issue represents a critical response to the frequent silencing of qualitative social science research approaches in mainstream public health journals, particularly in those that inform the field o...
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Open AccessThe health system accountability impact of prison health committees in Zambia
From 2013, the Zambian Corrections Service (ZCS) worked with partners to strengthen prison health systems and services. One component of that work led to the establishment of facility-based Prison Health Committe...
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Open Access“We are everything to everyone”: a systematic review of factors influencing the accountability relationships of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers (AHWs) in the Australian health system
Health policy in Australia positions Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers (AHWs) as central to improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ health, with high expectations of their c...
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Open AccessCommunity health workers and accountability: reflections from an international “think-in”
Community health workers (CHWs) are frequently put forward as a remedy for lack of health system capacity, including challenges associated with health service coverage and with low community engagement in the ...
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Open AccessUse of Lot quality assurance sampling surveys to evaluate community health worker performance in rural Zambia: a case of Luangwa district
The Better Health Outcomes through Mentoring and Assessment (BHOMA) project is a cluster randomized controlled trial aimed at reducing age-standardized mortality rates in three rural districts through involvem...
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Open AccessHealth and healthcare access among Zambia’s female prisoners: a health systems analysis
Research exploring the drivers of health outcomes of women who are in prison in low- and middle-income settings is largely absent. This study aimed to identify and examine the interaction between structural, o...
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Open AccessFair publication of qualitative research in health systems: a call by health policy and systems researchers
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Open AccessMotivations for entering and remaining in volunteer service: findings from a mixed-method survey among HIV caregivers in Zambia
A high burden of HIV in many sub-Saharan African countries has triggered renewed interest in volunteer-based community health programmes as a way to support treatment roll-out and to deliver services to childr...
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Open AccessThe impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) service scale-up on mechanisms of accountability in Zambian primary health centres: a case-based health systems analysis
Questions about the impact of large donor-funded HIV interventions on low- and middle-income countries’ health systems have been the subject of a number of expert commentaries, but comparatively few empirical ...
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Open AccessImpact of organizational factors on adherence to laboratory testing protocols in adult HIV care in Lusaka, Zambia
Previous operational research studies have demonstrated the feasibility of large-scale public sector ART programs in resource-limited settings. However, organizational and structural determinants of quality of...
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Seasonal variation in the duetting behaviour of rufous-and-white wrens (Thryothorus rufalbus)
Seasonal variation in animal signalling behaviour has been well documented and has contributed much to our understanding of male signals. In contrast, we know little about seasonal variation in female signals ...
