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Health policies, systems and management in low and middle-income countries

Section edited by Ariadne Kapetanaki

This section aims to publish studies looking at the impact of health policies, practices and interventions on communities in low and middle-income countries.

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  2. Content type: Research article

    Child stunting due to chronic malnutrition is a major problem in low- and middle-income countries due, in part, to inadequate nutrition-related practices and insufficient access to services. Limited budgets fo...

    Authors: Ruth Pearson, Madhura Killedar, Janka Petravic, Jakub J. Kakietek, Nick Scott, Kelsey L. Grantham, Robyn M. Stuart, David J. Kedziora, Cliff C. Kerr, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Meera Shekar and David P. Wilson

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:384

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2018 18:555

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    Universal antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all pregnant/ breastfeeding women living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), known as Prevention of mother-to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) Option B+ (PMTCTB...

    Authors: David Etoori, Bernhard Kerschberger, Nelly Staderini, Mpumelelo Ndlangamandla, Bonisile Nhlabatsi, Kiran Jobanputra, Simangele Mthethwa-Hleza, Lucy Anne Parker, Sifiso Sibanda, Edwin Mabhena, Munyaradzi Pasipamire, Serge Mathurin Kabore, Barbara Rusch, Christine Jamet, Iza Ciglenecki and Roger Teck

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:374

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    Chronic hepatitis B infection is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide; low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are disproportionately affected. Economic evaluations are a useful decision t...

    Authors: Cameron M. Wright, Lydia Boudarène, Ninh Thi Ha, Olivia Wu and Neil Hawkins

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:373

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    Across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), HIV disproportionately affects men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) compared with other men of the same age group in the general population. Access to HIV services remains low among...

    Authors: Daniel Nyato, Evodius Kuringe, Mary Drake, Caterina Casalini, Soori Nnko, Amani Shao, Albert Komba, Stefan D. Baral, Mwita Wambura and John Changalucha

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:370

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  6. Content type: Research article

    Utilization of Antenatal Care (ANC) is very low in Nigeria. Self-reported patient satisfaction may be useful to identify provider- and facility-specific factors that can be improved to increase ANC satisfactio...

    Authors: Dumbiri J. Onyeajam, Sudha Xirasagar, Mahmud M. Khan, James W. Hardin and Oluwole Odutolu

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:368

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  7. Content type: Research article

    Transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) penetrated the Turkish cigarette market due to trade and investment liberalization in the post-1980 period and eventually secured full control. Despite tobacco control po...

    Authors: Seda Keklik and Derya Gultekin-Karakas

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:282

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  8. Content type: Research article

    Many Community Health Workers (CHWs) experience the same socioeconomic and health needs as their neighbors, given that they are by definition part of their communities. Yet very few studies aim to measure and ...

    Authors: Kenneth Maes, Svea Closser, Yihenew Tesfaye, Yasmine Gilbert and Roza Abesha

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:258

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  9. Content type: Research article

    Breede Valley is a sub-district of the Cape Winelands district, Western Cape Province, South Africa. The administrative capital of the district is situated in the semi-rural town Worcester. Findings of a basel...

    Authors: L. M. Du Plessis, M. H. McLachlan and S. E. Drimie

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:240

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  10. Content type: Research article

    The astonishing economic achievements of China in the past few decades have remarkably increased not only the quantity and quality of medical services but also the inequalities in health resources allocation a...

    Authors: Jingmei Ding, Xuejun Hu, Xianzhi Zhang, Lei Shang, Min Yu and Huoliang Chen

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:214

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  11. Content type: Research article

    Lymphatic filariasis (LF) and leprosy are disabling infectious diseases endemic in Nepal. LF infection can lead to lymphoedema and hydrocoele, while secondary effects of leprosy infection include impairments t...

    Authors: Joseph Pryce, Hayley E. Mableson, Ramesh Choudhary, Basu Dev Pandey, Dambar Aley, Hannah Betts, Charles D. Mackenzie, Louise A. Kelly-Hope and Hugh Cross

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:201

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  12. Content type: Research article

    Cutaneous leishmaniasis causes a high disease burden in Colombia, and available treatments present systemic toxicity, low patient compliance, contraindications, and high costs. The purpose of this study was to...

