“Prolonged grief disorder” and “persistent complex bereavement disorder”, but not “complicated grief”, are one and the same diagnostic entity: an analysis of data from …

PK Maciejewski, A Maercker, PA Boelen… - World …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
There exists a general consensus that prolonged grief disorder (PGD), or some variant of
PGD, represents a distinct mental disorder worthy of diagnosis and treatment. Nevertheless …

Community mental health care worldwide: current status and further developments

G Thornicroft, T Deb, C Henderson - World Psychiatry, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper aims to give an overview of the key issues facing those who are in a position to
influence the planning and provision of mental health systems, and who need to address …

Trends in task shifting in HIV treatment in Africa: Effectiveness, challenges and acceptability to the health professions

T Crowley, P Mayers - African journal of primary health care & family …, 2015 - scielo.org.za
Results: Evidence suggests that task shifting is an effective strategy for addressing human
resource constraints in healthcare systems in many countries and provides a cost-effective …

How to assess and prepare health systems in low-and middle-income countries for integration of services—a systematic review

SM Topp, S Abimbola, R Joshi… - Health policy and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Despite growing support for integration of frontline services, a lack of information about the
pre-conditions necessary to integrate such services hampers the ability of policy makers and …

Potential facilitators and inhibitors to the implementation and sustainability of the community-based tuberculosis care interventions. A case study from Moshupa …

GA Sejie, OH Mahomed - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Eliminating Tuberculosis is one of the targets of Sustainable Development Goal
Three. Decentralizing TB care beyond health facilities by leveraging community involvement …

[HTML][HTML] Action plan for determining and monitoring the prevalence of chronic kidney disease

J Coresh, JR Hu, AK Bello, HI Feldman, AB Fogo… - Kidney international …, 2017 - Elsevier
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) continues to remain high globally, up to 13.4% by one
estimate. Although the number, geographic distribution, size, and quality of the studies …

Crossing borders: the PACK experience of spreading a complex health system intervention across low-income and middle-income countries

R Cornick, C Wattrus, T Eastman, CJ Ras… - BMJ Global …, 2018 - gh.bmj.com
Developing a health system intervention that helps to improve primary care in a low-income
and middle-income country (LMIC) is a considerable challenge; finding ways to spread that …

Process evaluation of an implementation strategy to support uptake of a tuberculosis treatment adherence intervention to improve TB care and outcomes in Malawi

LMP Ritchie, EC Kip, H Mundeva, M van Lettow… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To assess implementation and to identify barriers and facilitators to
implementation, sustainability and scalability of an implementation strategy to provide lay …

An evaluation of the implementation of cascade training for suicide prevention during the 'Choose Life'initiative in Scotland-utilizing Normalization Process Theory

L Gask, N Coupe, G Green - BMC health services research, 2019 - Springer
Background 'Cascade training'or 'train-the-trainers' has been widely utilised in the
dissemination of information and expertise in health and social care, but with little …

[HTML][HTML] Mid-level health providers (MLHPs) in delivering and improving access to primary health care services–a narrative review

V Chauhan, N Dumka, E Hannah, T Ahmed, A Kotwal - Dialogues in Health, 2023 - Elsevier
Background For primary healthcare systems to bring care closer to the communities, the
availability of appropriate human resources is crucial. The primary care workforce in the …