OBJECTIVES To assess community perceptions of mental illness in the Bwindi Community Hospital (BCH) catchment area: to recognise beliefs about the causes and the treatments for mental illness. To provide community data to staff at BCH as they work to develop more effective community mental health programmes. BACKGROUND A shortage of mental health providers in Uganda has prompted research into...

BACKGROUND The Charlotte-Mecklenburg region has one of the fastest growing Hispanic communities in the country. This population has experienced disparities in health outcomes and diminished ability to access healthcare services. This city is home to an established practice-based research network (PBRN) that includes community representatives, health services researchers, and primary care provid...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Engaging communities in authentic partnerships is increasingly accepted as best practice in both medicine and public health, despite the many barriers to doing so. New medical schools have an opportunity to incorporate community engagement into their very foundation. In rural northeast Pennsylvania, a new medical school used a regional health assessment to engage commu...

BACKGROUND Community health workers (CHWs) are a component of the health system in many countries, providing effective community-based services to mothers and infants. However, implementation of CHW programmes at scale has been challenging in many settings. AIM To explore the acceptability of CHWs conducting household visits to mothers and infants during pregnancy and after delivery, from the...

BACKGROUND Small-scale community health worker (CHW) programs provide basic health services and strengthen health systems in resource-poor settings. This paper focuses on improving CHW performance by providing individual feedback to CHWs working with an mHealth program to address malnutrition in children younger than 5 years. OBJECTIVE The paper aims to evaluate the immediate and retention ef...

BACKGROUND Being an important part of China's Urban Health Care Reform System, Community Health Centers (CHCs) have been established throughout the entire country and are presently undergoing substantial reconstruction. However, the services being delivered by the CHCs are far from reaching their performance targets. In order to assess the role of the CHCs, we examined their performance in six ...

Sir,?This, briefly, is the story of a real community health service amongst South African Indians. Tuberculosis is Public Health Enemy No. 1 amongst the non-white peoples of South Africa. The death rate for Indian people is five times that of the European while for Africans it has risen, in urban areas, to 746 per 100,000. One of the main reasons is the low economic standard of these people. Fo...

AIM This paper is a report of a scoping review examining children and young people's health services with respect to choice in order to inform future development of choice initiatives. BACKGROUND The importance of including children and young people in the choice agenda reflects the increasing acknowledgement that, individually and collectively, they are important consumers of health care in ...