Publications by authors named "Maggie Marx"
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- The ASSET project aims to strengthen health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa over four years, focusing on delivering high-quality care through participatory research methods.
- Key activities involve engaging diverse stakeholders—patients, clinicians, and policymakers—and using mixed methods like interviews and surveys to identify improvements needed in healthcare delivery.
- The pre-implementation phase emphasizes thorough analysis and collective input from stakeholders to develop effective Health System Strengthening Interventions (HSSIs) tailored to each region's unique health system dynamics.
Collaborative research partnerships are necessary to answer key questions in global mental health, to share expertise, access funding and influence policy. However, partnerships between low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and high-income countries have often been inequitable with the provision of technical knowledge flowing unilaterally from high to lower income countries. We present the experience of the Programme for Improving Mental Health Care (PRIME), a LMIC-led partnership which provides research evidence for the development, implementation and scaling up of integrated district mental healthcare plans in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa and Uganda.
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