Understanding health system responsiveness to public feedback at the sub-national level: Insights from Kilifi County, Kenya. by Nancy Kagwanja, Lucy Gilson, Benjamin Tsofa, Jill Olivier, Hassan Leli, Sassy Molyneux

“…Responsiveness is one of four health system goals alongside health outcomes, equity in financing and efficiency. …”
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Utilizing the Electronic Health Record to Evaluate Lipoprotein(a) Testing Within a Large Regional Health System by Kamil F. Faridi, MD, MSc, Qifan Wu, MS, Chungsoo Kim, PharmD, PhD, Erica S. Spatz, MD, MHS, Nihar R. Desai, MD, MPH, Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, Yuan Lu, ScD

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‘Never let a crisis go to waste’: post-Ebola agenda-setting for health system strengthening in Guinea by Alexandre Delamou, Delphin Kolie, Remco van de Pas, Nafissatou Dioubate, Patrice Bouedouno, Abdoul Habib Beavogui, Abdoulaye Kaba, Abdoulaye Misside Diallo, Willem Van De Put, Wim Van Damme

“…This article aims to explain why this situation exists and what were the roles of actors in the agenda-setting process of the post-Ebola health system strengthening programme. It also assesses threats and opportunities for this programme's sustainability.Methods We used Kingdon’s agenda-setting methodological framework to explain why actors promptly focused on the health sector reform after the Ebola outbreak. …”
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Obstetric care under the military health system: An analysis of active-duty women’s and female spouses’ online discussions by Amanda M. Rebhi

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Community health workers capacity in teaching skills and work-related stress: A study in Iranian health system by Zeinab Javadivala, Fatemeh Nazari, Shayesteh Shirzadi, Neda Gilani, Devender Bhalla

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Experience of Health System Personnel in the Implementation of Mass Distribution Campaigns for the Control of Lymphatic Filariasis in Rural Guinea in 2022 by Akoi Zoumanigui, Delphin Kolié, Lamine Lamah, Nouhou Konkouré Diallo, Aissata Tounkara, Hawa Manet, Mamadou Camara, Alexandre Delamou

“…This study documents the experiences of health system personnel in the implementation of mass distribution campaigns for the control of lymphatic filariasis in rural Guinea. …”
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Trends and changes in the relationship between quality and price in tenders for healthcare services in the Israeli health system, 2013–2023 by Adi Niv-Yagoda, Hadar Goldshtein

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The role of health system context in the design and implementation of performance-based financing: evidence from Cote d’Ivoire by Sebastian Bauhoff, Margaret E Kruk, Peter Berman, Denizhan Duran, Tania Gaudet, Clovis Konan, Emre Ozaltin

“…Low quality of care is a significant problem for health systems in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). …”
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An Insurance Value Modeling Approach That Captures the Wider Value of a Novel Antimicrobial to Health Systems, Patients, and the Population by Mei S. Chan, Richard Holloway, Robert King, Rosie Polya, Rebecca Sloan, Jack C. Kowalik, Tom Ashfield, Luke S.P. Moore, Thomas Porter, Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard

“…These approaches are generalizable to similar health interventions and form a framework for health systems and governments to capture broader value in health technology assessments, improve healthcare access, and increase resilience by planning for adverse scenarios.…”
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Using a participatory approach to identify priorities to advance LHS implementation at an academic medical center by Reid M. Eagleson, Madeline Gibson, Carletta Dobbins, Frederick Van Pelt, Allyson Hall, Larry Hearld, Andrea L. Cherrington, Jacob McMahon, Keith Tony Jones, Michael J. Mugavero

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Use of interrupted time series methods in the evaluation of health system quality improvement interventions: a methodological systematic review by Larry D Lynd, Mohammad Karamouzian, Michael R Law, Hinda Ruton, Celestin Hategeka

“…Background When randomisation is not possible, interrupted time series (ITS) design has increasingly been advocated as a more robust design to evaluating health system quality improvement (QI) interventions given its ability to control for common biases in healthcare QI. …”
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Imaging-Assisted Large-Format Breast Pathology: Program Rationale and Development in a Nonprofit Health System in the United States by F. Lee Tucker

“…This paper describes the successful creation of a large-format pathology program to routinely serve all patients in a busy interdisciplinary breast center associated with a community-based nonprofit health system in the United States.…”
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Barriers and facilitators to high-volume evidence-based innovation and implementation in a large, community-based learning health system by Cimone Durojaiye, Stephanie Prausnitz, Jennifer L. Schneider, Tracy A. Lieu, Julie A. Schmittdiel, Smita Rouillard, Yi-Fen Chen, Kristine Lee, Douglas A. Corley

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A cycle of invisibilisation: a qualitative study of Brazilian health system factors shaping access to long COVID care by Emma-Louise Aveling, Margareth Crisóstomo Portela, Letícia Soares, Bárbara Caldas, Brenda Sabaine, Flora Cornish

“…Few studies have examined health system factors influencing LC healthcare access, especially in the Global South. …”
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Rethinking health systems in the context of urbanisation: challenges from four rapidly urbanising low-income and middle-income countries by Helen Elsey, Tim Ensor, Tolib Mirzoev, Sushil Baral, Rumana Huque, Irene Agyepong, Bassey Ebenso, Zahidul Quayyem, Chandani Kharel, Riffat Ara Shawon, Obinna Onwujekwe, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Justice Nonvignon, Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey, Sumit Kane

“…The world is now predominantly urban; rapid and uncontrolled urbanisation continues across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Health systems are struggling to respond to the challenges that urbanisation brings. …”
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Assessing antimicrobial consumption in public and private sectors within the Costa Rican health system: current status and future directions by José Pablo Díaz-Madriz, Carolina Rojas-Chinchilla, Esteban Zavaleta-Monestel, Shing Mi Ching-Fung, Hugo Marin-Piva, Gustavo H Marin, Lucia Giangreco

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Creation of the Indigenous Support Line for health system navigation and culturally safe access to care: a quality improvement project by Kienan Williams, Cheryl Sheldon, Casey Eagle Speaker, Amber Ruben, Nadine McRee, Richard T Oster, Andrea Jackson, Lori Meckelborg, Sharon Berry, Madelaine Robillard, Kevin Osiowy, Alberta Health Services Wisdom Council Members

“…The Indigenous Support Line (ISL) was created based on the Wisdom Council’s advice to provide an Indigenous-specific concerns line, which later expanded into a telehealth line to address any health questions or access issues, including health system navigation and access to Western and Indigenous health and wellness supports. …”
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Health system interventions and responses to anti-microbial resistance: A scoping review of evidence from 15 African countries. by Jacob Albin Korem Alhassan, Clement Kamil Abdallah

“…According to the World Health Organization (WHO) this global health crisis is particularly acute in Africa, largely due to fragile and underfunded health systems. Efforts to combat this public health threat have led to the implementation of health system interventions worldwide aimed at managing and containing the spread of AMR. …”
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The scalar arrangements of three European public health systems facing the COVID-19 pandemic: Comparing France, Germany, and Italy by Olivier Giraud, Nikola Tietze, Tania Toffanin, Camille Noûs

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on conflict and health system–related violent events in Libya: An interrupted time series analysis by Tracy Kuo Lin, Kalin Werner, Mariam M. Hamza, Christopher H. Herbst

“…This study uses interrupted time series analyses to examine the impact of the pandemic on violent and non-violent political events—including health system-related violence—in Libya, which has been experiencing a protracted conflict since 2014. …”
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