Debra Roter, Judith A. Hall, Nancy Katz
Daniel Masterson, Kristina Areskoug Josefsson, Glenn Robert, Elisabeth Nylander et al.
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to explore how the concepts of co-production and co-design have been defined and applied in the context of health and social care and to identify the temporal adoption of the terms. METHODS: A systematic scoping review of CINAHL with Full Text, Cochrane Central Register ...
GBD 2017 Child and Adolescent Health Collaborators, Robert C. Reiner, Helen Elizabeth Olsen, Chad Ikeda et al.
Importance: Understanding causes and correlates of health loss among children and adolescents can identify areas of success, stagnation, and emerging threats and thereby facilitate effective improvement strategies. Objective: To estimate mortality and morbidity in children and adolescents from 1990 ...
Mengyun Zheng, Hui Jin, Naiyang Shi, Chunxiao Duan et al.
BACKGROUND: Low health literacy often has an association with poor health outcomes such as low levels of self-efficacy, increased mortality, poor health status and reduced quality of life (QOL). The aim of the study was to quantitatively evaluate the relationship between health literacy (HL) and QOL...
Michael Toole
The number of refugees and internally displaced persons in need of protection and assistance has increased from 30 million in 1990 to more than 43 million today. War and civil strife have been largely responsible for this epidemic of mass migration that has affected almost every region of the world,...
Alison L. Kitson
BACKGROUND: Despite over 40 years' work on general systems theory, informed by critical social science, there is a mismatch between the theories used to explain and influence clinical practice in nursing and the way in which transferring new knowledge into practice is articulated. DATA SOURCES: The ...
Rosalind Edwards, Bogusia Temple, Claire Alexander
This article explores the experiences of people who need interpreters to gain access to and use of a range of services, drawing on semi-structured interviews with people from Chinese, Kurdish, Bangladeshi, Indian and Polish minority ethnic groups living in Manchester and London, UK. We describe our ...
Shirajum Monira, Shota Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Kaori Izutsu et al.
Poor health and malnutrition in preschool children are longstanding problems in Bangladesh. Gut microbiota plays a tremendous role in nutrient absorption and determining the state of health. In this study, metagenomic tool was employed to assess the gut microbiota composition of healthy and malnouri...
Helen Harris–Fry, Kishwar Azad, Abdul Kuddus, Sanjit Kumer Shaha et al.
BACKGROUND: There has been limited decline in undernutrition rates in South Asia compared with the rest of Asia and one reason for this may be low levels of household food security. However, the evidence base on the determinants of household food security is limited. To develop policies intended to ...
Sumit Kane, Maryse Kok, Hermen Ormel, Lilian Otiso et al.
BACKGROUND: In LMICs, Community Health Workers (CHW) increasingly play health promotion related roles involving 'Empowerment of communities'. To be able to empower the communities they serve, we argue, it is essential that CHWs themselves be, and feel, empowered. We present here a critique of how di...
Owen O’Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer, Ravindra P. Rannan‐Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan et al.
The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across 11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcare concentration curves against an equal distribution and Lorenz curves and across countries. The analysis reveals that the distribution of public healthcare is prorich i...
Francesco Chirico, Gabriella Nucera, Nicola Magnavita
We believe that Bangladesh has lacked coordinated policy decision and enforcement measures to curtail COVID-19 transmission thus far. We urge policy makers to follow WHO guidance and observe other countries' experiences, which point to a strategy of acting decisively, quickly, and early, well before...
Mary Ann McColl, Peter M. Carlson, Jane Johnston, Patricia Minnes et al.
Despite considerable attention to community integration and related topics in the past decades, a clear definition of community integration continues to elude researchers and service providers. Common to most discussions of the topic, however, are three ideas: that integration involves relationships...
Hermen Ormel, Maryse Kok, Sumit Kane, Rukhsana Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: The recent publication of the WHO guideline on support to optimise community health worker (CHW) programmes illustrates the renewed attention for the need to strengthen the performance of CHWs. Performance partly depends on motivation, which in turn is influenced by incentives. This pape...
Judith C. Kulig, Dana Edge, Ivan Townshend, Nancy Lightfoot et al.