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Title First
Name
Last Name Affiliation City Country
2093 Building resilience through multisector
partnerships: Examining the practice of
'One Health' collaborations for
zoonoses preparedness and response
in India
Syed Abbas Institute of
Development
Studies
Brighton United
Kingdom
2637 Análisis socio-histórico de la relación
entre parteras tradicionales y salud
comunitaria en el sistema de salud
Colombiano
Maria
Ximena
Abello University of
Massachusett
s
Amherst United
States
384 Community values and preferences for
universal health coverage reform: A
mixed methods study in Malawi
Gilbert Abiiro University for
Development
Studies,
Ghana
Wa Ghana
3030 Factors influencing the choice of
Divorce as a solution to domestic
violence among married men and
women in Lagelu local government oyo
state, Nigeria.
Odedere Abolaji University of
Ibadan
Ibadan Nigeria
2893 The Impact of Using mHealth to Engage
Men in Maternal Health
Phaeba Abraham HealthBridge,
India Office
Ottawa Canada
282 Community participation and the right to
health for the disabled: A qualitative
study into Health Committees’
understanding and practise of
governance in relation to disability.
Theodore Abrahams University of
Cape Town
Cape
Town
South
Africa
1643 Integrated mother-newborn registers
and interface with community structures
at peripheral level facilities enables real
time population level estimates on key
maternal health indicators
Muhibbul Abrar Save the
Children
Bangladesh
Dhaka Banglades
h
1180 Measuring the prevalence of disrespect
and abuse along the birthing process:
Implications for developing and
measuring interventions
Timothy Abuya Population
Council
Nairobi Kenya
1934 Referral to health facilities in Kenya:
Factors that support community health
volunteers in linking the community and
health systems
Maryline Achieng LVCT Health,
Kenya
Nairobi Kenya
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770 Health Systems Analysis of a
Community-based Malaria Elimination
Program in Ruhuha, Rwanda
Ibukun-
Oluwa
Adepoju Department of
Health
Promotion,
Maastricht
University,
Maastricht,
The
Netherlands
Maastrich
t
Netherlan
ds
985 Innovative Strategies to Strengthen
Health System Resilience and Equity in
Nepal’s Fragile State
Damodar Adhikari Health for Life
(H4L), RTI
International
Lalitpur Nepal
525 MANAGEMENT MATTERS IN
IMPROVEMENT OF HOSPITAL
PERFORMANCE: A CASE OF NEPAL
Shiva Adhikari Tribhuvan
University,
Kathmandu
Nepal
Lalitpur Nepal
1055 ENGAGING COMMUNITY
VOLUNTEERS IN CASE
MANAGEMENT OF FEVER AMONG
UNDER-FIVES: EXPERIENCE FROM
A RURAL SETTING IN SOUTH-
WESTERN NIGERIA
CHINENY
E
AFONNE UNIVERSITY
OF GHANA,
LEGON,
ACCRA,
GHANA
ACCRA,
GHANA
GHANA
2041 Health Risks & Vulnerbailities; A Case
Study of Internally Displaced People
and Refugees In The Refugee Camps
of Pakistan
Junaid Ahmad Asian Institute
of
Technology,
Thailand
Khlong
Luang,
Pathumth
ani,
Thailand
3241 Adverse Selection Problem in Voluntary
Enrollment of Community Based Health
Insurance among Informal worker –an
EQ-5D Assessment
Sayem Ahmed International
Centre for
Diarrhoeal
Disease
Research,
Bangladesh
(icddr,b)
Dhaka Banglades
h
2552 How does access and use of electronic
devices for health information seeking
in Bangladesh look through the equity
lens?
Tanvir Ahmed Institute of
Development
Studies,
University of
Sussex
Brighton United
Kingdom
262 Doesn’t the current definition of
catastrophic expenditure represent just
the tip of iceberg? Hidden out-of-pocket
payments in Vietnam
Hirotsugu Aiga Japan
International
Cooperation
Agency (JICA)
Tokyo Japan
3273 Increasing Citizens Participation and
Local Control of Health and Wellness
Programming in the Canadian Arctic -
Lessons Learned from Nunavut
Victor Akande Government
of Nunavut
Department of
Health
Iqaluit Canada
3051 Challenges to Implementation of
Community Based Health Insurance in
Ukana West Ward II : Policy
Implications for Universal Health
Coverage in Nigeria
Christie Akwaowo Univeristy of
Uyo
Uyo Nigeria
15 Assessing the Impact of Community
Engagement Interventions on Health
Worker Motivation and Experiences
with Clients in Primary Health Facilities
in Ghana: A
Randomized Cluster Trial
Robert Alhassan Department of
Epidemiology,
Noguchi
Memorial
Institute for
Medical
Research,
University of
Ghana,
Legon, Ghana
Accra Ghana
2453 Financing Obstacles for Primary Health
Care: A case study in fourteen districts
of five provinces in Indonesia
Pungkas Ali United
Nations
Children's
Fund
(UNICEF)
Jakarta Indonesia
659 How do the poor households cope with
health Shocks? Experiences from a
cross-sectional study in Uganda.
Alex Aliga Policy
Analysis and
Development
Research
Institute
(PADRI)
Kampala Uganda
2896 Bridging the communication gap in
Early Infant Diagnosis with mHealth
initiative in Manyara Region,Tanzania
annette almeida EngenderHeal
th
Dar es
Salaam
Tanzania
892 Non-formal Health Care Providers in
Bangladesh: Responsible for Vulnerable
Exposure of High-Generic Antibiotics
among Rural Communities
Kazi Alom Nutrition and
Clinical
Services
Division,
icddr,b
Dhaka Banglades
h
1182 How pay-for-performance may succeed
or fail to improve health systems
performance: A systems dynamic model
of the pay-for-performance strategy in
Afghanistan
Olakunle Alonge Johns
Hopkins
Bloomberg
School of
Public Health
Baltimore United
States
1966 Reusable surgical gowns and gloves - a
cost effective measure or sustainable
reality?
