Impact of a hospital improvement initiative in Bangladesh on patient experiences and satisfaction with services: two cross-sectional studiesKhalid Omer
CIET in Pakistan, PO Box 13018, Karachi 75350, Pakistan
BMC Health Serv Res 11:S10. 2011
..Two linked cross-sectional surveys in 2000 and 2003 assessed the impact of the HII, assessing both patients' experience and satisfaction and public views and use of the hospitals...
- Population weighted raster maps can communicate findings of social audits: examples from three continents
Steven Mitchell
CIETcanada, 1 Stewart Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 11:S14. 2011
..Little has been reported about the process of using maps to communicate epidemiological findings...
- Reducing corruption in a Mexican medical school: impact assessment across two cross-sectional surveys
Sergio Paredes-Solís
Centro de Investigacion de Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad Autonoma de Guerrero, Mexico
BMC Health Serv Res 11:S13. 2011
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- Use of social audits to examine unofficial payments in government health services: experience in South Asia, Africa, and Europe
Sergio Paredes-Solís
Centro de Investigacion de Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad Autonoma de Guerrero, Acapulco, Mexico
BMC Health Serv Res 11:S12. 2011
..We reviewed the main lessons from social audits of petty corruption in health services in South Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan), Africa (Uganda and South Africa) and Europe (Baltic States)...
- Does contracting of health care in Afghanistan work? Public and service-users' perceptions and experience
Anne Cockcroft
CIET Trust Botswana, PO Box 1240, Gaborone, Botswana
BMC Health Serv Res 11:S11. 2011
..Community-based information about the public's views and experience of health services is scarce...
- Health services reform in Bangladesh: hearing the views of health workers and their professional bodies
Anne Cockcroft
CIET Trust Botswana, PO Box 1240, Gaborone, Botswana
BMC Health Serv Res 11:S8. 2011
..To investigate whether the views of health workers influenced the reforms, we surveyed local health workers and held evidence-based discussions with local service managers and professional bodies...
- Reproductive and sexual health in the Maldives: analysis of data from two cross-sectional surveys
Anne Cockcroft
CIET Trust Botswana, PO Box 1240, Gaborone, Botswana
BMC Health Serv Res 11:S6. 2011
..The government commissioned two separate reproductive health surveys, in 1999 and 2004, to inform their efforts to improve reproductive and sexual health services...
- Household cost-benefit equations and sustainable universal childhood immunisation: a randomised cluster controlled trial in south Pakistan [ISRCTN12421731]
Neil Andersson
Centro de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales CIET, Universidad Autonoma de Guerrero, Acapulco, Mexico
BMC Public Health 5:72. 2005
..In the case of Lasbela district in the south of Pakistan, only one in every ten children is immunised despite free immunisation offers by government health services...
- Equity in HIV testing: evidence from a cross-sectional study in ten Southern African countries
Steven Mitchell
CIETcanada, 1 Stewart Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
BMC Int Health Hum Rights 10:23. 2010
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Community views of inter-generational sex: findings from focus groups in Botswana, Namibia and SwazilandAnne Cockcroft
CIET Trust Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
Psychol Health Med 15:507-14. 2010
..Making older men aware they are ridiculed by young women may be a promising approach, combined with interventions that give alternatives to young women and increase their self-worth...
- What happened to multiple sexual partnerships in Swaziland? Analysis of five linked national surveys between 2002 and 2008
Anne Cockcroft
CIET Trust Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
AIDS Care 22:955-60. 2010
..The recent increase in MP12 and MP1, especially among women, may reflect behaviour or it could reflect increased willingness to report...
- An inter-country comparison of unofficial payments: results of a health sector social audit in the Baltic States
Anne Cockcroft
CIETeurope, PO Box 8636, London SW6 2ZB, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 8:15. 2008
..Cross-country comparisons of unofficial payments in the health sector are sparse. In 2002 we conducted a social audit of the health sector of the three Baltic States...
- Devolution and public perceptions and experience of health services in Pakistan: linked cross sectional surveys in 2002 and 2004
Umaira Ansari
CIET Trust Botswana, PO Box 1240, Gaborone, Botswana
BMC Health Serv Res 11:S4. 2011
..Two national surveys examined public opinions, use, and experience of health services in 2001 and 2004, to assess the impact of devolution on these services from the point of view of the public...
- Gender-specific patterns of multiple concurrent sexual partnerships: a national cross sectional survey in Botswana
Ari Ho-Foster
CIET Trust Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
AIDS Care 22:1006-11. 2010
..Women with higher income were more likely to have more partners, questioning the idea that multiple concurrent partners is mainly a question of male disposable income...
- Gender-based violence and HIV: relevance for HIV prevention in hyperendemic countries of southern Africa
Neil Andersson
Centro de Investigacion de Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad Autonoma de Guerrero, Calle Pino, Acapulco, Mexico
AIDS 22:S73-86. 2008
..Effective interventions are likely to include a structural component, and a GBV awareness component...
- Minority health and small numbers epidemiology: a case study of living conditions and the health of children in 5 foreign Romá camps in Italy
Lorenzo Monasta
Unit for Health Services Research and International Health, Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy
Am J Public Health 98:2035-41. 2008
..We sought to test methods for generating epidemiological evidence on health conditions of small, dispersed minority communities...
- Global impact of AIDS on work
Anne Cockcroft
Department of Public Health Sciences, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK
Occup Environ Med 59:280-4. 2002
