BMC Public Health
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Research article
How equitable are community health worker programmes and which programme features influence equity of community health worker services? A systematic review
Community health workers (CHWs) are uniquely placed to link communities with the health system, playing a role in improving the reach of health systems and bringing health services closer to hard-to-reach and …
Rosalind McCollum, Woedem Gomez, Sally Theobald and Miriam Taegtmeyer
BMC Public Health 2016 16:419
Published on: 20 May 2016

Research article
Using short-message-service notification as a method to improve acute flaccid paralysis surveillance in Papua New Guinea
High quality acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance is required to maintain polio-free status of a country. Papua New Guinea (PNG) is considered as one of the highest risk countries for polio re-importation…
Siddhartha Sankar Datta, Berry Ropa, Gerard Pai Sui, Ramzi Khattar, Ravi Shankar Santhana Gopala Krishnan and Hiromasa Okayasu
BMC Public Health 2016 16:409
Published on: 17 May 2016

Debate
Critiquing the response to the Ebola epidemic through a Primary Health Care Approach
The 2014/2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic has caused the global public health community to engage in difficult self-reflection.
Vera Scott, Sarah Crawford-Browne and David Sanders
BMC Public Health 2016 16:410
Published on: 17 May 2016

Research article
Associations in the continuum of care for maternal, newborn and child health: a population-based study of 12 sub-Saharan Africa countries
Despite the progress in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5, inequity in the utilization of maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) care services still remain high in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Patrick Opiyo Owili, Miriam Adoyo Muga, Yiing-Jenq Chou, Yi-Hsin Elsa Hsu, Nicole Huang and Li-Yin Chien
BMC Public Health 2016 16:414
Published on: 17 May 2016