Mrinalini Anand The University
of Sheffield
Sheffield United
Kingdom
2096 Exploring communities and community-
based care programmes innovations in
leveraging care for chronic conditions at
primary healthcare in Southern Malawi.
VIBIAN ANGWEN
YI
PhD
candidate,
Vrije
University
Amsterdam
(Athena
Institute)
Amsterda
m
Netherlan
ds
32 Do computerised decision-support
systems and performance-based
incentives improve client satisfaction
with maternal health services in
northern Ghana?
Gifty Aninanya Navrongo
Health
Research
Centre
Navrongo Ghana
626 Evaluating social inclusion: effects of
community life with people with mental
illness from their neighbors’ perspective.
A study in Buenos Aires Province,
Argentina.
Sara Ardila-
Gómez
National
University of
Lanús,
Argentina
Lanús Argentina
1626 Dimensiones de la desigualdad en la
mortalidad por cáncer de mama en
Colombia
MONICA ARELLAN
O
MAESTRIA
EN
EPIDEMIOLO
GIA -
UNIVERSIDA
D DEL
NORTE
BARRAN
QUILLA
Colombia
170 Equidad en el acceso a la sanidad
pública ecuatoriana: la influencia del
aseguramiento
Grace Armijos
Bravo
Erasmus
University
Rotterdam
Rotterda
m
Netherlan
ds
1726 Legal and Policy regulatory barriers to
effective Health and HIV Services for
Key Populations in the East African
Community region
Martin Atela African
Institute for
Development
Policy
Nairobi Kenya
1470 Faciliter l'accès des plus démunies à
l'offre de services de santé de qualité à
moindre cout : exemple des
polycliniques communautaires au
Sénégal
Cheikh ATHIE ONG Action &
développeme
nt "Acdev"
Dakar Senegal
2708 Grossesses précoces en Bolivie : entre
résignation locale et résilience
internationale
Amélie AUBERT
PLARD
Université
Paris Ouest
Nanterre La
Défense
92001
NANTER
RE
Cedex
France
517 Health systems development in
Thailand 1975-2015: lessons for low-
and middle-income countries
Anton L.V. Avanceña University of
California,
San Francisco
Global Health
Group
San
Francisco
United
States
2171 LA RÉSILIENCE DU SYSTÈME DE
SANTÉ AU BÉNIN FACE
À L’ÉMERGENCE DES CAS DE
TUBERCULOSE MULTIRÉSISTANTE
Bérénice AWANOU Programme
National
contre la
Tuberculose/C
etre National
Hospitalier et
Universitaire
de Pneumo-
phtisiologie de
Cotonou
Cotonou Benin
142 The Application of Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) to Improving
Health Systems in the Upper East
Region of Ghana
JOHN AWOONO
R-
WILLIAMS
GHANA
HEALTH
SERVICE
ACCRA GHANA
609 A qualitative appraisal of stakeholder
reactions to a tool for burden of disease-
based health system budgeting in
Ghana
John Koku Awoonor-
Williams
Ghana Health
Service
Accra Ghana
1761 Is the Health System Ready to Respond
to the Burden of Non-Communicable
Diseases (NCDs)? Health Facility
Assessment in Myanmar (2015)
Nyein Aye Department of
Medical
Research,
Ministry of
Health
Yangon Burma
1389 Performance of selected respiratory
rate timers and pulse oximeters for the
diagnosis of symptoms of mild and
severe pneumonia in children at the
community level
Kevin Baker Malaria
Consortium,
UK
London United
Kingdom
3047 Patient-centred health systems
appraisal for effective non-
communicable disease control. An
application to Colombia and Malaysia
Dina Balabanov
a
London
School of
Hygiene &
Tropical
Medicine
London United
Kingdom
599 Drivers of health system strengthening:
learning from implementation of
maternal and child health programmes
in Mozambique, Nepal and Rwanda
Dina Balabanov
a
Overseas
Development
Institute
London United
Kingdom
1064 Better Governance and Institutional
Architecture- A Key to Efficient
Procurement of Medical Consumables
in Kerala, India
Ravi
Kumar
Balu Public Health
Foundation of
India
Gurgaon India
2752 Are women of Indian Sundarbans living
in the Dark? A gender analysis of eye
health in the Indian Sundarbans for
responsive health systems
Debjani Barman IIHMR
University
Kolkata India
3218 Evaluating the Costs and Efficiency of
Integrating Family Planning Services
into HIV and AIDS Treatment Services
in Zambia
Elaine Baruwa Abt
Associates,
Inc.
