Background Public health interventions are complex by nature, and their evaluation requires
unpacking their intervention logic and their interactions with open social systems. By …

This overview aims to stimulate conceptual and practical discussions to help unlock the full
potential of realist evaluation in health systems research. Based on a structured literature …

The psycho-social elements of labour and delivery are central to any woman's birth
experience, but international efforts to reduce maternal mortality in low-income contexts …

Purpose–The objective of this research is to investigate the success of TQM and barriers to
its successful implementation in health care services organizations in Isfahan province, Iran …

Background In the past decade, the negative impact of disrespectful maternity care on
women's utilisation and experiences of facility-based delivery has been well documented …

In attempting to use a realistic evaluation approach to explore the role of Community Parents
in early parenting programs in Toronto, a novel technique was developed to analyze the …

Background Realist evaluation offers an interesting approach to evaluation of interventions
in complex settings, but has been little applied in health care. We report on a realist case …

Objectives We aimed at exploring the underlying mechanisms and contextual conditions by
which leadership may influence 'public service motivation'of health providers in Moroccan …

In many low‐income countries, performance of pyramidal health systems with a public
purpose is not meeting the expectations and needs of the populations they serve. A question …

Background This paper presents the development of a study design built on the principles of
theory-driven evaluation. The theory-driven evaluation approach was used to evaluate an …