Print media coverage of primary healthcare and related research evidence in South Africa
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Researchers in low- and middle-income countries need to be more proactive in making use of media analyses to help illuminate health related issues that require the attention of health policymakers, stakeholders and reporters, and to identify potential areas of research.Citations
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The United Nations Children's Fund
TL;DR: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) as mentioned in this paper was originally created to provide relief for children in countries devastated by the destruction of World War II, and in 1965, it was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for its humanitarian efforts.
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Using narratives to impact health policy-making: a systematic review.
Racha Fadlallah,Fadi El-Jardali,Mohamed Nomier,Nour Hemadi,Khurram Arif,Etienne V. Langlois,Elie A. Akl +6 more
TL;DR: Findings suggest that narratives may have a positive influence when used as inspiration and empowerment tools to stimulate policy inquiries, as educational and awareness tools to initiate policy discussions and gain public support, and as advocacy and lobbying tools to formulate, adopt or implement policy.
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Research on media framing of public policies to prevent chronic disease: A narrative synthesis
TL;DR: Media research is crucial to understanding the complex ways in which attitudes towards policy interventions shape, and are shaped by, public discourses and can provide public health advocates with insights into strategies to successfully position policy arguments, and highlights key insights and gaps.
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Health care waste management in community-based care: experiences of community health workers in low resource communities in South Africa.
Lydia Hangulu,Olagoke Akintola +1 more
TL;DR: The need for primary health care reform to develop the competencies of CHWs in HCWM is suggested and PHC and HCWM policies should address the infrastructure deficit in low resource communities.
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What does the media say about palliative care? A descriptive study of news coverage in written media in Spain.
José Miguel Carrasco,Miriam García,Alejandro Navas,Inés Olza,Beatriz Gómez-Baceiredo,Francesc Pujol,Eduardo Garralda,Carlos Centeno +7 more
TL;DR: The Spanish written media reflects the socio-political interest aroused by PC, but messages circulating about PC do not describe professional practice, or the contribution of the same for patients.
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Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases.
Simon Lewin,Susan Munabi-Babigumira,Claire Glenton,Karen Daniels,Xavier Bosch-Capblanch,Brian van Wyk,Jan Odgaard-Jensen,Marit Johansen,Godwin N. Aja,Merrick Zwarenstein,Inger B. Scheel +10 more
TL;DR: Evidence of moderate quality of the effectiveness of LHWs in promoting immunisation childhood uptake is found and low quality evidence that LHWs may reduce child morbidity is found.
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Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
TL;DR: In my comments on quality of life, I would like particularly to stress the needs generated by AIDS in developing countries, which are a fatal and often unmentionable disease.
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A systematic review of task- shifting for HIV treatment and care in Africa
TL;DR: Task shifting is an effective strategy for addressing shortages of HRH in HIV treatment and care and offers high-quality, cost-effective care to more patients than a physician-centered model.
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Importance of the lay press in the transmission of medical knowledge to the scientific community.
TL;DR: Columns in the Times that were covered by the Times received a disproportionate number of scientific citations in each of the 10 years after the Journal articles appeared, and the effect was strongest in the first year after publication.
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Assessing country-level efforts to link research to action
TL;DR: A framework for assessing country-level efforts to link research to action is developed and approaches to evaluation are addressed, how support is provided for rigorous evaluations of efforts tolink research toaction.