Bethesda United
States
1536 Improving health services and women’s
self-determination and leadership in
post-conflict settings
Louise Bashige IMA World
Health,
Kinshasa,
Democratic
Republic of
Congo
Kinshasa Congo
(Kinshasa)
492 Australian Aboriginal community
controlled health services:
Implementation of a model of
comprehensive primary health care and
lessons for other communities
Fran Baum Flinders
University
Adelaide,
South
Australia
Australia
2399 Assessing the Management Capacity of
Liberia’s Ministry of Health to Build a Fit-
for-Purpose Health Workforce
Luke Bawo Ministry of
Health, Liberia
Monrovia Liberia
1013 Reducing patient referral challenges to
avert maternal deaths at the district
level: A qualitative study in Northern
Ghana
Vitalis Bawontuo School of
Public Health,
University of
Ghana, Legon
Legon-
Accra
Ghana
3323 A strategic approach to contraceptive
introduction: a case study of meeting
the reproductive health needs of post-
abortion care clients in mainland
Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Colin Baynes EngenderHeal
th
New
York,
10001
United
States
1062 A conceptual framework for merging
social health insurance schemes: a
qualitative policy analysis
Mohamma
d
Bazyar Tehran
University of
Medical
Sciences
Tehran Iran
1416 A preventive package of nutrition
interventions increases attendance at
monthly well-baby consultations after 6
months of age: preliminary results from
a cluster-randomized control trial
Elodie Becquey International
Food Policy
Research
Institute
Dakar Senegal
1329 Le diagnostic du système économique
de la réadaptation fonctionnelle dans
les pays à revenu faible et
intermédiaire, une étape fondamentale
Rozenn BEGUIN
BOTOKRO
CERDI
(Centre de
Recherches et
d'Etudes sur
le
Développeme
nt
International),
Handicap
International
Lyon France
558 High Performance Domiciliary
Healthcare Service: moving forward
health system's capacity borderline
Daniel Beltrammi Municipal
Hospital
Complex
São
Bernardo
do
Campo
Brazil
822 Resilient and responsive Health
Systems: The imperative need for a
paradigm shift
Margarita Bernales Universidad
del Desarrollo
Santiago Chile
2313 Niger’s Child Survival Success:
Contributing Factors to Health System
Resilience and Challenges to
Sustainability
Donela Besada South African
Medical
Research
Council
Cape
Town
South
Africa
336 The challenges in implementing the
WHO Framework Convention on
tobacco control and assessing its
implications for health policy in India
Shweta BhardwajFHI 360 New
Delhi
India
2915 Impact of Health System Strengthening
on reduction of Inequities in
Reproductive and Child Health in India
Salima Bhatia Sr.
Consultant,
Ministry of
Health &
Family
Welfare, India
New
Delhi
India
1781 Socioeconomic inequity and Chronic
Non-Communicable Diseases in
Bangladesh: Findings from a
Nationwide Survey
Tuhin Biswas icddr,b Dahaka Health
Systems
and
Population
studies
Division
42 Developing a theory-based behaviour
change intervention to support
adherence to high blood pressure
treatment delivered by mobile phone
text message in a low resource setting
Kirsten Bobrow Chronic
Diseases
Initiative for
Africa (CDIA),
Cape Town,
South Africa
and the
Division of
Diabetic
Medicine and
Endocrinology
, Department
of Medicine,
University of
Cape Town,
Cape Town,
South Africa
Cape
Town
South
Africa
288 Analyse de mécanismes de
pérennisation de projets de santé en
République Démocratique du Congo.
Cas de projet PARSS à Kinshasa
Franck Boembi Ministère de la
Santé
Publique/Divisi
on provinciale
de la Santé de
l'Equateur
Mbandak
a
Congo
(Kinshasa)
2002 Measuring proximate determinates of
the quality of health services: Impact
evaluation results from a performance-
based financing intervention in the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
Annette Bongiova
nni
International
Business &
Technical
Consultants,
Inc. [IBTCI]
Vienna
Virginia
United
States
2347 FROM CLINICAL PRACTICE
GUIDELINES TO PATIENTS
GUIDELINES VERSION: beyond the
scientific process, a communicative and
sociocultural work.
Lina Bonilla
Mahecha
National
University of
Colombia
Bogotá
D.C.,
Colombia
Colombia
1267 Using Mass Media to impact Health
Policy-making: A Systematic Review
Lama Bou-
Karroum
American
University of
Beirut,
Lebanon
Beirut Lebanon
2432 Understanding the Resilience of
Informal Health Providers: a Social
Network Analysis from Indian
Sundarbans
RITTIKA BRAHMAC
HARI
Institute of
Health
Management
Research
(IIHMR)
University
KOLKAT
A
India
978 The Political Economy of Establishing
Monitoring & Evaluation Institutions: A
comparative analysis of Chile,
Colombia, Mexico, South Africa, and
Uganda
Jesse Bump Harvard TH
Chan School
of Public
Health
Boston,
MA
United
States
499 Introducing the ‘Taming Wicked
Problems Framework’: lessons learnt,
future directions
Chris Burman University of
Limpopo
Polowane South
Africa
1046 Improving voluntary medical male
circumcision standards, adherence and
post-procedure follow-up in Uganda: A
mixed methods study
John Byabagam
bi
USAID
Applying
Science to
Strengthen
and Improve
Systems
Project
Kampala Uganda
2186 IMPROVEMENT OF LONG TERM
RISKS OF CARDIOVASCULAR
EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH
COMMUNITY BASED DISEASE
MANAGEMENT IN CHINESE
PATIENTS OF THE XIN JIANG
AUTONOMOUS REGION OF CHINA
Minzhang Cai Peking
university
Beijing China
3445 ACCEPTATION DU VACCIN CONTRE
LE VIRUS EBOLA PAR LA
COMMUNAUTE EN GUINEE
Soriba Camara Amref Health
Africa,
Programme
Guinée
Conakry Guinea
3352 Strengthening the preventive
component of the Adult's and Elder's
health program: preventive
interventions, new age groups and
reporting redesign.
Jesica Candaned
o
Ministry of
Health
Panama Panama
3197 Management of PAHO/WHO Nursing
and Midwifery Collaborating Centers’
Activities and Terms of References
Toward Improvement and Innovation in
Health Services and Systems
Silvia Cassiani Pan American
Health
Organization/
World Health
Organization
Washingt
on, DC
United
States
1604 Perception of health providers support
for the use of contraceptive methods in
women
Lucia Caudillo-
Ortega
Departamento
de Enfermería
y Obstetricia
sede
Guanajuato,
Universidad
de
Guanajuato
Guanajua
to
Mexico
2240 Emerging Purchasing Mechanism and
Payment Methods in Health Insurance
in India: A Case Study of Chief Minister
Health Insurance Scheme in Tamil
Nadu
Arpita Chakrabor
ty
Public Health
Foundation of
India
Gurgaon India
3288 Evaluating Priority setting for health
research in Low income counries:
Frameworks and Experiences.
