Issue Special Issue 2/2017
Research for health systems strengthening in Africa: studies by fellows of the African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship (ADDRF) program
Content (10 Articles)
“It takes more than a fellowship program”: reflections on capacity strengthening for health systems research in sub-Saharan Africa
Chimaraoke O. Izugbara, Caroline W. Kabiru, Djesika Amendah, Zacharie Tsala Dimbuene, Hermann Pythagore Pierre Donfouet, Esso-Hanam Atake, Marie-Gloriose Ingabire, Stephen Maluka, Joyce N. Mumah, Matilu Mwau, Mollyne Ndinya, Kenneth Ngure, Estelle M. Sidze, Charles Sossa, Abdramane Soura, Alex C. Ezeh
Feasibility of implementing a cellphone-based reminder/recall strategy to improve childhood routine immunization in a low-resource setting: a descriptive report
Victoria Bolanle Brown, O. Abimbola Oluwatosin
Analyzing implementation dynamics using theory-driven evaluation principles: lessons learnt from a South African centralized chronic dispensing model
Bvudzai Priscilla Magadzire, Bruno Marchal, Tania Mathys, Richard O. Laing, Kim Ward
Perceptions about data-informed decisions: an assessment of information-use in high HIV-prevalence settings in South Africa
Edward Nicol, Debbie Bradshaw, Jeannine Uwimana-Nicol, Lilian Dudley
Economic cost and quality of life of family caregivers of schizophrenic patients attending psychiatric hospitals in Ghana
Yaw Nyarko Opoku-Boateng, Irene A. Kretchy, Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey, Duah Dwomoh, Sybil Decker, Samuel Agyei Agyemang, Yesim Tozan, Moses Aikins, Justice Nonvignon
A descriptive study of treatment provision for problem alcohol drinking in adult males in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa
Amina Saban, Neo Morojele, Leslie London
Analysis of the impact of healthcare support initiatives for physically disabled people on their access to care in the city of Saint-Louis, Senegal
Diarra Bousso Senghor, Oumar Diop, Issa Sombié
Task shifting in the management of hypertension in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: a cross-sectional study
Aimée M. Lulebo, Didine K. Kaba, Silvestre E.-H. Atake, Mala A. Mapatano, Eric M. Mafuta, Julien M. Mampunza, Yves Coppieters
Health practitioners’ emotional reactions to caring for hospitalized children in Lomé, Togo: a qualitative study
Bassantéa Lodegaèna Kpassagou, Kokou Messanh Agbémélé Soedje
Measurement and analysis of inequality of opportunity in access of maternal and child health care in Togo
Yacobou Sanoussi