Published in BMC Health Serv Res on May 09, 2009
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The financial burden from non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: a literature review. Health Res Policy Syst (2013) 2.20
An overview of cardiovascular risk factor burden in sub-Saharan African countries: a socio-cultural perspective. Global Health (2009) 2.09
Barriers to care among people living with HIV in South Africa: contrasts between patient and healthcare provider perspectives. AIDS Care (2012) 1.35
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Patterns and implications of medical pluralism among HIV/AIDS patients in rural South Africa. AIDS Behav (2011) 1.15
Engaging HIV care providers in conversations with their reproductive-age patients about fertility desires and intentions: a historical review of the HIV epidemic in the United States. Am J Public Health (2013) 1.11
Stage at breast cancer diagnosis and distance from diagnostic hospital in a periurban setting: a South African public hospital case series of over 1,000 women. Int J Cancer (2014) 1.05
The unfolding counter-transition in rural South Africa: mortality and cause of death, 1994-2009. PLoS One (2014) 1.02
Strengthening health systems by health sector reforms. Glob Health Action (2014) 1.00
Moving towards universal coverage in South Africa? Lessons from a voluntary government insurance scheme. Glob Health Action (2013) 0.96
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Disease burden of stroke in rural South Africa: an estimate of incidence, mortality and disability adjusted life years. BMC Neurol (2015) 0.92
Perspectives on healthcare, chronic non-communicable disease, and healthworlds in an urban and rural setting. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.92
Evaluating linkage to care for hypertension after community-based screening in rural Uganda. Trop Med Int Health (2014) 0.91
An analysis of auditory manifestations in a group of adults with AIDS prior to antiretroviral therapy. Afr J Infect Dis (2011) 0.89
Universal health coverage from multiple perspectives: a synthesis of conceptual literature and global debates. BMC Int Health Hum Rights (2015) 0.87
Community care workers, poor referral networks and consumption of personal resources in rural South Africa. PLoS One (2014) 0.86
A household perspective on access to health care in the context of HIV and disability: a qualitative case study from Malawi. BMC Int Health Hum Rights (2016) 0.85
Measuring women's perceived ability to overcome barriers to healthcare seeking in Burkina Faso. BMC Public Health (2012) 0.83
Factors associated with patterns of plural healthcare utilization among patients taking antiretroviral therapy in rural and urban South Africa: a cross-sectional study. BMC Health Serv Res (2012) 0.82
Access to HIV prevention and care for HIV-exposed and HIV-infected children: a qualitative study in rural and urban Mozambique. BMC Public Health (2014) 0.81
Frontline health workers as brokers: provider perceptions, experiences and mitigating strategies to improve access to essential medicines in South Africa. BMC Health Serv Res (2014) 0.81
A qualitative study of the experiences of care and motivation for effective self-management among diabetic and hypertensive patients attending public sector primary health care services in South Africa. BMC Health Serv Res (2015) 0.81
Reflections on the development of health economics in low- and middle-income countries. Proc Biol Sci (2014) 0.79
Quality of integrated chronic disease care in rural South Africa: user and provider perspectives. Health Policy Plan (2017) 0.78
Comparison in the incidence of anorectal malformations between a first- and third-world referral center. Pediatr Surg Int (2015) 0.78
Estimating cause of adult (15+ years) death using InterVA-4 in a rural district of southern Ghana. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.78
Inclusion of vulnerable groups in health policies: Regional policies on health priorities in Africa. Afr J Disabil (2013) 0.77
A telephone-based version of the spinal cord injury-secondary conditions scale: a reliability and validity study. Spinal Cord (2015) 0.77
"It is the medicines that keep us alive": lived experiences of diabetes medication use and continuity among adults in Southeastern Tanzania. BMC Health Serv Res (2015) 0.77
Adherence to anti diabetic medication among patients with diabetes in eastern Uganda; a cross sectional study. BMC Health Serv Res (2015) 0.76
A mother's choice: a qualitative study of mothers' health seeking behaviour for their children with acute diarrhoea. BMC Health Serv Res (2016) 0.75