Pascalina Chanda MCMAMSTE
R
UNIVERSITY
HAMILTO
N
Canada
1792 Impact of the policy to freeze posts on
the deployment of health workers after
the crisis in rural Zimbabwe
Pamela ChandiwanaBiomedical
Research and
Training
Institute
Harare Zimbabwe
3193 PROVIDER ABUSE AND
DISCRIMINATION DURING
CHILDBIRTH IN UTTAR PRADESH,
INDIA
Dharmend
ra
Chandurk
ar
Sambodhi
Research &
Communicatio
ns Pvt. Ltd.
Noida India
1093 Modeling approaches to capture health
system performance: a systematic
review of the literature
Angela Chang Harvard T.H.
Chan School
of Public
Health
Boston United
States
2469 A survey of nurses’ perceived practice
environment in an acute care hospital in
Hong Kong
Janita Chau The
Nethersole
School of
Nursing,
Faculty of
Medicine, The
Chinese
University of
Hong Kong
Hong
Kong
Hong
Kong
2191 Factors impacting continuous availability
of comprehensive emergency obstetric
and neonatal care services in Nepal
with a focus on the comprehensive
emergency obstetric care fund
Pushpa Chaudhar
y
Department of
Health
Services,
Ministry of
Health and
Population
Kathman
du
Nepal
2015 The Development of an international
Practice Guidelines Registry Platform
YAOLON
G
CHEN Evidence
Based
Medicine
Center of
Lanzhou
University
LANZHO
U
China
73 Impact of Provider Competition under
Global Budgeting on the Use of
Cesarean Section
Bradley Chen Institute of
Public Health,
National Yang-
Ming
University
Taipei Taiwan
1164 Internal migration and mental health in
China: evidence from a national cross
sectional survey
Wen Chen Sun Yat-sen
Center for
Migrant Health
and Policy,
School of
Public Health,
Sun Yat-sen
University.
Guangzh
ou
China
1950 Citizen Voice and Action (CVA): A
People Centered approach to
developing and sustaining a resilient
health system
Dennis Cherian World Vision Washingt
on DC
United
States
2565 Transition away from donor support -
what is the impact on national
immunization program, experience from
two Southeastern European countries
Ivdity Chikovani Curatio
International
Foundation
Tbilisi Georgia
2395 Top 10 priorities for strengthening of
public sector health care service
delivery system of Bangladesh:
Perceptions of the relevant stakeholders
Mahbub Chowdhur
y
International
Centre for
Diarrhoeal
Disease
Research,
Bangladesh
(icddr,b)
Dhaka Banglades
h
307 The Dynamic of Non-Communicable
Disease Policies in Indonesia: An
Application of Actor Network Theory
(ANT)
Yodi Christiani University of
Newcastle
New
Lambton
Heights
Australia
1481 Governing quality in health care on the
path to UHC: a review of 25 country
experiences
Altea Cico Abt
Associates
Bethesda,
MD
United
States
294 Should large urban centres decide how
best to use health care services
Suzanne Clarke Dalhousie
University
Halifax Canada
3342 Provision of mobile health consultations
in school setting to improve sexual and
reproductive health among adolescents
in Bolivia
Kathya
Lorena
Cordova
Pozo
South Group -
research
institute
Cochaba
mba
Bolivia
859 EVALUACIÓN DE LA EFICIENCIA
TÉCNICA Y FINANCIERA DE
HOSPITALES PÚBLICOS DE TERCER
NIVEL DE ATENCIÓN A TRAVÉS DE
UNIDADES DE VALOR RELATIVO
2010 – 2014
Ariel Cortés Ministerio de
Salud
Bogota Colombia
2231 Applying Niklas Luhmann’s Social
Systems Theory to Health Systems –
how does it fit?
João Costa Swiss Tropical
and Public
Health
Institute
Basel Switzerlan
d
273 Ten years of the International Finance
Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) –
lessons from a qualitative study of
IFFIm stakeholders.
Tim Crocker-
Buque
London
School of
Hygiene and
Tropical
Medicine
London United
Kingdom
1555 Novel indicators for the NCDs impact
surveillance and health systems
response: results from a pilot study in
Chile.
Cristóbal
A.
Cuadrado
Nahum
Escuela de
Salud Pública,
Universidad
de Chile.
Santiago Chile
1903 Capturing community priorities: using
participatory action research to examine
child mortality in the Agincourt Health
and Demographic Surveillance Site,
South Africa
Lucia D'Ambruo
so
University of
Aberdeen
Aberdeen United
Kingdom
2468 Tackling Vietnam health inequalities for
depressive patients by novel integration
of evidence-based supported self-
management for depression into
primary care
Linh Dang Institute of
Population,
Health and
Development
Hanoi Vietnam
349 The introduction of a comprehensive
hospital-based intervention program for
primary caregivers of children with
severe acute malnutrition in Malawi
Allison Daniel The Hospital
for Sick
Children,
Toronto,
Canada
Toronto Canada
1701 Partnership with Government for
improving health, nutrition and
sanitation outcomes and accountability
using community platforms–innovative
strategies and interventions under
Jeevika Technical support Program
(JTSP)
Rajshree Das Project
Concern
International
New
Delhi
India
2212 Negotiating health system
defensiveness and building ownership:
experiences from selected districts of
four Indian states
Jashodhar
a
Dasgupta SAHAYOG Lucknow India
2769 Implementation of a Neonatal Hepatitis
B Immunization Program in the Fragile-
State Health System Context of Karenni
State, Myanmar
Colleen Davison Queen's
University
Kingston,
ON
Canada
754 The role of health systems research on
health policy formulation processes in
developing economies
Kyler Dembe Green World
Uganda
(GWU),
Masaka,Ugan
da
Masaka Uganda
645 Improving knowledge and behaviours
related to Tuberculosis and early case
detection: a descriptive study of
community led Tuberculosis program in
Flores, Indonesia
Christa Dewi University
Centre for
Rural Health,
the University
of Sydney
Lismore,
NSW
Australia
3206 An integrated approach towards value
based evaluations to support
responsiveness in large-scale health
systems addressing inequities
Arnab Dey Sambodhi
Research &
Communicatio
ns Pvt. Ltd.
