BACKGROUND Immunization is the most cost-effective method to prevent and control vaccine-preventable diseases. Migrant population in China has been rising rapidly, and their immunization status is poor. China has tried various strategies to strengthen its health system, which has significantly improved immunization for migrants. METHODS This study applied a qualitative retrospective review me...

BACKGROUND Millions of dollars are invested annually under the umbrella of national health systems strengthening. Global health initiatives provide funding for low- and middle-income countries through disease-oriented programmes while maintaining that the interventions simultaneously strengthen systems. However, it is as yet unclear which, and to what extent, system-level interventions are bein...

Pharmaceutical products are indispensable for improving health outcomes. An extensive body of work on access to and use of medicines has resulted in an assortment of tools measuring various elements of pharmaceutical systems. Until now however, there has been little attempt to conceptualize a pharmaceutical system as an entity and define its strengthening in a way that allows for measuring syst...

Using fMRI, neural substrates of the executive system were investigated with respect to differences in working memory capacity. To explore the executive control processes, reading span test (RST) and read conditions were performed. Two subject groups were selected: those with large working memory capacities, labeled high-span subjects (HSS) according to the reading span test, and those with sma...

OBJECTIVE To explore the feasibility of health systems strengthening from the perspective of international healthcare implementers and donors in South Sudan. DESIGN A qualitative interview study, with thematic analysis using the WHO health system building blocks framework. SETTING South Sudan. PARTICIPANTS 17 health system practitioners, working for international agencies in South Sudan, ...

High-speed steel (HSS) tools are the most commonly used tools in small and medium-scale industry. Cryogenic treatment can be used to enhance the tool life. Studies on cryogenically treated (CT) cutting tools show micro structural changes in the material that can influence the life of the tools significantly. This paper primarily reports performance of CT HSS tools as compared to untreated (UT) ...

INTRODUCTION A health systems approach to understanding efforts for improving health care services is gaining traction globally. A component of this approach focuses on health system governance (HSG), which can make or mar the successful implementation of health care interventions. Very few studies have explored HSG in low- and middle-income countries, including Nigeria. Studies focusing on men...

Recently Bai and Yang in [On HSS-based iteration methods for weakly nonlinear systems, Appl. Numer. Math. 59 (2009) 2923–2936.] proposed the Picard-HSS iteration method to solve the system of nonlinear equations Ax = φ(x), where A ∈ Cn×n is a nonHermitian positive definite matrix and φ : D ⊂ C → C is continuously differentiable function defined on the open complex domain D in the n-dimensional ...

BACKGROUND The involvement of mental health service users and their caregivers in health system policy and planning, service monitoring and research can contribute to mental health system strengthening, but as yet there have been very few efforts to do so in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). METHODS This systematic review examined the evidence and experience of service user and caregi...

‘Hierarchical Semi-separable’ matrices (HSS matrices) form an important class of structured matrices for which matrix transformation algorithms that are linear in the number of equations (and a function of other structural parameters) can be given. In particular, a system of linear equations Ax = b can be solved with linear complexity in the size of the matrix, the overall complexity being line...