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Front Public Health
December 2024
Kangda College of Nanjing Medical University, Lianyungang, China.
Introduction: In the context of ageing at home and in the community, healthcare services for older adult people in China are mainly provided by primary care physicians (PCPs). This study aimed to understand the level of geriatric healthcare service capability of PCPs in China and to give recommendations for improving care.
Methods: We surveyed PCPs in the eastern, central, and western regions of China, using a combination of multi-stage stratified cluster sampling and typical sampling.
Int J Equity Health
January 2025
Discipline of Podiatry, School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University, Dharawal Country, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia.
Increasing use of co-design concepts and buzzwords create risk of generating 'co-design branded' healthcare research and healthcare system design involving insincere, contrived, coercive engagement with First Nations Peoples. There are concerns that inauthenticity in co-design will further perpetuate and ingrain harms inbuilt to colonial systems.Co-design is a tool that inherently must truly reposition power to First Nations Peoples, engendering both respect and ownership.
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January 2025
Department of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Mkwawa University College of Education, Iringa, Tanzania.
Introduction: The introduction of the HIV self-test kit in the early 2000s was a major breakthrough in combating HIV. This study determines the social demographic and sexual behaviour driving the use of HIV self-test kits.
Method: The study used secondary data obtained from Tanzania DHS-MIS 2022.
BMC Public Health
January 2025
KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Background: Access to healthcare is a major challenge in South Sudan, but evidence on the factors influencing health seeking behaviour (HSB) and the magnitude of their effect is limited. This study aims to identify which determinants are associated with seeking care for perceived health needs and with seeking care at private or public healthcare facilities in South Sudan.
Methods: A cross-sectional household survey was conducted in three purposefully-selected states (Central Equatoria, Western Equatoria and Warrap).
BMC Health Serv Res
January 2025
Reform Office, Strategy, Policy and Reform Division, Queensland Health, Floor 13, 33 Charlotte Street, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia.
Background: Commissioning for health services has been implemented as one approach to improve the quality and access to healthcare for First Nations, regional and remote populations. This review systematically scoped the literature for studies that described or evaluated the governance, funding, implementation and outcomes from health service commissioning targeting these groups in Canada, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the United States (CANZUS nations).
Methods: Seventeen databases were searched for relevant peer reviewed and grey literature studies published in English from 2010 to 2023.
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