Wendy Janssens

TL;DR: Hypertension was the most frequently observed risk factor for CVD in both urban and rural communities in SSA and will contribute to the growing burden of CVD on sub-Saharan Africa.

TL;DR: There is the need to intensify client education and balanced commitment to technical and perceived quality improvement efforts to enhance client confidence in Ghana’s healthcare system, stimulate active participation in the national health insurance, increase healthcare utilization and ultimately improve public health outcomes.

TL;DR: The authors assesses how low-income households in rural Kenya coped with the immediate economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic using granular financial data from weekly household interviews covering six weeks before the first case was detected in Kenya to five weeks after during which various containment measures were implemented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of a women empowerment program in India on trust and cooperation, using data on 2,000 households, and found that households who do not participate in the program themselves but who live in a program village are significantly more trusting and more likely to engage in collective action than households in control villages.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that health insurance status matters in the perceptions of healthcare quality, which implies that healthcare quality may be shaped by individual experiences at the health facilities, where the insured and uninsured may be treated differently.