BACKGROUND In Tanzania, and many sub-Saharan African countries, postpartum health programs have received less attention compared to other maternity care programs and therefore new parents rely on informal support. Knowledge on how informal support is understood by its stakeholders to be able to improve the health in families after childbirth is required. This study aimed to explore discourses o...

Purpose This study simultaneously explores the nexus among formal, semiformal and informal credit markets farm households' demand determinants in Vietnam. Design/methodology/approach uses a multistage stratified random sampling process for survey of 648 smallholder farmers Red River Delta (RRD), The trivariate probit model (TVPM) is used to address interdependence demands different markets. Fin...

Collaborative drug therapy management agreements are a strategy for expanding the role of pharmacists in team-based care with other providers. However, these agreements have not been widely implemented. This study describes the features of existing provider-pharmacist collaborative drug therapy management practices and identifies the facilitators and barriers to implementing such services in co...

The demographic landscape of Norway is diversifying. These changes present challenges for frontline professionals working with immigrant parents raising children disabilities. This article explored service providers’ perspectives on the they face in delivering services to adolescents and young adults disabilities aged 16–25. study generated qualitative data from seven informants different state...

BACKGROUND Successful point-of-care testing, namely ensuring the completion of the test and treat cycle in the same encounter, has immense potential to reduce diagnostic and treatment delays, and impact patient outcomes. However, having rapid tests is not enough, as many barriers may prevent their successful implementation in point-of-care testing programs. Qualitative research on diagnostic pr...

As a transmissible, airborne disease, tuberculosis (TB) is a classic public health issue, and the majority of TB prevention and care efforts globally have focused on the public-sector role. However, in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, respectively, 49% and 81% of all patients present initially to private or informal (nonqualified) providers [1]. Many of those patients have TB symptoms and a s...

BACKGROUND In most societies the health marketplace is pluralistic in character, with a mix of formal and informal providers. In high-income countries, state regulation of the market helps ensure quality and access and mitigate market failures. In the present study, using Haiti as a case study, we explore what happens to the functioning of the pluralistic health marketplace in severely disrupte...