Noida India
3359 Women Leadership in Global Health--
Contributing to Health System
Resilience
Roopa Dhatt Women in
Global
Health/Wome
n Leaders in
Global Health
Initiative-
Global Health
Council
Washingt
on DC
United
States
839 Is the novel injectable contraceptive
DMPA-SC delivered through community-
based approaches cost-effective
compared to traditional DMPA-IM? New
evidence from Uganda.
Laura Di Giorgio Health
Economist,
PATH,
Seattle, USA
Seattle United
States
258 Decision making in the treatment of
schizophrenia: Evidence from a
Mexican psychiatric hospital.
Lina Díaz-
Castro
Ministry of
Health and
Psychiatric
Hospital Fray
Bernardino
Álvarez.
México,
D. F.
Mexico
123 Assessing the effects of malaria
interventions on the geographical
distribution of parasitaemia risk in
Burkina Faso
Eric Diboulo Centre de
Recherche en
Santé de
Nouna
(CRSN)
Nouna Burkina
Faso
2197 Locating the intervention: Exploring
context of a complex health service
intervention to improve care for malaria
in Uganda
Deborah DiLiberto London
School of
Hygiene &
Tropical
Medicine
London United
Kingdom
805 Strengthening government primary
healthcare system through social
franchising in rural Viet Nam: the “tinh
chi em” (Sisterhood) model
Nhuan Dinh Marie Stopes
International
Vietnam
Ha noi Vietnam
2632 Negotiating gendered hierarchies and
power relations: a qualitative study of
ASHAs’ perceptions and experiences of
their role in promoting maternal health
in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Vishal Diwan Liverpool
School of
Tropical
Medicine
Liverpool United
Kingdom
3028 Health Sector Operational Planning &
Budget Allocation Processes in Ghana
& Ivory Coast
Joseph Dodoo UNICEF Dakar Senegal
1715 Evaluating the Principles in Which the
Decisions about Pivotal Matters in
Iranian Health System Are Made
Leila Doshman
gir
1Department
of Health
Services
Management,
Iranian Center
of Excellence
in Health
Management,
School of
Management
and Medical
Informatics,
Tabriz
University of
Medical
Sciences,
TAbriz, Iran.
Tel:09809104
090070 Email:
Doshmangirl
@tbzmed.ac.ir
, Leiladosh
TAbriz IRan
2987 Measuring the effects of male
involvement on women’s health seeking
behavior
during pregnancy in Ghana, West Africa
Leanne DoughertyJSI Rosslyn United
States
2866 Cultivating leaders to strengthen health
systems: A novel masters program at
the University of Global Health Equity in
Rwanda
Peter Drobac University of
Global Health
Equity
Kigali Rwanda
3190 Les conséquences néfastes de la
réintroduction du paiement direct dans
les centres de santé de Kaya, Burkina
Faso
Thomas Druetz Tulane
University
New
Orleans
United
States
1646 Enhancing health system resilience of
Mongolia:
Public spending on Non-communicable
diseases –more is needed for
prevention
Otgontuya Dugee Monash
University
Melbourn
e
Australia
3054 Difficult Choices in Health Care
Decision in Pre-During-Post conflict
Country: A Case in Sierra Leone Using
Life History.
Joseph Edem-
Hotah
College of
Medicine and
Allied Health
Sciences,
University of
Sierra Leone
Freetown Sierra
Leone
666 Enhancing TB case detection and
diagnosis Amongst People Living with
HIV/AIDS Utilizing Peripheral TB
laboratory service-delivery networks:
Experiences from Northern Nigeria
Ginika Egesimba Management
Sciences for
Health
Abuja,
F.C.T,
Nigeria
Nigeria
3406 Working Women in Saudi Arabia:
Patient and Practitioner Attitudes in
Public and Private Hospitals
Maram Elsayed Jeddah Eye
Hospital
Jeddah Saudi
Arabia
3148 Deciphering action amongst the
rhetoric: an evaluation of priority-setting
for NCD control in Uganda
Beverley Essue University of
Sydney;
McMaster
University
Hamilton Canada
1579 STRATEGIC PURCHASING FOR UHC
IN THE FORMAL SECTOR SOCIAL
HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAMME
IN NIGERIA: THE PURCHASER-
PROVIDER RELATIONSHIP
ENYI ETIABA HEALTH
POLICY
RESEARCH
GROUP
ENUGU Nigeria
1229 Implementation of District-based
Clinical Specialist Teams in South
Africa: Analysing new roles in a
transforming system.
John Eyles Centre for
Health Policy
& Medical
Research
Council Health
Policy
Research
Group, School
of Public
Health,
Faculty of
Health
Sciences,
University of
the
Witwatersrand
, South Africa.