International Medical Mission Facing Global Increase of Chronic Disease: 2-Year Experience in Bangladesh. J Korean Med Sci (2016) 0.75
Acceptable care? Illness constructions, healthworlds, and accessible chronic treatment in South Africa. Qual Health Res (2015) 0.75
A qualitative study of older adults seeking appropriate treatment to self-manage their chronic pain in rural North-East Thailand. BMC Geriatr (2015) 0.75
Relationships between structure, process and outcome to assess quality of integrated chronic disease management in a rural South African setting: applying a structural equation model. BMC Health Serv Res (2017) 0.75
Clinics and churches: lifeworlds and health-seeking practices of older women with noncommunicable disease in rural South Africa. BMC Int Health Hum Rights (2015) 0.75
Placement, support, and retention of health professionals: national, cross-sectional findings from medical and dental community service officers in South Africa. Hum Resour Health (2014) 0.75
"I don't have options but to persevere." Experiences and practices of care for HIV and diabetes in rural Tanzania: a qualitative study of patients and family caregivers. Int J Equity Health (2016) 0.75
The impact of multi-morbidity on disability among older adults in South Africa: do hypertension and socio-demographic characteristics matter? Int J Equity Health (2017) 0.75
Challenges Facing Successful Scaling Up of Effective Screening for Cardiovascular Disease by Community Health Workers in Mexico and South Africa: Policy Implications. Health Syst Policy Res (2016) 0.75
A Concept Mapping Study of Physicians' Perceptions of Factors Influencing Management and Control of Hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africa. Int J Hypertens (2015) 0.75
Proximity to healthcare clinic and depression risk in South Africa: geospatial evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal study. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol (2017) 0.75
Is it just religious practice? Exploring patients' reasons for choosing a faith-based primary health clinic over their local public sector primary health clinic. Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med (2017) 0.75
"All I Need Is Help to Do Well": Herbs, Medicines, Faith, and Syncretism in the Negotiation of Elder Health Treatment in Rural Ghana. J Relig Health (2017) 0.75
Household catastrophic health expenditure: a multicountry analysis. Lancet (2003) 20.07
A systematic review of delay in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis. BMC Public Health (2008) 8.49
The burden and costs of chronic diseases in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet (2007) 8.33
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Catastrophe and impoverishment in paying for health care: with applications to Vietnam 1993-1998. Health Econ (2003) 7.01
The economic burden of illness for households in developing countries: a review of studies focusing on malaria, tuberculosis, and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2004) 5.62
Implementing antiretroviral therapy in rural communities: the Lusikisiki model of decentralized HIV/AIDS care. J Infect Dis (2007) 5.27
Improving the quality of health care for chronic conditions. Qual Saf Health Care (2004) 4.93
Health seeking behaviour and health service utilization in Pakistan: challenging the policy makers. J Public Health (Oxf) (2004) 4.03
Human resources for treating HIV/AIDS: needs, capacities, and gaps. AIDS Patient Care STDS (2007) 3.84
Mortality trends in a new South Africa: hard to make a fresh start. Scand J Public Health Suppl (2007) 3.42
Treatment-seeking behaviour, cost burdens and coping strategies among rural and urban households in Coastal Kenya: an equity analysis. Trop Med Int Health (2007) 3.07
Task shifting for antiretroviral treatment delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: not a panacea. Lancet (2008) 2.89
Implementing culture change in health care: theory and practice. Int J Qual Health Care (2003) 2.36
Healer shopping in Africa: new evidence from rural-urban qualitative study of Ghanaian diabetes experiences. BMJ (2005) 2.10
Effects of prescription drug user fees on drug and health services use and on health status in vulnerable populations: a systematic review of the evidence. Int J Health Serv (2004) 1.92
MDGs: chronic diseases are not on the agenda. Lancet (2005) 1.83
Interpersonal and organizational dimensions of patient satisfaction: the moderating effects of health status. Int J Qual Health Care (2003) 1.59
The household costs of health care in rural South Africa with free public primary care and hospital exemptions for the poor. Trop Med Int Health (2009) 1.49
