Identifying Positive Practices to Institutionalize Social Innovation in the Malawian Health System.

Background: Governments worldwide are increasingly interested in scaling up effective public health innovations, but it is not always easy to institutionalize innovations, arising outside the public health system, as a part of national delivery. Evidence on how country governments can practically achieve this is limited. This article describes the institutionalization of the Chipatala Cha Pa Foni (CCPF, Health Center by Phone) social innovation into the Malawian public health, and identifies positive institutional practices that local actors drew on to achieve this.

Application of a TB care cascade to a novel household contact intervention in rural South Africa.

Four clinics implemented an intervention to increase TB household contact identification and evaluation in rural Eastern Cape, South Africa. We applied a care cascade framework to assess gaps in evaluation and treatment initiation from April 2021 to June 2023. We identified 1,698 contacts of 287 individuals with TB.

A Template Thematic Analysis of Self-Concept and Self-Compassion in People Living With Endometriosis: Analysis of Qualitative Survey Responses.

Aims: To explore the influence of endometriosis on an individual's self-concept and the potential applicability of self-compassion in addressing alterations to self-concept.

Design: Qualitative deductive template analysis study.

Methods: Written reflections completed by women (n = 157) with a self-reported diagnosis of endometriosis were reviewed using a deductive template approach to gain an understanding of how people living with endometriosis view themselves in the face of the diagnosis.

"No doctor ever asked me…so I thought it wasn't a valid concern": endometriosis patients' perspectives of barriers and facilitators to sexual health communication in general practice.

Background: Sexual health communication between general practitioners (GPs) and individuals with chronic diseases is well documented as an important component of sexual well-being. However, a notable gap exists in understanding factors that contribute to sexual health communication in the endometriosis context. Endometriosis-related research has focused on the assessment of sexual functioning and its role in influencing health-related quality of life, with a limited understanding of the management of sexual well-being in primary healthcare settings.