Johannes
burg
South
Africa
2332 Spoilers or Facilitators? Local Elite and
the Community Governance of Health
Centres in post-Conflict Burundi
Jean-
Benoît
Falisse Oxford
University
Oxford United
Kingdom
957 Improving Occupational Health in
Khambhat, India: Protective Practices,
Barriers, and Opportunities to Reduce
Agate Exposure
Lindsey Falk University of
Toronto
Toronto Canada
1746 Does the new maternal health care
reform effect? A analysis of maternal
antenatal and postnatal care visits in
Shaanxi province of China
Xiaojing Fan Xi’an
Jiaotong
University
Xi’an China
2133 Use of ‘m’ technology for Infant death
verbal death autopsies: Experience
from tribal district of Western India
Manishku
mar
Fancy District
Panchayat
Sabarkantha
HImatnag
ar
India
2321 What gets measured gets done: What
is the status of data quality and its use
for different health programmes?
Adama Faye London
School of
Hygiene and
Tropical
Medicine
London UK
2831 Rede Governo Colaborativo em Saúde:
una estrategia de articulación inter-
institucional que promueve
cooperaciones internacionales.
Alcindo Ferla Universidade
Federal do
Rio Grande do
Sul
Porto
Alegre
Brazil
1815 COMPARACIÓN DE PERSPECTIVAS
DE TRABAJADORES, USUARIOS Y
FAMILIARES EN LA EVALUACIÓN DE
SERVICIOS DE SALUD MENTAL:
HERRAMIENTA ESTRATÉGICA PARA
LA TRANSFORMACIÓN DEL
SISTEMA DE SALUD
Marina Fernandez Facultad de
Psicología,
Universidad
de Buenos
Aires
Ciudad
de
Buenos
Aires
Argentina
1786 Health Systems Resilience for Rare
Diseases.
Rita Ferrelli Istituto
Superiore di
Sanità
Roma Italy
156 Effectively fostering community
engagement to plan, monitor and
evaluate maternal and newborn health
interventions at scale: Evidence from
Ethiopia
Nebreed Fesseha JSI Research
& Training
Institute, Inc.
Addis
Ababa
Ethiopia
1162 Effective primary care in Haiti: post-
earthquake gaps and resilience
Anna Gage Harvard T. H.
Chan School
of Public
Health
Boston United
States
2836 Building Resilient Systems through
Performance-Based-Financing in
Fragile & Conflict-affected States: A
Case of Insurgency Affected Districts in
Adamawa State, Nigeria
Hyeladzira Garnvwa National
Primary
Health Care
Development
Agency
Abuja Nigeria
958 Successful implementation of a robust
Data Quality Assurance protocol in a
large-scale health systems
improvement trial in Uttar Pradesh,
India
Jonathon Gass Ariadne Labs,
Harvard T.H.
Chan School
of Public
Health,
Brigham &
Women's
Hospital
Boston,
MA
02215
United
States
1350 An assessment of the financial
sustainability of health facilities along
cross border areas in East Africa
Agnes Gatome-
Munyua
Abt
Associates
Washingt
on D.C.
United
States
1118 Equity and rights in health care:
evidence from Colombia
Gustavo Gava Institute of
Economics/Un
iversity of
Campinas
Campina
s - São
Paulo
Brazil
1372 Anchoring sustainable health systems
research: the design of progressive
health and social development
responsiveness optimisation potentials
among youth and parents in Addis
Ababa
Mulugeta Gebremari
am
Addis Ababa
University,
Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
Addis
Ababa
Ethiopia
2974 Scaling up performance-based
financing in Mozambique: power,
politics, and data
Jessica Gergen ThinkWell Washingt
on DC
United
States
2073 How well does Cascade Training work?
Results from CHNIS -- a multi-country
implementation fidelity assessment
focused on improving CHW
performance
Annette Ghee World Vision
International
Federal
Way
United
States
2609 Challenges and capacity to absorb child
health and nutritional shocks by
community and health providers under
climate crisis: A case of Indian
Sundarbans
Upasona Ghosh Institute of
Health
Management
Research
University
Kolkata India
1951 Clinical Capacity of Primary Health Care
Providers in Ghana: From Mapping
Capacity to Closing the Gaps
Anthony Gingong Results for
Development
Institute
Washingt
on DC
United
States
2882 Tools and approaches for community
engagement in implementation
research: What works, for whom and for
what purpose?
Douglas Glandon John Hopkins
Bloomberg
School of
Public Health
Baltimore
, MD
United
States
2970 Basic Healthcare Units and Primary
Care: The Experience of the Healthcare
Network in Emilia Romagna, Italy and
Pastaza, Ecuador
Sindy Godínez
de León
Università di
Ferrara
Ferrara,
Italy
Italy
2700 The effect of The Chief Minister Free
Drug Scheme (CMFDS) on universal
access to essential medicine in
Rajasthan, India
Mahaveer Golechha Indian Institute
of Public
Health-
Gandhinagar,
Public Health
Foundation of
India
Ahmedab
ad
India
1667 Generating actionable information:
enabling factors for clean hands, clean
delivery surfaces, and clean cord cut
across maternity units
Giorgia Gon London
School of
Hygiene and
Tropical
Medicine
Keppel
St,
London
WC1E
7HT
United
Kingdom
2604 Percepción de la Continuidad de la
Atención de Mujeres con Cáncer de
Mama en Nuevo León, México
Maria Gonzalez-
Robledo
Instituto
Nacional de
Salud Pública
Cuernava
ca
México
2024 Contratación de servicios de salud en el
Seguro Popular de México: Análisis de
Contenidos
Luz Gonzalez-
Robledo
Universidad
Autonoma del
Estado de
Morelos
Cuernava
ca,
Morelos
Mexico
3044 The Rise and Fall of Health System
Planning in 1960s Africa: any lessons
from history?
Martin Gorsky London
School of
Hygiene and
Tropical
Medicine
London United
Kingdom
1983 Hear my voice: Community-based
participatory research and
advocacy raising up often unheard
voices in Tanzania to promote public
value and health.
