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Improving measurement of tuberculosis care cascades to enhance people-centred care.
(Elsevier, 2023)
Care cascades represent the proportion of people reaching milestones in care for a disease and are widely used to track progress towards global targets for HIV and other diseases. Despite recent progress in estimating ...
High-quality health systems: time for a revolution in research and research funding
(Elsevier, 2019)
The launch of two landmark publications on the quality of care in the world's poorest populations, including The Lancet Global Health Commission on high-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era ...
Point-of-care tests to strengthen health systems and save newborn lives: The case of syphilis
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Poor rural populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not have access to diagnostic laboratories. Until recently, this has meant that they could not be screened for asymptomatic infections such as HIV or ...
Peruvian “Economic Success” in the Emergency Department: Close to Hell, No Place for Heaven
(Wiley, 2017)
The Peruvian story of 15 years of sustained economic growth is a commonly touted success story in a region known for economic uncertainty. Social statistics show that fewer people live below the poverty line, more have ...
Estimating Need, Demand and Supply in Primary Health Care Services: A Local Application in Argentina
(Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba, 2018-07)
To provide equal access, health care provision should be distributed across geodemographic space based on need. In Argentina, the social security, publicly funded health care and private health care subsectors are responsible ...
Diabetes care quality according to facility setting: A cross-sectional analysis in six Peruvian regions
(Elsevier, 2021)
OBJECTIVE: To characterize diabetes care across healthcare facilities in six Peruvian regions. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), ranging from primary care facilities to ...
Motivating provision of high quality care: it is not all about the money.
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)
Mylène Lagarde, Luis Huicho, and Irene Papanicolas discuss different strategies policy makers can use to motivate health providers in order to improve quality of care. The inclusion of universal health coverage as a target ...
Sex differences in health care-seeking behavior for acute coronary syndrome in a low income Country, Peru
(Wolters Kluwer Health, 2011)
Objective: Recognizing reasons for prehospital delay after symptoms of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is established in developed countries yet evidence from Latin America is limited. We aimed to assess ACS symptom recognition, ...
Provision of mental health care within primary care in Peru: A qualitative study exploring the perspectives of psychologists, primary health care providers, and patients
(F1000 Research, 2018)
Background: This study aimed to understand the offer of mental health care at the primary care level, collecting the views of psychologists, primary health care providers (PHCPs), and patients, with a focus on health ...
Health of migrants: simple questions can improve care - Authors' reply.
(Elsevier, 2019)
We thank Baltica Cabieses for describing the importance of simple innovation in addressing some of the challenges reported in the UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health, particularly regarding clinical consultations ...