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Acute treatment and long-term management of stroke in developing countries. Lancet Neurol (2007) 1.41
The appropriate uses of qualitative methods in health economics. Health Econ (1999) 1.40
Audit of public sector primary diabetes care in Cape Town, South Africa: high prevalence of complications, uncontrolled hyperglycaemia, and hypertension. Diabet Med (1997) 1.24
Are health services protecting the livelihoods the urban poor in Sri Lanka? Findings from two low-income areas of Colombo. Soc Sci Med (2006) 1.23
Primary care management of diabetes in a low/middle income country: a multi-method, qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to care. BMC Fam Pract (2007) 1.16
Hospital workplace experiences of registered nurses that have contributed to their resignation in the Durban metropolitan area. Curationis (2006) 1.16
Using health and demographic surveillance to understand the burden of disease in populations: the case of tuberculosis in rural South Africa. Scand J Public Health Suppl (2007) 1.12
Job satisfaction of registered nurses in a community hospital in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. Curationis (2007) 1.07
Access to tuberculosis care: what did chronic cough patients experience in the way of healthcare-seeking? Scand J Public Health (2007) 1.05
Using in-depth qualitative data to enhance our understanding of quantitative results regarding the impact of HIV and AIDS on households in rural Uganda. Soc Sci Med (2008) 1.03
Coping with Africa's increasing tuberculosis burden: are community supervisors an essential component of the DOT strategy? Directly observed therapy. Trop Med Int Health (1997) 0.98
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Perceptions and treatment of diarrhoeal diseases in Cameroon. J Diarrhoeal Dis Res (1994) 0.91
Are International Asthma Guidelines effective for low-income Brazilian children with asthma? Eur Respir J (1998) 0.88
Development and validation of a knowledge test for health professionals regarding lifestyle modification. Nutrition (2003) 0.88
An investigation of compliance in type II diabetic patients attending clinic at Church of Scotland hospital. Curationis (1995) 0.80
Nutritional well-being of young children in Duncan Village, East London, South Africa: accessibility of primary health care clinics. Public Health Nutr (2005) 0.80
Overcoming health-systems constraints to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Lancet (2004) 15.43
Identification of functional elements and regulatory circuits by Drosophila modENCODE. Science (2010) 12.39
Conquering the intolerable burden of malaria: what's new, what's needed: a summary. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2004) 8.13
An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research. BMJ (2016) 7.49
'Doing' health policy analysis: methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges. Health Policy Plan (2008) 4.81
A cis-regulatory map of the Drosophila genome. Nature (2011) 4.80
Maternal health in poor countries: the broader context and a call for action. Lancet (2006) 4.72
Medicine sellers and malaria treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: what do they do and how can their practice be improved? Am J Trop Med Hyg (2007) 4.51
Access to artemisinin combination therapy for malaria in remote areas of Cambodia. Malar J (2008) 4.33
Health financing to promote access in low income settings-how much do we know? Lancet (2004) 4.31
The Millennium Development Goals: a cross-sectoral analysis and principles for goal setting after 2015 Lancet and London International Development Centre Commission. Lancet (2010) 4.24
Health systems and access to antiretroviral drugs for HIV in Southern Africa: service delivery and human resources challenges. Reprod Health Matters (2006) 4.15
Good Health at Low Cost 25 years on: lessons for the future of health systems strengthening. Lancet (2013) 4.03
The impact of response to the results of diagnostic tests for malaria: cost-benefit analysis. BMJ (2008) 4.02
The DrosDel collection: a set of P-element insertions for generating custom chromosomal aberrations in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics (2004) 3.71
Improving the health of the global poor. Science (2002) 3.69
Building the field of health policy and systems research: an agenda for action. PLoS Med (2011) 3.54
Mobilising financial resources for maternal health. Lancet (2006) 3.53
The cost-effectiveness of parasitologic diagnosis for malaria-suspected patients in an era of combination therapy. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2007) 3.44
Assessing capacity for health policy and systems research in low and middle income countries* Health Res Policy Syst (2003) 3.29
