Health challenges in Africa and the way forward

Kirigia, Joses Muthuri; Barry, Saidou

doi:10.1186/1755-7682-1-27

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“…Publication in high-status, refereed journals, for the most part published in English, has become an important route to academic success in the competitive environment of global higher education (Altbach 2014). Nicholas and Ritchie (1978) and Hertzel (1987) refer to the studies that assess the productivity of researchers as descriptive bibliometrics (sometimes called productivity count studies), where a description 2 Background to the study and problem statement Africa suffers from a myriad of medical and health challenges, including weak public health leadership and management; inadequate health-related legislations and their enforcements; limited community participation; extreme shortages of health workers; rampant corruption in procurement systems of medical products and technologies; a dearth of information and communication technologies; poor health financing; and lack of effective organisation and management of health services (Kirigia and Barry 2008). It is not surprising therefore to note that Africa is home to a heavy burden of both communicable and non-communicable diseases.…”

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Trends and patterns of medical and health research at Moi University, Kenya, between 2002 and 2014: an informetrics study

Rotich

Onyancha

2017

SAJLIS

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Research productivity and visibility are becoming increasingly important in the individual researcher's pursuit to build his or her research reputation, be promoted to the next academic rank within an institution and gain national and international recognition among peers. This paper analyses the research trends and patterns of the academic staff of the College of Health Sciences (CHS) at Moi University in Kenya between 2002 and2014 Conceptual settingResearch productivity and visibility is increasingly becoming important in the researcher's pursuit to build his or her research reputation, be promoted to the next academic rank within an institution, and gain recognition among peers nationally and internationally (Ocholla, Mostert and Rotich, 2016, Thomson Reuters 2008). Thomson Reuters (2008 notes that universities conduct an evaluation of their research performance in order to decide what research should be supported and what should not, or which research projects and researchers should receive more support than others, especially in areas where research funding is limited. Garfield (1996) has stressed the need for the assessment of researchers' productivity and impact amid dwindling research funds by stating that "in several countries where research funding is often highly political, many of the most deserving researchers receive a small fraction of research funds in contrast to parasites who hadn't published a paper for a decade or more". When measuring productivity and visibility, the global rankings count papers published in journals that are indexed in the main global indices -such as the Science Citation Index, Web of Science or Scopus, or their equivalents for other disciplines. Thomson Reuters (2008) states that the evaluation of research performance may help university leaders "understand the institution's position relative to global and domestic standards of research production: how much research is conducted? What is its impact? How many of the faculty members' articles are published in first-class journals? Is that number of publications increasing or decreasing?" Several authors (for example, Lancaster 1991, Jacobs 2002) have observed that evaluating individual or institutional research productivity and visibility involves the analysis of the number of publications produced, assessing the extent of collaboration, and determining the quality of research being conducted.Research productivity in academia has therefore generally been regarded in terms of the number of publications produced and published in peer-refereed journals per researcher. Publication in high-status, refereed journals, for the most part published in English, has become an important route to academic success in the competitive environment of global higher education (Altbach 2014). Nicholas and Ritchie (1978) and Hertzel (1987) refer to the studies that assess the productivity of researchers as descriptive bibliometrics (sometimes called productivity count studies), where a description of the characteristics or features of a litera...

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Trends and patterns of medical and health research at Moi University, Kenya, between 2002 and 2014: an informetrics study

Rotich

Onyancha

2017

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“…The high prevalence of public health diseases like HIV, multi-drug resistant TB and malaria urged the emergence of new medicines to tackle the diseases burden without proper therapeutic monitoring in many parts of the continent [8,9]. Despite the high probability of occurrence of ADRs in African countries, to-date, no nationwide ADR studies have been conducted.…”

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“…The African healthcare delivery system is immature and highly stretched which have inadequacy of well-trained healthcare professionals [8,9]. The high prevalence of public health diseases like HIV, multi-drug resistant TB and malaria urged the emergence of new medicines to tackle the diseases burden without proper therapeutic monitoring in many parts of the continent [8,9].…”

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Adverse Drug Reactions among Patients Admitted to Eritrean Hospitals: Prevalence Causes and Risk Factors a prospective analysis of 5848 patients

Russom¹,

Tesfai²,

Elias³

et al. 2017

IJP

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Background: Eritrea is one of the developing countries which has shortage of physicians at all levels. As a result, lower health cadres are authorized to prescribe medicines. In addition, due to shortages of laboratory setups, lab-based therapeutic monitoring is a challenge. The Eritrean society is also highly involved in self-medication; all these could have contributions to ADRs. Thus, the objective of the study is to investigate and analyze the prevalence, causes, and risk factors of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) among patients admitted to Eritrean hospitals.

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“…population and annual growth rate, literacy rate, per capita gross national income, adult literacy rate, cellular phone density, water and sanitation coverage (social determinants of health); health indicators, including neonatal, infant, under-five and adult mortality rates, maternal mortality ratio, cause specific mortality rates; health system challenges in leadership and governance, health services delivery and equity, health workforce, health financing, health technologies (essential medicines, vaccines, medical devises, infrastructure), and health management information systems; and national health research system (governance, creating resources for research, producing and using research, and financing of research) challenges [16,17,18,19].…”

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“…Forty percent of these health facilities are owned by government, 12.2% by mission, 10.8% by industries, 7.0% by private nurses, 22.7% by private doctors, and 7.3% by NGO. Out of the total number of health facilities, 42.25% are in Manzini, 28.6% in Hhohho, 16.7% in Lubombo, and 12.5% in Shiselweni [6].…”

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Swaziland National Health Research Agenda: The Formulation Process

2017

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Background: The objectives of this article are to describe the process followed in development of the Swaziland's national health research agenda (NHRA); and to provide an overview of the health research priorities that emerged from that process.Discussion: Swaziland followed a fifteen step process to develop it's NHRA, namely: search and review of the existing health research priority setting guidelines; situation analysis included review of Swaziland's health, health systems, national health research system, and socioeconomic indicators; identification of research stakeholders; identification of the preliminary main broad research themes; development of questionnaire on ranking of main research themes; workshops with each of the eight stakeholders; ranking of major health themes and identification of sub-themes; identification of research gaps under each sub-theme and main research areas; scoring of research areas; grouping of research areas by sub-themes and ranking; collating research areas ranked as number one in each sub-theme; providing content to the agenda; preparation of the zero NHRA draft report; preparation of the first NHRA draft report taking into account critical inputs from stakeholders; and stakeholder's final validation of the NHRA draft report. The paper provides an overview of communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases, sexual and reproductive health, injuries and health system research gaps under four categories of research: situation (burden and determinants); improvement of existing interventions; effectiveness of interventions; and feasibility of developing new capacities (tools and products).

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Health challenges in Africa and the way forward

Cited by 102 publications

References 4 publications

Trends and patterns of medical and health research at Moi University, Kenya, between 2002 and 2014: an informetrics study

Trends and patterns of medical and health research at Moi University, Kenya, between 2002 and 2014: an informetrics study

Adverse Drug Reactions among Patients Admitted to Eritrean Hospitals: Prevalence Causes and Risk Factors a prospective analysis of 5848 patients

Swaziland National Health Research Agenda: The Formulation Process

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