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  SDGs, inclusive health and the path to Universal Health Coverage

  Disability and the Global South, 2017

  The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of goals designed to improve the social, economic and well-being of all, while maintaining global and environmental sustainability. Health is one of the 17 goals, and focuses not only on addressing morbidity and mortality, but also on improving access to healthcare services for all through Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
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  Water and sanitation challenges and impact on health in informal settlements

  Future Health Systems research consortium, 2018

  Access to water is one of the major challenges faced by residents of Freetown, Sierra Leone, and informal settlements are no exception to this problem. Communities’ sources and access to water vary by location.
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  The challenges of institutionalizing community-level social accountability mechanisms for health and nutrition: a qualitative study in Odisha, India

  BioMed Central, 2018

  India has been at the forefront of innovations around social accountability mechanisms in improving the delivery of public services, including health and nutrition. Yet little is known about how such initiatives are faring now that they are incorporated formally into government programmes and implemented at scale. This brings greater impetus to understand their effectiveness.
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  Evidence and gap map of studies assessing the effectiveness of interventions for people with disabilities

  The Campbell Collaboration, 2018

  This evidence gap map was commissioned to draw together what is known about ‘what works’ for people with disabilities and identify gaps in evidence (i.e. areas where this is less or no evidence).
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  Global framework on people-centred and integrated health services

  Future Health Systems research consortium, 2017

  Future Health Systems research into empowering communities to demand and shape health services has informed the development of a WHO strategy on service delivery.The strategy reflects a paradigm shift towards an increased emphasis on preventive public health, as well as curative strategies, to address current and future health challenges.
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  Factors influencing non-institutional deliveries in Afghanistan: secondary analysis of the Afghanistan Mortality Survey 2010

  Nagoya University School of Medicine/Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya Japan, 2015

  Home delivery in unhygienic environments is common among Afghan women; only one third of births are delivered at health facilities. Institutional delivery is central to reducing maternal mortality.
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  Leaving them behind: healthcare services in situations of armed conflict

  Norwegian Red Cross, 2017

  In the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2016, the international community agreed to ‘leave no one behind’. However, the community is doing precisely that by failing to act as millions living in conflict-affected areas are deprived of access to healthcare services.
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  Community-based health care is an essential component of a resilient health system: evidence from Ebola outbreak in Liberia

  BioMed Central, 2017

  Trained community health workers (CHW) enhance access to essential primary health care services in contexts where the health system lacks capacity to adequately deliver them. In Liberia, the Ebola outbreak further disrupted health system function.
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  Implementing a basic package of health services in post-conflict Liberia: perceptions of key stakeholders

  Elsevier, 2013

  Recovery of the health sector in post-conflict countries is increasingly initiated through a Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) approach. The country government and partners, including international donors, typically contract international and local NGOs to deliver the BPHS.
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  Barriers to appropriate care for mothers and infants during the perinatal period in rural Afghanistan: a qualitative assessment

  Taylor and Francis Group, 2014

  This study, conducted in five rural districts in Afghanistan, used qualitative methods to explore traditional practices of women, families and communities related to maternal and newborn care, and sociocultural and health system issues that create access barriers.

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