    Authors: Jaiberth Antonio Cardona-Arias, Liliana López-Carvajal, Mery Patricia Tamayo-Plata and Iván Darío Vélez

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:185

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  13. Content type: Research article

    HIV workplace policies have become an important tool in addressing the HIV Pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Zambia, the National AIDS Council has been advocating for establishing of HIV/AIDS workplace polici...

    Authors: Bridget Chatora, Harrington Chibanda, Linda Kampata and Mutale Wilbroad

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:180

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  14. Content type: Research article

    Community health workers (CHWs) provide maternal and child health services to communities in many low and middle-income countries, including South Africa (SA). CHWs can improve access to important health inter...

    Authors: A. Wilford, S. Phakathi, L. Haskins, N. A. Jama, N. Mntambo and C. Horwood

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:171

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    Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), used to treat uncomplicated malaria cases, is one of the main strategies of malaria control and elimination. One of the main objectives of the Benin National Malari...

    Authors: B. G. Damien, B. Aguemon, D. Abdoulaye Alfa, D. Bocossa, A. Ogouyemi-Hounto, F. Remoue and J.-Y. Le Hesran

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:168

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    An estimated 282 women die for every 100,000 live births in Myanmar, most due to preventable causes. Auxiliary Midwives (AMWs) in Myanmar are responsible for providing a package of care during pregnancy and ch...

    Authors: Kyu Kyu Than, Khaing Nwe Tin, Thazin La, Kyaw Soe Thant, Theingi Myint, James G. Beeson, Stanley Luchters and Alison Morgan

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:99

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  18. Content type: Research article

    Antibiotics have played an essential role in decreasing morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases. However, indiscriminate use and unrestricted access is contributing to the emergence of bacterial resis...

    Authors: Saviour Kwame Yevutsey, Kwame Ohene Buabeng, Moses Aikins, Berko Panyin Anto, Richard B. Biritwum, Niels Frimodt-Møller and Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:896

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  20. Content type: Research article

    Despite growing evidence in support of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) among infants in the first 6 months of birth, the debate over the optimal duration of EBF continues. This study examines the effect of termi...

    Authors: Md. Nuruzzaman Khan and M. Mofizul Islam

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:889

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  21. Content type: Research article

    Malaria is the leading cause of disease burden across the world, especially in African countries. Ethiopia has designed a five year (2011–2015) plan to cover 100% of the households in malarious areas with one ...

    Authors: Kindie Fentahun Muchie, Kassahun Alemu, Amare Tariku, Adino Tesfahun Tsegaye, Solomon Mekonnen Abebe, Mezgebu Yitayal, Tadesse Awoke and Gashaw Andargie Biks

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:888

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  22. Content type: Research article

    Road traffic Injuries (RTIs) as a health problem imposes governments to implement different interventions. Target achievement in this issue required effective and efficient measures. Efficiency evaluation of t...

    Authors: Habibollah Rahimi, Hamid Soori, Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari, Seyed Abbas Motevalian, Adel Azar, Eskandar Momeni and Mehdi Javartani

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:806

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  23. Content type: Research article

    Since its development in the early 1980s, Hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine has been proven to be highly protective. However, its immunogenicity may be ineffective among HIV-infected children. In Morocco, HBV va...

    Authors: Houda Haban, Soumia Benchekroun, Mina Sadeq, Abdelaziz Benjouad, Said Amzazi, Hicham Oumzil and Elmir Elharti

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:752

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  24. Content type: Research article

    The maternal mortality rate (MMR) markedly decreased in China, but there has been a significant imbalance among different geographic regions (east, central and west regions), and the mortality in the western r...

    Authors: Yan Ren, Ping Qian, Zhanqi Duan, Ziling Zhao, Jay Pan and Min Yang

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:750

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  25. Content type: Research article

    Despite advances in medical technology and public health practice at the global level over the past millennia, infectious diseases are still the leading causes of death in most resource limited countries. Stro...

    Authors: Chomba Brian Mandyata, Linda Kampata Olowski and Wilbroad Mutale

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:746

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  26. Content type: Research article

    Package inserts (PIs) as a reliable reference for patients and health care providers should provide accurate, complete and up-to-date information. The purpose of the current study is to assess and compare the ...

