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- Improving Contraceptive Service Quality and Accessibility for Adolescents and Youth Through Proprietary Patent Medicine Vendors in Four Nigerian States
Building a collaborative partnership between public and private sector health entities can expand access to and improve the quality of contraceptive information and services provided to adolescents and youth living in urban poor communities.
- Implementation and Cost Analysis of a Novel Silicosis Case-Finding Program For Mine Workers in Rural Rwanda
Implementing occupational lung disease case-finding in resource-limited settings is clinically and economically feasible and can be integrated into routine noncommunicable disease case-finding.
- Budget Process and Execution: A Case Study on the Underperformance of the Peruvian Health System, 2000–2021
Four interconnected influences have caused the Peruvian health system to underperform. To break the influence of these cycles, the Ministry of Health needs to argue in economic terms to prioritize health.
- Applying a Three-Tier Approach to Address Gaps in Oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake and Continuity in Uganda: A Mixed Methods Approach
We introduced a transformative approach consisting of a gap analysis and root cause analysis to understand and address significant gaps in enrollment and continuity on oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and a national quality improvement collaborative to map interventions to address specific barriers in the PrEP cascade.
- The Thai Health Promotion Foundation: Two Decades of Joint Contributions to Addressing Noncommunicable Diseases and Creating Healthy Populations
Globally, the current investment in preventive care is inadequate and ineffective for addressing noncommunicable diseases and their causes. The Thai Health Promotion Foundation, with its sustainable funding from 2% levies on tobacco and alcohol, together with partners, has been used to address noncommunicable diseases effectively.
- Adopting Data to Care to Identify and Address Gaps in Services for Children and Adolescents Living With HIV in Mozambique
Real-time learning and implementation of the Data to Care strategy within the context of a large HIV intervention program in Mozambique provided a useful opportunity to evaluate, refine, and scale up this evidence-based approach to improve outcomes for children and adolescents living with HIV.
- Lessons Learned From Telephone-Based Data Collection for Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia
We document valuable experiences and challenges when collecting data for a routine longitudinal survey using telephones instead of in-person interviews during the pandemic.
- Interventions to Improve the Reproductive Health of Undocumented Female Migrants and Refugees in Protracted Situations: A Systematic Review
Evidence from a systematic review shows that subsidizing health care, strengthening health services, and implementing educational interventions have positive effects on undocumented migrant women and female refugees’ sexual and reproductive health outcomes.
- Collaboration in a Partnership for Primary Health Care: A Case Study From Papua New Guinea
Four key factors that influence collaboration in a public-private partnership (PPP) are relationships, time, governance, and the impact of change. Incorporating these factors into PPP design and implementation in similar settings can increase coordinated action and improvements in primary health care.
- Surgical System Efficiency and Operative Productivity in Public and Private Health Facilities in Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Evaluation
The surgical system in Ethiopia in both public and private health facilities was inefficient, requiring immediate action to improve timely access to safe surgical care.