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Assessment of water, sanitation and hygiene services within nineteen Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in 2022

Butt S, Chowdhury MSR, Sadique S, Faisal AA, Mahama A,  et al.
2025-06-09 • BMC Health Services Research
2025-06-09 • BMC Health Services Research

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Since August 2017, approximately 960,000 Rohingya refugees have settled in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastruct...

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Evaluation of mobile clinics by MSF in pastoralist community in Doolo Zone, Somali region, Ethiopia

Sahelie B, Baertlein L, Dubad BA, Osman M, Post N,  et al.
2025-01-28 • BMC Health Services Research
2025-01-28 • BMC Health Services Research

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The Somali region in Ethiopia has poor health infrastructure, coupled with the adversity experienced by the largely pastoralist population through fr...

The introduction of video-enabled directly observed therapy (video-DOT) for patients with drug-resistant TB disease in Eswatini amid the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study

Kerschberger B, Daka M, Shongwe B, Dlamini T, Ngwenya S,  et al.
2024-06-03 • BMC Health Services Research
2024-06-03 • BMC Health Services Research

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Video-enabled directly observed therapy (video-DOT) has been proposed as an additional option for&nb...

Utilization of routine health data and its determinants among healthcare workers in public health facilities of harari region, eastern Ethiopia

Ayele G, Abera A, Ayele A, Gudina D, Firdisa D
2024-03-19 • BMC Health Services Research
2024-03-19 • BMC Health Services Research
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Routine health information is the pillar of the planning and management of health services and plays a vital role in effective and efficient health service delivery, decis...

The introduction of video-enabled directly observed therapy (video-DOT) for patients with drug-resistant TB disease in Eswatini amid the COVID-19 pandemic – a retrospective cohort study

Kerschberger B, Daka M, Shongwe B, Dlamini T, Ngwenya SM,  et al.
2023-08-09 • BMC Health Services Research
2023-08-09 • BMC Health Services Research
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Video-enabled directly observed therapy (video-DOT) has been proposed as an additional option for treatment provision besides in-person DOT for patients with drug-resistan...

"We have to learn to cooperate with each other": a qualitative study to explore integration of traditional healers into the provision of HIV self-testing and tuberculosis screening in Eswatini

Schausberger B, Mmema N, Dlamini V, Dube L, Aung A,  et al.
2021-12-06 • BMC Health Services Research
2021-12-06 • BMC Health Services Research
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Traditional healing plays an important role in healthcare in Eswatini, and innovative collaborations with traditional healers may enable hard-to-reach men to access HIV an...

Providing emergency care and assessing a patient triage system in a referral hospital in Somaliland: a cross-sectional study

Sunyoto T, Van der Bergh R, Valles P, Gutierrez RO, Ayada L,  et al.
2014-11-06 • BMC Health Services Research
2014-11-06 • BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundIn resource-poor settings, where health systems are frequently stretched to their capacity, access to emergency care is often limited. Triage systems have been proposed as a to...

Active and adaptive case finding to estimate therapeutic program coverage for severe acute malnutrition: a capture-recapture study

Isanaka S, Hedt-Gauthier BL, Salou H, Berthé F, Grais RF,  et al.
2019-12-16 • BMC Health Services Research
2019-12-16 • BMC Health Services Research
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Coverage is an important indicator to assess both the performance and effectiveness of public health programs. Recommended methods for coverage estimation for the treatmen...

Diabetes Care in a Complex Humanitarian Emergency Setting: A Qualitative Evaluation

Murphy A, Biringanine M, Roberts B, Stringer B, Perel P,  et al.
2017-06-23 • BMC Health Services Research
2017-06-23 • BMC Health Services Research
Evidence is urgently needed from complex emergency settings to support efforts to respond to the increasing burden of diabetes mellitus (DM). We conducted a qualitative study of a new mo...

Preparedness of outpatient health facilities for ambulatory treatment with all-oral short DR-TB treatment regimens in Zhytomyr, Ukraine: a cross-sectional study

Gils T, Laxmeshwar C, Duka M, Malakyan K, Siomak OV,  et al.
2020-09-21 • BMC Health Services Research
2020-09-21 • BMC Health Services Research
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Ukraine has a high burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). Mental health problems, including alcohol use disorder, are common co-morbidities. One in five DR-TB pati...

