Midwives' attitudes to women in labour in Ghana

id 21 is hodted by the Institute of Development Studies and supported by the UK Departmrnt for Insternational Development

Challenges and Opportunities for Increased Policy Recognition of Family and Child Health and Wellbeing within the USA and Internationally

With thanks to Dr Rene Loewenson, TARSC, for inputs on the framework for the paper, scientific inputs and materials and internal peer review and technical edit. We acknowledge further the helpful comments from Erin Hagan, Evidence for Action, and from Victoria Brown and Claire Gibbon, RWJF, as external US peer reviewers.Publisher PD

Building back fairer in public health policy requires collective action with and for the most vulnerable in society

FUNDING: We acknowledge the University of Aberdeen for supporting the authors to conduct formative work on Strengthening Health Care Systems to Provide Care in the Community. Acknowledgements We acknowledge the University of Aberdeen for supporting the project. The authors gratefully acknowledge the inputs of Professor Tim Carey Director of the Institute of Global Health Equity Research at the University for Global Health Equity to earlier draftsPeer reviewedPublisher PD

Use of verbal autopsy and social autopsy in humanitarian crises

Data sharing statement Qualitative information is stored at a University of Aberdeen managed file-space. Data can be available upon prior permission from the University and the corresponding author can be contacted for further communication. Participants gave informed consent for data sharing. The research presented in this paper is supported by a programme grant as part of the Health Systems Research Initiative from the Department for International Development (DFID)/Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wellcome Trust/ Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (MR/P014844/1).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Verbal Autopsy in Health Policy and Systems : A Literature Review

The research presented in this paper is funded by the Health Systems Research Initiative from the Department for International Development (DFID)/ Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wellcome Trust/Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (MR/P014844/1).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

A protocol for a critical realist synthesis of school mindfulness interventions designed to promote pupils' mental wellbeing

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This research was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR 133712) using UK aid from the UK Government to support global health research.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Introducing visual participatory methods to develop local knowledge on HIV in rural South Africa

The authors would also like to acknowledge the field staff at the MRC/Wits Agincourt unit, particularly Ms Rirhandzu Debs and Dr Kerstin Edin from the Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, who facilitated data collection and made important contributions to the fieldwork.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

A review of health system infection control measures in developing countries: what can be learned to reduce maternal mortality

A functional health system is a necessary part of efforts to achieve maternal mortality reduction in developing countries. Puerperal sepsis is an infection contracted during childbirth and one of the commonest causes of maternal mortality in developing countries, despite the discovery of antibiotics over eighty years ago. Infections can be contracted during childbirth either in the community or in health facilities. Some developing countries have recently experienced increased use of health facilities for labour and delivery care and there is a possibility that this trend could lead to rising rates of puerperal sepsis. Drug and technological developments need to be combined with effective health system interventions to reduce infections, including puerperal sepsis. This article reviews health system infection control measures pertinent to labour and delivery units in developing country health facilities. Organisational improvements, training, surveillance and continuous quality improvement initiatives, used alone or in combination have been shown to decrease infection rates in some clinical settings. There is limited evidence available on effective infection control measures during labour and delivery and from low resource settings. A health systems approach is necessary to reduce maternal mortality and the occurrence of infections resulting from childbirth. Organisational and behavioural change underpins the success of infection control interventions. A global, targeted initiative could raise awareness of the need for improved infection control measures during childbirth

Burden of Mortality Linked to Community-nominated Priorities in Rural South Africa

Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank the community stakeholder study participants for agreeing to be part of the process, and for sharing their time, knowledge, and perspectives. Thanks also to the Verbal Autopsy with Participatory Action Research (VAPAR) team and staff of the Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), especially Simon Khoza, Sizzy Ngobeni and Ella Sihlangu. Funding information This work was supported by the medical research council (MRC) [MR/P014844/1].Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Prioritising and Mapping Barriers to Achieve Equitable Surgical Care in South Africa : A Multi-disciplinary Stakeholder Workshop

Funding This work was supported by The Academy of Medical Sciences Global Challenges Research Fund Networking Grant [grant number: GCRFNGR4\1036].Peer reviewedPublisher PD