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Stomach Cancer Screening Services of Bhutan
Stomach cancer is a common public health problem in South East Asia including Bhutan. Chronic infection with Helicobacter pylori is regarded as the...
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Agenda setting for essential medicines policy in sub-Saharan Africa: a retrospective policy analysis using Kingdon’s multiple streams model
BackgroundLack of access to essential medicines presents a significant threat to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) in sub-Saharan Africa....
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Government, governance, and place-based approaches: lessons from and for public policy
BackgroundPlace-based approaches are increasingly applied to address the determinants of health, many of which are complex problems, to ultimately...
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Potentials and challenges of using co-design in health services research in low- and middle-income countries
Co-design with people having poor access to health services and fragile health systems in low- and middle-income countries can be momentous in...
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Primary health care as a tool to promote equity and sustainability; a review of Latin American and Caribbean literature
Primary health care (PHC) has increased in global relevance as it has been demonstrated to be a useful strategy to promote community access to health...
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A mixed methods evaluation of the impact of ECHO® telementoring model for capacity building of community health workers in India
IntroductionIndia has the largest cohort of community health workers with one million Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs). ASHAs play vital...
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Successes, weaknesses, and recommendations to strengthen primary health care: a sco** review
BackgroundPrimary health care (PHC) is a roadmap for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). There were several fragmented and inconclusive pieces...
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Community-based rehabilitation implementation for people with disabilities in South Africa: a protocol for a sco** review
BackgroundPeople with disabilities (PWDs) remain among the poorest and least empowered population. They experience limited access to basic services,...
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Are we there yet? Principles in advancing equity though global public health research
Canadian engagement in global and public health includes a long history of centering issues of equity in practice, policy, and research. In 2015,...
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Inpatient healthcare utilization among people with disabilities in Iran: determinants and inequality patterns
BackgroundPeople with disabilities (PWD) have different health service needs and different factors affect the utilization of these services....
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The informal healthcare providers and universal health coverage in low and middle-income countries
The World Health Organization has indicated that achieving universal health coverage (UHC) through public sector service delivery alone would not be...
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The impact of donor transition on continuity of maternal and newborn health service delivery in Rwenzori sub-region of Uganda: a qualitative country case study analysis
BackgroundThe transition of donor-supported health programmes to country ownership is gaining increasing attention due to reduced development...
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Barriers to implementing health programs based on community participation: the Q method derived perspectives of healthcare professional
BackgroundCommunity participation in implementing health programs leads to positive organizational, social and individual consequences. This study...
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The human right to safely give birth: data from 193 countries show that gender equality does affect maternal mortality
BackgroundWhile a reduction in the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) has slowed, newer strategies are needed to achieve an ongoing and...
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Factors influencing contracting of residents with family doctors in China: a national cross-sectional survey
BackgroundFamily doctor contract services (FDCS) have been introduced in China in 2009 [
1 ] and rapidly expanded recently. This study sought to...
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Health promotion, the social determinants of health, and urban health: what does a critical discourse analysis of World Health Organization texts reveal about health equity?
BackgroundThe World Health Organization (WHO) has focused on health equity as part of its mandate and broader agenda—consider for example, the...
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An anthropological history of Nepal’s Female Community Health Volunteer program: gender, policy, and social change
BackgroundCommunity health workers (CHWs) are central to Primary Health Care globally. Amidst the current flourishing of work on CHWs, there often is...
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Universal health coverage and capital accumulation: a relationship unveiled by the critical political economy approach
ObjectivesTo analyze the fundamentals of the global health agenda from 1944 to 2018, especially regarding Universal Health Coverage, in order to...
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The level of bifurcation of peroneal artery and its implications for posterolateral approach to the ankle: a CT angiography study
PurposeThis study aims to provide data, with the use of computed tomography angiography, regarding the level of bifurcation of the peroneal artery to...
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Exploring change over time in community mobilization domains: results from a maternity waiting home intervention in rural Zambia
BackgroundCommunity mobilization (CM) is recommended as a best practice intervention for low resource settings to reduce maternal mortality....