    Authors: Sandra A. Qatmosh, Amer A. Koni, Baraa G. Qeeno, Dina A. Arandy, Maysa W. Abu-Hashia, Bahaa M. Al-hroub and Sa’ed H. Zyoud

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:741

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  27. Content type: Research article

    Anemia early in life has been associated with delayed cognitive and motor development. The WHO recommends home fortification using multiple micronutrient powders (MNPs) containing iron as a strategy to address...

    Authors: Renfu Luo, Ai Yue, Huan Zhou, Yaojiang Shi, Linxiu Zhang, Reynaldo Martorell, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle and Sean Sylvia

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:738

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  28. Content type: Research article

    Allowing a broader range of trained health workers to deliver services can be an important way of improving access to safe abortion care. However, the expansion of health worker roles may be challenging to imp...

    Authors: Claire Glenton, Annik M. Sorhaindo, Bela Ganatra and Simon Lewin

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:730

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  29. Content type: Research article

    Catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) puts a heavy disease burden on patients’ families, aggravating income-related inequality. In an attempt to reduce the financial risks of rural families incurring CHE, Chin...

    Authors: Hai Gu, Yun Kou, Zhiwen Yan, Yilei Ding, Jusheng Shieh, Jun Sun, Nan Cui, Qianjing Wang and Hua You

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:727

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  30. Content type: Research article

    A multi pronged community based strategy, known as National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), was implemented from 2005–06 to 2012–13 in India to curtail maternal and child health (MCH) disparities between poor and...

    Authors: Madhu Gupta, Hans Bosma, Federica Angeli, Manmeet Kaur, Venkatesan Chakrapani, Monica Rana and Onno C.P. van Schayck

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:698

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  31. Content type: Research article

    Zoonotic diseases such as leptospirosis occur as a result of the often complex interactions that exist at the human-animal-environment interface. The most obvious consequence of this complexity is the need for...

    Authors: Simon A. Reid, Anna Rodney, Mike Kama and Peter S. Hill

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:671

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    It is globally agreed that a well-designed health system deliver timely and convenient access to health services for all patients. Many interventions aiming to reduce waiting times have been implemented in Chi...

    Authors: Jing Sun, Qian Lin, Pengyu Zhao, Qiongyao Zhang, Kai Xu, Huiying Chen, Cecile Jia Hu, Mark Stuntz, Hong Li and Yuanli Liu

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:668

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    Mortality statistics by age, sex and cause are the foundation of basic health data required for health status assessment, epidemiological research and formation of health policy. Close to half the deaths in Ma...

    Authors: Shubash Shander Ganapathy, Khoo Yi Yi, Mohd Azahadi Omar, Mohamad Fuad Mohamad Anuar, Chandrika Jeevananthan and Chalapati Rao

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:653

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2017 17:687

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    Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) and Japanese Encephalitis (JE) stay as poorly understood phenomena in India. Multiple linkages to determinants such as poverty, socio-economic status, gender, environment, and...

    Authors: Sanjay Chaturvedi, Neha Sharma and Manish Kakkar

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:645

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  35. Content type: Research article

    Transportation by motorcycle and bicycle has become popular in Taiwan, this study was designed to investigate the protective effect of helmet use during motorcycle and bicycle accidents by using a propensity s...

    Authors: Spencer C. H. Kuo, Pao-Jen Kuo, Cheng-Shyuan Rau, Yi-Chun Chen, Hsiao-Yun Hsieh and Ching-Hua Hsieh

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:639

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  36. Content type: Research article

    India’s Revised National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Programme (RNTCP) offers free TB diagnosis and treatment. But more than 50% of TB patients seek care from private practitioners (PPs), where TB is managed sub...

    Authors: Vijayashree Yellappa, Pierre Lefèvre, Tullia Battaglioli, Narayanan Devadasan and Patrick Van der Stuyft

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:635

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  37. Content type: Research article

    Person-centered care is a critical component of quality care, essential to enable treatment adherence, and maximize health outcomes. Improving the quality of health services is a key strategy to achieve the ne...

    Authors: Aradhana Srivastava, Devaki Singh, Dominic Montagu and Sanghita Bhattacharyya

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:20

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2017 17:736

  38. Content type: Research article

    Many health care workers (HCWs) are at increased risk for tuberculosis (TB). The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends screening HCWs for TB in high burden settings but this is often not implemented in co...

