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...
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...
Helen Elsey, Irène Akua Agyepong, Rumana Huque, Zahidul Quayyem et al.
The world is now predominantly urban; rapid and uncontrolled urbanisation continues across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Health systems are struggling to respond to the challenges that urbanisation brings. While better-off urbanites can reap the benefits from the 'urban advantage',...
Tolib Mirzoev, Sumit Kane, Zunayed Al Azdi, Bassey Ebenso et al.
BACKGROUND: Well-functioning patient feedback systems can contribute to improved quality of healthcare and systems accountability. We used realist evaluation to examine patient feedback systems at health facilities in Bangladesh, informed by theories of citizenship and principal-agent relationships....
Lihini Wijeyaratne, Odette Spruijt, Saroj Jayasinghe, Sumit Kane et al.
INTRODUCTION: To deliver palliative care, it is important to understand what a "good death" means to the relevant people. Such studies have mostly occurred in high-income settings that usually live by Western ideals. What matters to people is likely to vary across different regions of the world, inf...
Jesús Rafael Rodríguez Amado, Mary-Ann Archer, Tonny Asafo-Agyei, Chintan Aundhia et al.
Sumit Kane, Prarthna Dayal, Tanmay Mahapatra, Sanjiv Kumar et al.
<ns5:p> <ns5:bold>Background:</ns5:bold> Few studies have explicitly examined the implementation of change interventions in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) public health services. We contribute to implementation science by analyzing the implementation of an organizational change intervention i...
Tolib Mirzoev, Sumit Kane, Zunayed Al Azdi, Bassey Ebenso et al.
Abstract Background Well-functioning patient feedback systems can contribute to improved quality of healthcare and ultimately make health systems more accountable. We used realist evaluation to understand the functioning of patient feedback systems at frontline health facilities in Bangladesh. Metho...
Tolib Mirzoev, Sumit Kane, Zunayed Al Azdi, Bassey Ebenso et al.
Abstract The authors have withdrawn this preprint due to author disagreement.
Md. Akhter Imam, Rocio Villacorta-Linaza, Sumit Kane
The rapidly increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD) constitutes a major public health challenge undermining future social and economic development. Using Bangladesh as a case study, we review gaps in health and nutrition behavior throughout the life-cycle and suggest possible policy and...