Utilization of the State Led Public Private Partnership Program "Chiranjeevi Yojana" to Promote Facility Births in Gujarat, India: a Cross Sectional Community Based Study

Yasobant S, Vora KS, Shewade HD, Annerstedt KS, Isaakidis P,  et al.
2016-07-15 • BMC Health Services Research
2016-07-15 • BMC Health Services Research
"Chiranjeevi Yojana (CY)", a state-led large-scale demand-side financing scheme (DSF) under public-private partnership to increase institutional delivery, has been implemented across Guj...

"Home is where the patient is": a qualitative analysis of a patient-centred model of care for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis

Horter SCB, Stringer B, Reynolds L, Shoaib M, Kasozi S,  et al.
2014-02-21 • BMC Health Services Research
2014-02-21 • BMC Health Services Research
Ambulatory, community-based care for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been found to be effective in multiple settings with high cure rates. However, little is known about p...

The Modified South African Triage Scale System for Mortality Prediction in Resource-Constrained Emergency Surgical Centers: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Massaut J, Valles P, Ghismonde A, Jacques CJ, Louis LP,  et al.
2017-08-23 • BMC Health Services Research
2017-08-23 • BMC Health Services Research
The South African Triage Scale (SATS) was developed to facilitate patient triage in emergency departments (EDs) and is used by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in low-resource environments...

A first country-wide review of diabetes mellitus care in Bhutan: time to do better

Zam K, Kumar AMV, Achanta S, Bhat PG, Naik B,  et al.
2015-09-17 • BMC Health Services Research
2015-09-17 • BMC Health Services Research
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There is an increasing trend of non-communicable diseases in Bhutan including Diabetes Mellitus (DM). To address this problem, a National Diabetes Control Programme was la...

Are they there yet? Linkage of patients with tuberculosis to services for tobacco cessation and alcohol abuse - a mixed methods study from Karnataka, India

Navya N, Jeyashree K, Madhukeshwar AK, Anand T, Nirgude AS,  et al.
2019-02-01 • BMC Health Services Research
2019-02-01 • BMC Health Services Research
Background: Tobacco use and alcohol abuse are associated with higher risk of tuberculosis (TB) infection, progression to active TB and adverse treatment outcomes among patients with TB. ...

Effect of previous utilization and out-of-pocket expenditure on subsequent utilization of a state led public-private partnership scheme "Chiranjeevi Yojana" to promote facility births in Gujarat, India

Yasobant S, Shewade HD, Vora KS, Annerstedt KS, Isaakidis P,  et al.
2017-04-25 • BMC Health Services Research
2017-04-25 • BMC Health Services Research
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In Gujarat, India, a state led public private partnership scheme to promote facility birth named Chiranjeevi Yojana (CY) was implemented in 2005. Institutional birth is pr...

Using Mobile Phones to Ensure that Referred Tuberculosis Patients Reach Their Treatment Facilities: A Call that Makes a Difference

Choun K, Achanta S, Naik B, Tripathy JP, Thai S,  et al.
2017-08-22 • BMC Health Services Research
2017-08-22 • BMC Health Services Research
Over the last decade, the availability and use of mobile phones have grown exponentially globally and in Cambodia. In the Sihanouk Hospital Centre of Hope(SHCH) in Cambodia about half of...

Picking up the bill - improving health-care utilisation in the Democratic Republic of Congo through user fee subsidisation: a before and after study

Maini R, Van der Bergh R, van Griensven J, Tayler-Smith K, Ousley J,  et al.
2014-11-05 • BMC Health Services Research
2014-11-05 • BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundUser fees have been shown to constitute a major barrier to the utilisation of health-care, particularly in low-income countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). ...

MSF experiences of providing multidisciplinary primary level NCD care for Syrian refugees and the host population in Jordan: an implementation study guided by the RE-AIM framework

Ansbro É, Homan T, Qasem J, Bil K, Tarawneh M,  et al.
2021-04-26 • BMC Health Services Research
2021-04-26 • BMC Health Services Research
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In response to the rising global NCD burden, humanitarian actors have rapidly scaled-up NCD services in crisis-affected low-and-middle income countries. Using the RE-AIM i...

Setting up a nurse-led model of care for management of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in a high HIV prevalence context in rural Zimbabwe: a descriptive study

Frieden M, Zamba B, Mukumbi N, Mafaune PT, Makumbe B,  et al.
2020-06-01 • BMC Health Services Research
2020-06-01 • BMC Health Services Research
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In the light of the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on health systems in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, contex...