A comprehensive map of insulator elements for the Drosophila genome. PLoS Genet (2010) 3.25
Retail supply of malaria-related drugs in rural Tanzania: risks and opportunities. Trop Med Int Health (2004) 3.22
Building the field of health policy and systems research: framing the questions. PLoS Med (2011) 3.21
Health-financing reforms in southeast Asia: challenges in achieving universal coverage. Lancet (2011) 3.14
Financing of health systems to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals in low-income countries. Lancet (2010) 3.10
The DrosDel deletion collection: a Drosophila genomewide chromosomal deficiency resource. Genetics (2007) 3.08
Treatment-seeking behaviour, cost burdens and coping strategies among rural and urban households in Coastal Kenya: an equity analysis. Trop Med Int Health (2007) 3.07
'We are bitter but we are satisfied': nurses as street-level bureaucrats in South Africa. Soc Sci Med (2004) 3.04
Countdown to 2015: assessment of donor assistance to maternal, newborn, and child health between 2003 and 2006. Lancet (2008) 2.83
Is private health care the answer to the health problems of the world's poor? PLoS Med (2008) 2.82
Improving reproducibility and sensitivity in identifying human proteins by shotgun proteomics. Anal Chem (2004) 2.53
The economic impact of malaria in Africa: a critical review of the evidence. Health Policy (2003) 2.42
Drug shop regulation and malaria treatment in Tanzania--why do shops break the rules, and does it matter? Health Policy Plan (2007) 2.35
Countdown to 2015: assessment of official development assistance to maternal, newborn, and child health, 2003-08. Lancet (2010) 2.33
What can global health institutions do to help strengthen health systems in low income countries? Health Res Policy Syst (2010) 2.31
Scaling-up and sustaining insecticide-treated net coverage. Lancet Infect Dis (2003) 2.27
Factors influencing implementation of the Community Health Fund in Tanzania. Health Policy Plan (2007) 2.26
Cost-effectiveness of social marketing of insecticide-treated nets for malaria control in the United Republic of Tanzania. Bull World Health Organ (2003) 2.26
Likely health outcomes for untreated acute febrile illness in the tropics in decision and economic models; a Delphi survey. PLoS One (2011) 2.24
Do malaria control interventions reach the poor? A view through the equity lens. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2004) 2.23
Dual job holding by public sector health professionals in highly resource-constrained settings: problem or solution? Bull World Health Organ (2005) 2.22
Addressing social determinants of health inequities: what can the state and civil society do? Lancet (2008) 2.20
CTCF genomic binding sites in Drosophila and the organisation of the bithorax complex. PLoS Genet (2007) 2.12
Countdown to 2015: tracking donor assistance to maternal, newborn, and child health. Lancet (2006) 2.08
Removing user fees in the health sector: a review of policy processes in six sub-Saharan African countries. Health Policy Plan (2011) 2.07
Effect of removing direct payment for health care on utilisation and health outcomes in Ghanaian children: a randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med (2009) 2.05
Contextual influences on health worker motivation in district hospitals in Kenya. Implement Sci (2009) 2.02
Fisherfolk are among groups most at risk of HIV: cross-country analysis of prevalence and numbers infected. AIDS (2005) 2.01
From Mexico to Mali: progress in health policy and systems research. Lancet (2008) 1.99
Reproductive health priorities: evidence from a resource tracking analysis of official development assistance in 2009 and 2010. Lancet (2013) 1.95
An interactive model for the assessment of the economic costs and benefits of different rapid diagnostic tests for malaria. Malar J (2008) 1.90
What do we mean by rigorous health-systems research? Lancet (2008) 1.89
A comprehensive gene expression atlas of sex- and tissue-specificity in the malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae. BMC Genomics (2011) 1.88
Scaling up priority health interventions in Tanzania: the human resources challenge. Health Policy Plan (2007) 1.86
Countdown to 2015: changes in official development assistance to maternal, newborn, and child health in 2009-10, and assessment of progress since 2003. Lancet (2012) 1.86
Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: rationale for and challenges of guidance development. PLoS Med (2012) 1.81
Priorities for research on equity and health: towards an equity-focused health research agenda. PLoS Med (2011) 1.78
Health policy and systems research: defining the terrain; identifying the methods. Health Policy Plan (2011) 1.72