Margo Greenwoo
d
Sightsavers Haywards
Heath
United
Kingdom
1016 Research on Equitable Access to
Essential Medicines in ChinaXiaodong Guan Peking
University
Beijing China
1908 Entre ordre médical et ordre social : les
difficiles relations de soins entre enfants
et adultes dans un service de pédiatrie
à Bamako (Mali)
Abdoulaye Guindo Université des
Lettres et des
Sciences
Humaines de
Bamako -
Centre
Norbert,
(EHESS) &
UMI 3189
CNRS
Bamako Mali
539 Evaluation of clinical pwathways for
stroke and chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease linked with payment
refor in rural China
Wudong Guo China
National
Health
Development
Research
Centre
Beijing China
3220 Evaluation of Anemia in India using
Needleless Technology
Jaya Gupta Harvard
Medical
School
Boston United
States
1053 Men’s involvement in women’s SRHR
for gender mainstreaming, addressing
social norms and fostering positive
change
Nisha Gupta Project
Concern
International
New
Delhi
India
1282 How far can a social franchise cover its
costs? An economic analysis of the
PROFAM maternal health franchise in
Uganda
Manon Haemmerli London
School of
Hygiene &
Tropical
Medicine
London United
Kingdom
3219 Comparing the performance of the
public, social security and private health
sub-systems in Argentina by core
dimensions of primary health care
Jeannie Haggerty McGill
University
Rosario Argentina
2905 Engaging Health and Non-Health Actors
for Essential Medicines Availability at
the Lowest Levels of the Health System
in Tanzania
Kelly Hamblin USAID/Tanza
nia
Dar es
Salaam
Tanzania
2205 Analysis on the Distribution and
Influencing Factors of 15 Hospitalized
Common Diseases in the Chinese Rural
Medical and Health Institutions
Zhiyan Han Shandong
Academy of
Medical
Science
Ji’nan China
2177 Enhancing health system
responsiveness to internal migrants in
Myanmar: Challenges and solutions
Wai Han Department of
Medical
Research,
Ministry of
Health,
Myanmar
Yangon Burma
2302 Is the impact of distance to facility
on pregnancy and childbirth care
changing? Results from two large
household surveys in 2007 and 2013 in
Tanzania
Claudia Hanson Department of
Disease
Control,
London
School of
Hygiene and
Tropical
Medicine,
London,
Stockhol
m
Sweden
2351 Exploration of Psycho-social Institutional
Initiatives in reducing Post Disaster
Mental Health and Post Traumatic
Stress Disorders (PTSD) in a Cyclone
Affected Area of Coastal Bangladesh
M Tasdik Hasan International
Center for
Diarrheal
Disease
Research,
Bangladesh
(icddr,b)
Dhaka Banglades
h
1805 Strengthening healthcare system to
improve child health outcomes: an
evaluation of a multifaceted intervention
to improve quality of hospital care in
Rwanda
Celestin Hategekim
ana
University of
British
Columbia
Vancouve
r
Canada
2236 The impacts of the “fix out of pocket”
policy for NCMS in rural Hainan of
China
Liyue He Peking
University
Beijing China
2109 Evidence versus eminence: Power
dynamics in the practice of public health
advocacy and responsiveness of the
health system
Pragati Hebbar Institute of
Public Health,
Bengaluru
Bengalur
u
India
1680 Towards health systems strengthening
by focusing on district health managers:
A case study of Evidence Based district
Planning in Uganda
Dorcus HenrikssonKarolinska
Institutet
Stockhol
m
Sweden
323 Post Ebola Health worker scale up in
Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia:
Towards targeted and realistic health
workforce investments for maximum
benefit
Christoph
er
Herbst The World
Bank Group
Washingt
on DC
United
States
2724 How should donors engage with Faith-
Based Organisations in the context of
current health system reforms in
Cameroon?
Sibylle Herzig van
Wees
School of
Oriental and
African
Studies -
University of
London
London United
Kingdom
2989 Bridging the gap between researchers
and practitioners in health systems
research and development - key
determinants for a successful
collaboration between Non-
Governmental Organizations and
Universities
Michael Hobbins SolidarMed Sheffield United
Kingdom
254 Strong Local Governance for Health is
Associated with Effective Primary
Healthcare and Greater Reductions in
Amenable Mortality: Longitudinal
Evidence from the Brazilian Family
Health Program
Thomas Hone Imperial
College
London, UK
London United
Kingdom
3052 Health and Equity through Advocacy,
Research, and Theatre (HEART)
Rahat Hossain Michael G.
DeGroote
School of
Medicine,
McMaster
University -
Niagara
Regional
Campus
St.
Catharine
s
Canada
1697 Health information challenges in
ensuring patient-centred MNCH care in
urban Bangladesh
Shaikh A.
Shahed
Hossain International
Centre for
Diarrhoeal
Disease
Research,
Bangladesh
Dhaka Banglades
h
1430 Articulación de iniciativas en el campo
de recursos humanos con los objetivos
sanitarios: Impacto de la Planificación
de una Política Pública en Salud.
