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Open AccessHealth facility management and primary health care performance in Uganda
Primary health care is a critical foundation of high-quality health systems. Health facility management has been studied in high-income countries, but there are significant measurement gaps about facility mana...
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Open AccessApplication of single-level and multi-level modeling approach to examine geographic and socioeconomic variation in underweight, overweight and obesity in Nepal: findings from NDHS 2016
Nepal’s dual burden of undernutrition and over nutrition warrants further exploration of the population level differences in nutritional status. The study aimed to explore, for the first time in Nepal, potenti...
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Open AccessEstimated cost for cardiovascular disease risk-based management at a primary healthcare center in Nepal
Low- and middle-income countries are facing an increasing burden of disability and death due to cardiovascular diseases. Policy makers and healthcare providers alike need resource estimation tools to improve h...
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Open AccessAn integrated intervention for chronic care management in rural Nepal: protocol of a type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study
In Nepal, the burden of noncommunicable, chronic diseases is rapidly rising, and disproportionately affecting low and middle-income countries. Integrated interventions are essential in strengthening primary ca...
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Open AccessPreliminary validation of the PRImary care facility Management Evaluation tool (PRIME-Tool), a national facility management survey implemented in Ghana
The management quality of healthcare facilities has consistently been linked to facility performance, but available tools to measure management are costly to implement, often hospital-specific, not designed fo...
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Open AccessTransition to active learning in rural Nepal: an adaptable and scalable curriculum development model
Traditional medical education in much of the world has historically relied on passive learning. Although active learning has been in the medical education literature for decades, its incorporation into practic...
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Open AccessSurgical referral coordination from a first-level hospital: a prospective case study from rural Nepal
Patients in isolated rural communities typically lack access to surgical care. It is not feasible for most rural first-level hospitals to provide a full suite of surgical specialty services. Comprehensive surg...
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Open AccessStrengthening Nepal’s Female Community Health Volunteer network: a qualitative study of experiences at two years
Nepal’s Female Community Health Volunteer (FCHV) program has been described as an exemplary public-sector community health worker program. However, despite its merits, the program still struggles to provide hi...
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On the three diagonals of a cyclic quadrilateral
If the side lengths of a non-degenerate cyclic quadrilateral are given, but not necessarily in cyclic order, then three diagonal lengths arise in the resulting three cyclic quadrilaterals, just as three possib...
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Open AccessCrossing the quality chasm in resource-limited settings
Over the last decade, extensive scientific and policy innovations have begun to reduce the “quality chasm” - the gulf between best practices and actual implementation that exists in resource-rich medical setti...