Intervention complexity--a conceptual framework to inform priority-setting in health. Bull World Health Organ (2005) 1.72
Stability and dynamics of polycomb target sites in Drosophila development. PLoS Genet (2008) 1.72
Cost-effectiveness of strategies to improve the utilization and provision of maternal and newborn health care in low-income and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2014) 1.70
Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: linking guidance development to policy development. PLoS Med (2012) 1.68
Developing a tool to measure health worker motivation in district hospitals in Kenya. Hum Resour Health (2009) 1.67
Learning from Thailand's health reforms. BMJ (2004) 1.61
Why are women still aborting outside designated facilities in metropolitan South Africa? BJOG (2005) 1.60
Promoting universal financial protection: how the Thai universal coverage scheme was designed to ensure equity. Health Res Policy Syst (2013) 1.58
Resources, attitudes and culture: an understanding of the factors that influence the functioning of accountability mechanisms in primary health care settings. BMC Health Serv Res (2013) 1.56
How to start thinking about investigating power in the organizational settings of policy implementation. Health Policy Plan (2008) 1.56
Cost of increasing access to artemisinin combination therapy: the Cambodian experience. Malar J (2008) 1.55
Genomic analysis of heat-shock factor targets in Drosophila. Genome Biol (2005) 1.53
People-centred science: strengthening the practice of health policy and systems research. Health Res Policy Syst (2014) 1.49
The household costs of health care in rural South Africa with free public primary care and hospital exemptions for the poor. Trop Med Int Health (2009) 1.49
The Affordable Medicines Facility--malaria: killing it slowly. Lancet (2012) 1.47
Differences in antiretroviral scale up in three South African provinces: the role of implementation management. BMC Health Serv Res (2010) 1.46
Evidence for differential and redundant function of the Sox genes Dichaete and SoxN during CNS development in Drosophila. Development (2002) 1.45
Classical versus relational approaches to understanding controls on a contract with independent GPs in South Africa. Health Econ (2003) 1.45
Disruption of microtubule integrity initiates mitosis during CNS repair. Dev Cell (2012) 1.43
Cost-effectiveness of malaria control interventions when malaria mortality is low: insecticide-treated nets versus in-house residual spraying in India. Soc Sci Med (2004) 1.37
Transposable elements as tools for genomics and genetics in Drosophila. Brief Funct Genomic Proteomic (2003) 1.36
The role of regulation in influencing income-generating activities among public sector doctors in Peru. Hum Resour Health (2007) 1.30
A review of health resource tracking in developing countries. Health Policy Plan (2007) 1.30
Genomic mapping of Suppressor of Hairy-wing binding sites in Drosophila. Genome Biol (2007) 1.29
Insect population control by homing endonuclease-based gene drive: an evaluation in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics (2011) 1.28
Actor management in the development of health financing reform: health insurance in South Africa, 1994-1999. Health Policy Plan (2004) 1.28
A tale of two visions: the changing fortunes of Social Health Insurance in South Africa. Health Policy Plan (2003) 1.28
Donor funding for newborn survival: an analysis of donor-reported data, 2002-2010. PLoS Med (2012) 1.27
The economics of malaria in pregnancy--a review of the evidence and research priorities. Lancet Infect Dis (2007) 1.27
Concentration and drug prices in the retail market for malaria treatment in rural Tanzania. Health Econ (2009) 1.25
Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems: showing the way forward. Bull World Health Organ (2010) 1.23
Strengthening cost-effectiveness analysis in Thailand through the establishment of the health intervention and technology assessment program. Pharmacoeconomics (2009) 1.23
Sex-specific apoptosis regulates sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila embryonic gonad. Dev Cell (2003) 1.23
Are health services protecting the livelihoods the urban poor in Sri Lanka? Findings from two low-income areas of Colombo. Soc Sci Med (2006) 1.23
Actor interfaces and practices of power in a community health worker programme: a South African study of unintended policy outcomes. Health Policy Plan (2012) 1.22
Scaling up health policies and services in low- and middle-income settings. BMC Health Serv Res (2010) 1.22
How can trust be investigated? Drawing lessons from past experience. Soc Sci Med (2005) 1.21