Demand-side financing (DSF) interventions, including cash transfers and vouchers, have been introduced to promote maternal and newborn health in a range of low- and middle-income countries. These interventions vary in design but have typically been used to increase health service utilisation by offsetting some financial costs for users, or increasing household income and...
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National and transnational health care systems are rapidly evolving with current processes of globalisation. What is the contribution of the social sciences to an understanding of this field? A structured scoping exercise was conducted to identify relevant literature using the lens of India – a ‘rising power’ with a rapidly expanding healthcare economy. A five step search and...
Benjamin M Hunter 0 Jennifer H Requejo Ian Pope Bernadette Daelmans Susan F Murray 0 0 King's College London, International Development Institute , Chesham Building, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS , UK
Background Demand-side financing, where funds for specific services are channelled through, or to, prospective users, is now employed in health and education sectors in many low- and middle-income countries. This systematic review aimed to critically examine the evidence on application of this approach to promote maternal health in these settings. Five modes were considered...
Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London, London, UKDebra Bick AuthorsSearch for Susan F Murray in:PubMed • Google Scholar Search for Benjamin M Hunter in:PubMed • Google Scholar Search for Ramila
The complex relationship between globalization and health calls for research from many disciplinary and methodological perspectives. This editorial gives an overview of the content trajectory of the interdisciplinary journal ‘Globalization and Health’ over the first six years of production, 2005 to 2010. The findings show that bio-medical and population health perspectives have...
Aims/hypothesisTargeting regulators of adipose tissue lipoprotein lipase could enhance adipose lipid clearance, prevent ectopic lipid accumulation and consequently ameliorate insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Angiopoietin-like 8 (ANGPTL8) is an insulin-regulated lipoprotein lipase inhibitor strongly expressed in murine adipose tissue. However, Angptl8 knockout mice do not...
Background Nursing shortages and maldistribution are priority issues for healthcare systems around the globe. Such imbalances are often aggravated in underserved areas, especially in developing countries. Despite the centrality of this issue, there is a dearth of studies that examine the retention of nurses in underserved areas in the Middle East Region. This study investigates...
Nursing shortages and maldistribution are priority issues for healthcare systems around the globe. Such imbalances are often aggravated in underserved areas, especially in developing countries. Despite the centrality of this issue, there is a dearth of studies that examine the retention of nurses in underserved areas in the Middle East Region. This study investigates the...
Susan F Murray 3 0 Research Associate, Maternity Services Research Team, MUHAS , Dar es Salaam , Tanzania 1 Assistant Lecturer, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) , Dar es Salaam
Background Information on the extent of postpartum maternal morbidity in developing countries is extremely limited. In many settings, data from hospital-based studies is hard to interpret because of the small proportion of women that have access to medical care. However, in those areas with good uptake of health care, the measurement of the type and incidence of complications...
, London, UKSusan F Murray AuthorsSearch for Lisa Vallely in:PubMed • Google Scholar Search for Yusuf Ahmed in:PubMed • Google Scholar Search for Susan F Murray in:PubMed • Google Scholar Corresponding ... author Correspondence to Susan F Murray. Additional information Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests. Authors' contributions LV: Conceived of the study
The case for undertaking policy analysis has been made by a number of scholars and practitioners. However, there has been much less attention given to how to do policy analysis, what research designs, theories or methods best inform policy analysis. This paper begins by looking at the health policy environment, and some of the challenges to researching this highly complex...
of clinical skills in the family planning field (Johnson and Shereen Penny and Susan F Murray Lewison 1996). It is also used in the Life Saving Skills curriculum devised by the American College of ... after the training took place. The three objectives of the training covered aspects of quality of care, interpersonal Shereen Penny and Susan F Murray interaction and communication with the women, and
, including obstructed labour, it provides some indication about uptake of EOC. Caution does need to be exercised in using it as a measure of an effective referral Susan F Murray et al. system. It does not
themselves accountable for these wider political decisions and become easy scapegoats when things go wrong. Marie-Claude Foster and Susan F. Murray
Triantennary N-acetyl galactosamine (GalNAc, GN3), a high-affinity ligand for the hepatocyte-specific asialoglycoprotein receptor (ASGPR), enhances the potency of second-generation gapmer antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) 6–10-fold in mouse liver. When combined with next-generation ASO designs comprised of short S-cEt (S-2′-O-Et-2′,4′-bridged nucleic acid) gapmer ASOs, ∼60-fold...
Signaling through the phosphatidylinositol 3′-kinase (PI3K) pathway is crucial for metabolic responses to insulin, and defects in PI3K signaling have been demonstrated in type 2 diabetes. PTEN (MMAC1) is a lipid/protein phosphatase that can negatively regulate the PI3K pathway by dephosphorylating phosphatidylinositol (3,4,5)-triphosphate, but it is unclear whether PTEN is...
