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- Lessons Learned From the Implementation of a School-Based Sexual Health Education Program for Adolescent Girls in Cape Town, South Africa
Community engagement and acceptability of sexual education programs for adolescents alone are insufficient to ensure program uptake and engagement.
- Prevalence of Skeletal Fluorosis in Northern Tanzania: A Follow-Up Study
This follow-up study uniquely identifies the incidence rates for skeletal fluorosis in Tindigani village in Northern Tanzania and suggests that skeletal fluorosis in this population is an ongoing, yet preventable cause of long-term disability requiring public health intervention.
- Many Cooks in the Kitchen: Iterating a Qualitative Analysis Process Across Multiple Countries, Sites, and Teams
The authors propose a model for multinational modified grounded theory studies and describe their team's process of collaborating and adapting the model to allow for local needs across countries.
- Strengthening the Diagnosis and Treatment of Malnutrition Through Increased Nurse Involvement: A Quality Improvement Project From Pediatric Wards in Mozambique
This study shows how increased nurse engagement combined with quality improvement methods may lead to important accomplishments in diagnosing and caring for malnourished children in pediatric wards in Mozambique.
- Advocacy for Better Integration and Use of Child Health Indicators for Global Monitoring
Making better use of harmonized indicators to monitor child health and well-being at the global level will avoid duplicative monitoring and evaluation exercises, improve evidence-based programming, and preserve resources that can be used to improve the quality of national data collection platforms.
- Using Human-Centered Design to Explore Potential Users' and Men's Views of New Injectable Contraceptives in Kampala and Lagos
Although residents of Lagos and Kampala are interested in injectable contraception that lasts either 4 or 6 months, they have concerns as well.
- Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing the National Patient Safety Implementation Framework in Public Health Facilities in Tamil Nadu: A Qualitative Study
The study findings identified numerous implementation challenges that will make it difficult to fully implement the National Patient Safety Implementation Framework in public health facilities in Tamil Nadu by 2025.
- Lessons Learned in Improving the Quality of a Free Reproductive Health Hotline in Benin
Benin's Ligne Verte reproductive health hotline is filling information gaps and linking callers to services while getting regular feedback from its users to improve the service provided.
- Rehabilitation Practices Delivered by Physical and Occupational Therapists to Brazilian Children With Congenital Zika Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study
This study highlighted that professional training and knowledge translation strategies are needed to implement evidence-based practices and improve the quality of physical and occupational therapy programs for Brazilian children with congenital Zika syndrome.
- A Supervision Framework for Task-Shared Mental Health Workers: Implications for Clinical Trials and Beyond
The authors describe a supervision model that integrates elements of clinical supervision into categories that are suitable for use in task-shared trauma interventions in low-resource settings.