Results: 4

Uncovering the Drivers of Childhood Immunization Inequality with Caregivers, Community Members and Health System Stakeholders: Results from a Human-Centered Design Study in DRC, Mozambique and Nigeria

Vaccine; 11 (689), 2023
Background: The importance of immunization for child survival underscores the need to eliminate immunization inequalities. Few existing studies of inequalities use approaches that view the challenges and potential solutions from the perspective of caregivers. This study aimed to identify barriers and con...

Benefits and challenges of consolidating public health functions into a National Public Health Institute: a policy analysis

Health policy plan; 38 (3), 2023
National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs) around the world vary in composition. Consolidated organizational models can bring together critical functions such as disease surveillance, emergency preparedness and response, public health research, workforce development and laboratory diagnosis within a singl...

Qualitative evaluation of enabling factors and barriers to the success and sustainability of national public health institutes in Cambodia, Colombia, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda and Zambia

BMJ Open; 14 (4), 2022
Objectives The success of National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs) in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) is critical to countries’ ability to deliver public health services to their populations and effectively respond to public health emergencies. However, empirical data are limited on fac...

Population-level data on antenatal screening for proteinuria; India, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan

Bull. W.H.O. (Print); 98 (10), 2020
To estimate the prevalence and prognosis of proteinuria at enrolment in the 27 intervention clusters of the Community-Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia cluster randomized trials. We identified pregnant women eligible for inclusion in the trials in their communities in four countries (2013–2017). We...