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Access to health knowledge for health equality: a multi-phase review focused on disability-health
BackgroundThe existing evidence base indicates increased interest in knowledge translation (KT), or, the dissemination of research to ensure uptake...
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Community health workers: essential in ensuring primary health care for equitable universal health coverage, but more knowledge and action is needed
Community health workers (CHWs) have helped improve access to quality primary health care (PHC). However, knowledge gaps exist in designing and...
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How does parents’ social support impact children’s health practice? Examining a mediating role of health knowledge
BackgroundFamily environmental factors play a vital role in sha** children’s health practices (e.g., obesity prevention). It is still unclear how...
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Maternal Knowledge of Oral Health During Pregnancy and Childbirth
ObjectiveThis cohort study was to investigate maternal knowledge of the oral health of woman and children during pregnancy and after childbirth, and...
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Refugee women’s health: needs, knowledge, and behaviors of female refugees
BackgroundRefugees entering the USA undergo initial health screening. However, little guidance on preventative medicine is provided. We examined...
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Primary health care nurses’ mental health knowledge and attitudes towards patients and mental health care in a South African metropolitan municipality
BackgroundIn South Africa, there are on-going calls to integrate mental health services into existing primary health care (PHC) programmes such as...
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Exploring health insurance and knowledge of the ovulatory cycle: evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys of 29 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
BackgroundUnplanned pregnancy continues to be a major public health concern in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Understanding the ovulatory cycle can help...
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Patient Knowledge and Trust in Health Care. A Theoretical Discussion on the Relationship Between Patients’ Knowledge and Their Trust in Health Care Personnel in High Modernity
In this paper we aim to discuss a theoretical explanation for the positive relationship between patients’ knowledge and their trust in healthcare...
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Designing a knowledge translation tool for women’s health research in the U.S. Military Health System
BackgroundCurrent United States Department of Defense (DoD) estimates indicate that women comprise 17% of the total active duty component. Despite...
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Knowledge and practice of health workers towards maternal and child health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundThe burden of maternal and child mortality is high in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). While health workers (HWs) with adequate...
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Gap in knowledge of health benefits and risks of combined oral contraceptives among Lebanese women
BackgroundOral Contraceptive Pills (OCPs) are among the most commonly used forms of contraception, but they are associated with several health...
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Delivering transgender-specific knowledge and skills into health and allied health studies and training: a systematic review
Many transgender individuals face inequities, discrimination, and sometimes even a lack of transgender-specific knowledge in health care settings....
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Combining public health evidence, policy experience and communications expertise to inform preventive health: reflections on a novel method of knowledge synthesis
Knowledge synthesis methods help summarize evidence and utilize content expertise to draw out key messages to aid knowledge mobilization and...
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‘Of’ the community but not ‘of’ the health system: Translating community health workers’ knowledge into credible advice in Aceh, Indonesia
Community health workers (CHWs)—or ‘cadres’ as they are known in Indonesia—are intermediaries between the health system and the community, providing...
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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward Patient Safety among nurses in health centers
ObjectiveTo assess knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) toward patient safety among nurses working at primary and comprehensive health care...
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Program managers’ perspectives on using knowledge to support population health management initiatives in their development towards health and wellbeing systems: a qualitative study
BackgroundPopulation health management (PHM) initiatives are more frequently implemented as a means to tackle the growing pressure on healthcare...
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Maternal mental health screening and management by health workers in southwestern Uganda: a qualitative analysis of knowledge, practices, and challenges
BackgroundMaternal mental health (MMH) problems, such as perinatal depression, maternal anxiety, suicide ideation and puerperal psychosis among...
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Integrated knowledge translation guidelines for trainees in health research: an environmental scan
BackgroundCollaborative health research, such as integrated knowledge translation (IKT), requires researchers to have specific knowledge and skills...
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Faculty members as academic knowledge brokers in Iran's health sector: a social network analysis study
BackgroundInteraction between researchers and policymakers is an essential factor to facilitate the evidence-informed policymaking. One of the...
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Knowledge, attitude and practices of health care providers in implementing services to HRGs under the TANSACS program
Aim/ObjectiveTo assess the knowledge and practices of health care providers towards high-risk groups (HRGs) in order to maximize/better the services...
