'Doing more with less': a qualitative investigation of perceptions of South African health service managers on implementation of health innovations

C Brooke-Sumner, P Petersen-Williams… - Health Policy and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Building resilience in health systems is an imperative for low-and middle-income countries.
Health service managers' ability to implement health innovations may be a key aspect of …

Diabetes care among urban women in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative study

E Mendenhall, SA Norris - BMC Public Health, 2015 - Springer
Background Escalation of non-communicable diseases such as Type 2 diabetes among low-
income populations in low-and middle-income countries presents challenges for health …

The role of 'social support'in the experience of fibromyalgia–narratives from S outh A frica

S Cooper, L Gilbert - Health & social care in the community, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper focuses on the role of 'social support'in the experience of fibromyalgia (a
musculoskeletal pain disorder) in South Africa. In‐depth semi‐structured interviews were …

Coping and compromise: a qualitative study of how primary health care providers respond to health reform in China

M Zhang, W Wang, R Millar, G Li, F Yan - Human resources for health, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Health reform in China since 2009 has emphasized basic public health
services to enhance the function of Community Health Services as a primary health care …

An exploratory study of the experience of fibromyalgia diagnosis in South Africa

S Cooper, L Gilbert - Health:, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Within the conceptual framework of 'medically-ill-defined'conditions, this article focuses on
the experiences of 'diagnosis' through a narrative analysis of fibromyalgia (a chronic …

[PDF][PDF] HEALTH SYSTEM RESILIENCE: REVIEW OF THE CONCEPT AND A FRAMEWORK FOR ITS UN-DERSTANDING

M Rohova, S Koeva - agenda, 2021 - journal-imab-bg.org
Resilience and capacity for resilience is an emerging concept in health system governance
and a comparatively new dimension of health systems performance, an area in which health …

How do pregnant women and new mothers navigate and respond to challenges in accessing health care? Perspectives from rural South Africa

CA Laurenzi, S Skeen, BJ Coetzee, S Gordon… - Social Science & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Women in low-and middle-income countries and in contexts characterized by inequality face
various interpersonal and structural barriers when accessing formal maternal and child …

Patient agency and contested notions of disability in social assistance applications in South Africa

G Kelly - Social Science & Medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Problems in fairly allocating welfare and health resources are very often located in the
spaces where citizens interact directly with state workers. This study draws on observations …

Process evaluation of a brief messaging intervention to improve diabetes treatment adherence in sub-Saharan Africa

N Leon, H Namadingo, S Cooper, K Bobrow… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background The SMS text Adherence suppoRt for people with type 2 diabetes
(StAR2D) intervention is a pragmatic randomised controlled trial, testing the effectiveness of …

Adaptation of the Texas Christian University Organisational Readiness for Change Short Form (TCU-ORC-SF) for use in primary health facilities in South Africa

C Brooke-Sumner, P Petersen-Williams, E Wagener… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives The Texas Christian University Organisational Readiness for Change Scale
(TCU-ORC) assesses factors influencing adoption of evidence-based practices. It has not …