Edited by Lola Adedokun, Lisa Hirschhorn and Abdul Ghaffar.
Volume 17 Supplement 3
Implementation science as an essential driver for sustainable health systems strengthening interventions: Lessons learned across the five-country African Health Initiative
Research
Publication of this supplement has been funded by the African Health Initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The articles have undergone the journal's standard peer review process for supplements. LA declares that she is the Director for the African Health Initiative which was the primary funder for the projects described in this supplement as well as the funder for the supplement itself. LH and AG declare that they have no competing interests.
-
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17(Suppl 3):773
-
Mentorship and coaching to support strengthening healthcare systems: lessons learned across the five Population Health Implementation and Training partnership projects in sub-Saharan Africa
Despite global efforts to increase health workforce capacity through training and guidelines, challenges remain in bridging the gap between knowledge and quality clinical practice and addressing health system ...
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17(Suppl 3):831 -
Research capacity building integrated into PHIT projects: leveraging research and research funding to build national capacity
Inadequate research capacity impedes the development of evidence-based health programming in sub-Saharan Africa. However, funding for research capacity building (RCB) is often insufficient and restricted, limi...
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17(Suppl 3):825 -
Measuring health systems strength and its impact: experiences from the African Health Initiative
Health systems are essential platforms for accessible, quality health services, and population health improvements. Global health initiatives have dramatically increased health resources; however, funding to s...
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17(Suppl 3):827 -
Tackling the hard problems: implementation experience and lessons learned in newborn health from the African Health Initiative
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s African Health Initiative supported the implementation of Population Health Implementation and Training (PHIT) Partnership health system strengthening interventions in de...
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17(Suppl 3):829 -
Improving data quality across 3 sub-Saharan African countries using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR): results from the African Health Initiative
High-quality data are critical to inform, monitor and manage health programs. Over the seven-year African Health Initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, three of the five Population Health Implemen...
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17(Suppl 3):828 -
Data-driven quality improvement in low-and middle-income country health systems: lessons from seven years of implementation experience across Mozambique, Rwanda, and Zambia
Well-functioning health systems need to utilize data at all levels, from the provider, to local and national-level decision makers, in order to make evidence-based and needed adjustments to improve the quality...
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17(Suppl 3):830 -
Health system strengthening: a qualitative evaluation of implementation experience and lessons learned across five African countries
Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in sub-Saharan Africa will require substantial improvements in the coverage and performance of primary health care delivery systems. Projects supporte...
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17(Suppl 3):826 -
Bridging the intervention-implementation gap in primary health care delivery: the critical role of integrated implementation research
For national and local leaders to achieve universal health coverage, a new approach or technique to gathering evidence and understanding the contexts that influence the outcome of a study and goes beyond the q...
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2017 17(Suppl 3):772
Follow
- ISSN: 1472-6963 (electronic)