    Authors: Suzanne Verver, Nathan Kapata, Mathildah Kakungu Simpungwe, Seraphine Kaminsa, Mavis Mwale, Chitambeya Mukwangole, Bernard Sichinga, Sevim Ahmedov and Max Meis

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:17

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2017 17:736

  39. Content type: Research article

    Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), female health volunteers working at village level have become an integral component of National Health Mission (NHM) in India in the past two decades. Mitanin (meaning f...

    Authors: Mehul Kumar Chourasia, Kamaraju Raghavendra, Rajendra Mohan Bhatt, Dipak Kumar Swain, G. D. P. Dutta and Immo Kleinschmidt

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 18:9

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2017 17:736

  40. Content type: Research article

    Violence against women (VAW) is a major problem worldwide, with one in three women experiencing violence in their lifetime. While interventions to prevent violence (primary prevention) are extremely important,...

    Authors: Lucy Kirk, Samantha Terry, Kamalini Lokuge and Jessica L. Watterson

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:622

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  41. Content type: Research article

    An appropriate level of human resources for oral health [HROH] is required to meet the oral health needs of population, and enable maximum improvement in health outcomes. The aim of this study was to estimate ...

    Authors: Xiangyu Sun, Eduardo Bernabé, Xuenan Liu, Shuguo Zheng and Jennifer E. Gallagher

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:586

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  42. Content type: Research article

    This paper is aimed at critically assessing the extent to which Non-Communicable Disease NCD-related policies introduced in Bangladesh align with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2013–2020 Action Plan for...

    Authors: Tuhin Biswas, Sonia Pervin, Md. Imtiaz Alam Tanim, Louis Niessen and Anwar Islam

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:582

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  43. Content type: Research article

    The expansion of malaria prevention and control to school-aged children is receiving increasing attention, but there are still limited data on the costs of intervention. This paper analyses the costs of a comp...

    Authors: Roberta Maccario, Saba Rouhani, Tom Drake, Annie Nagy, Modibo Bamadio, Seybou Diarra, Souleymane Djanken, Natalie Roschnik, Siân E. Clarke, Moussa Sacko, Simon Brooker and Josselin Thuilliez

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:572

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  45. Content type: Research article

    In 2014, over half (54%) of the world’s population lived in urban areas and this proportion will increase to 66% by 2050. This urbanizing trend has been accompanied by an increasing number of people living in ...

    Authors: Tim Crocker-Buque, Godwin Mindra, Richard Duncan and Sandra Mounier-Jack

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:556

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    In 2013, the World Health Organization released a new set of guidelines widely known as Option B+. Prior to that there were guidelines released in 2010. Option B+ recommends lifelong antiretroviral treatment f...

    Authors: Pamela Marinda, Nkandu Chibwe, Ernest Tambo, Sidney Lulanga and Christopher Khayeka—Wandabwa

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:541

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  47. Content type: Research article

    There is global recognition of the reproductive health rights of people living with HIV (PLHIV). The aim of this research study was to explore the reproductive choices, and the factors influencing these choice...

    Authors: Samuel Agbo and Laetitia C. Rispel

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:540

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    Guangdong Province in the Pearl River Delta of Southeast China is among the areas in the country with the highest rates of avian flu cases. In order to control the outbreak of human-infected H7N9 cases, Guangd...

    Authors: Xiao Lin, Dingmei Zhang, Xinwei Wang, Yun Huang, Zhicheng Du, Yaming Zou, Jiahai Lu and Yuantao Hao

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:517

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  49. Content type: Research article

    The INDEPTH Training & Research Centres of Excellence (INTREC) collaboration developed a training programme to strengthen social determinants of health (SDH) research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs...

    Authors: Nicholas Henschke, Anna Mirny, Joke A Haafkens, Heribert Ramroth, Siwi Padmawati, Martin Bangha, Lisa Berkman, Laksono Trisnantoro, Yulia Blomstedt, Heiko Becher, Osman Sankoh, Peter Byass and John Kinsman

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:514

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  50. Content type: Research article

    Childhood mortality has remained a major challenge to public health amongst families in Nigeria and other developing countries. The menace of incessant childhood mortality has been a major concern and this cal...

    Authors: Sanni Yaya, Michael Ekholuenetale, Godson Tudeme, Shah Vaibhav, Ghose Bishwajit and Bernard Kadio

    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:485

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