Lizardo Huamán
Angulo
LAHASIC La Perla Peru
2307 A qualitative study of policymaker’s
understanding of CRVS data in health
policy planning and resource allocation
in Cameroon
Tessy Huss Slainte
Healthcare
Dublin Ireland
2261 Comparative assessment of the BRICS
healthcare system
Salman Hussain Faculty of
Pharmacy,
Jamia
Hamdard,
Hamdard
University,
New Delhi,
India
New
Delhi
India
912 The quality of routine immunisation data
in South Africa: a comparative study of
health information systems in Cape
Town, Western Cape
Christalien Husselma
nn
University of
Stellenbosch
University
of
Stellenbo
sch,
Cape
Town,
South
Africa
South
Africa
31 A community-led program towards
malaria elimination in the Eastern
Province of Rwanda: Intervention
mapping approach
Marie
Chantal
Ingabire Rwanda
Biomedical
Centre
Kigali Rwanda
2305 Access to reproductive health care for
urban migrant women in Bangladesh:
A conceptual study
Mohamma
d Mainul
Islam University of
Dhaka
Dhaka Banglades
h
495 Adopting web based cost free
information system to get flaw less
programmatic data
Naimul Islam BRAC Dhaka Banglades
h
1737 How Institutionalized Local Participatory
Governance Facilitated Emergence of
New Platforms for Community
Participation in Health Care. A case
study from Kerala, India
Jith J R Public Health
Foundation of
India
Gurgaon,
Haryana
India
3055 Health for Poorest Population: Bridging
equity gaps through community-based
services and an equity-focused district
health systems strengthening approach
in Zambia
Choolwe Jacobs University of
Zambia
Lusaka Zambia
3031 Realizing Responsibilities: BRAC’s
experience in delivering value based
Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
services in slums of urban Bangladesh
Nauruj Jahan BRAC Dhaka Banglades
h
2908 Agricultural migrant workers navigating
the Western Cape health system: From
Access to Continuity of Care in settings
with histories of anti-migrant violence in
South Africa
Nafeesa Jalal University of
the Western
Cape
Cape
Town,
South
Africa
South
Africa
1123 Catastrophic health expenditure on
acute coronary events in Asia: a
prospective study
Stephen Jan The George
Insitute for
Global Health
Camperd
own NSW
Australia
570 Enhancing evidence-informed decision
making: Strategies for engagement
between public health faculty and policy
makers in Kenya
Nasreen Jessani Johns
Hopkins
Bloomberg
School of
Public Health
Baltimore United
States
2653 Opportunities, challenges and systems
requirements for developing post-
abortion family planning services:
perceptions of health policy makers,
managers and services providers in
three provinces in China
Hong Jiang Liverpool
School of
Tropical
Medicine
Liverpool United
Kingdom
316 Government Commitment on Cost
Effective Technology (GxAlert)
Improves Drug Resistance TB
Response in Nigeria
Kehinde Jimoh AgbaiyeroAbt
Associates -
Health
Finance and
Governance
Project
Abuja Nigeria
2065 Understanding Responsiveness of
Physicians in Rural Bangladesh: A
Qualitative Study
Taufique Joarder James P
Grant School
of Public
Health, BRAC
University
Dhaka Banglades
h
3450 Using Remote Presence Technology to
Improve Access to Care for a Remote
First Nations Community in Northern
Saskatchewan, Canada
Rachel Johnson University of
Saskatchewan
Saskatoo
n,
Saskatch
ewan
Canada
1004 Training Trainers to Deliver Leadership
Development Programs: Lessons
Learned from Capacity Building in
IPPFARO Learning Centers
Sarah Jonassen
Bittman
Management
Sciences for
Health
Arlington United
States
1868 Looking in through the glass
wall: Experiences of contract personnel
in the public health system of India
Lakshmi Josyula Indian Institute
of Public
Health,
Hyderabad;
Public Health
Foundation of
India
Hyderaba
d
India
2496 Community care seeking practices for
children under-5 change with
implementation integrated community
case management (iCCM); Experience
from Bondo, Kenya
Mark Kabue Jhpiego,
Baltimore
Baltimore United
States
2337 Implementation Gaps during The Health
Policy Dialogue in Tunisia
Yassine Kalboussi National
Institute of
Public Health -
Tunisia
Tunis Tunisia
1387 Factors of performance and challenges
of 15 years of Child Health Week in
Zambia
Mahoko Kamatsuc
hi
London
School of
Hygiene &
Tropical
Medicine
London United
Kingdom
1265 The effect of Results Based Financing
on experiences and perceived quality of
maternal and newborn care services
among clients and healthcare providers
in rural Malawi
Christabel Kambala Institute of
Public Health,
Faculty of
Medicine,
Heidelberg
University
/School of
Public Health
and Family
Medicine,
College of
Medicine,
University of
Malawi.
Heidelber
g,
Germany
2764 Bottom-up approach: Social innovations
to improve neonatal care-seeking
behavior in a state with high neonatal
mortality, India’
Aastha Kant Population
Council
Delhi India
2875 Social capital and health service
utilization: a study in Nagaland, India
Avril Kaplan Johns
Hopkins
University
Baltimore
, MD
United
States
2272 Emerging Purchaser-Provider Split and
Provider Payment Mechanisms in
Indian Health System: Comparison of
Three State-run Health Insurance
Schemes
Anup Karan Public Health
Foundation of
India
Gurgaon India
3399 Factors Influencing Deliveries at Health
Facilities among Rural Maasai
Communities in Magadi Sub-County,
Kenya
Sarah Karanja Amref Health
Africa in
Kenya
Nairobi Kenya
2324 Costs and sustainable financing of
integrated community case
management of common childhood
illnesses in Uganda and Mozambique
Frida Kasteng Karolinska
Institutet,
London
School of
Hygiene and
Tropical
Medicine
Stockhol
m
Sweden
3433 Community-led advocacy for maternal
health services in a fragmented urban
health system – engaging knowledge
and power
Augustine Kaunds SPAD Bangalor
e 560005
India
1167 Towards a collaborative model of
maternal health care: bringing skilled
and traditional birth attendants together
in rural Kenya
Michelle Kermode University of
Melbourne
Melbourn
e
Australia
1237 Innovation in health worker training
programs in Africa; experiences in the
implementation and scale of the Health
Enablement and Learning Platform
(HELP) mobile solution, Kenya.
Jackline Kiarie Amref Health
Africa
Nairobi Kenya
1683 For A National Scale-Up of Ghana
EMBRACE Intervention Package to
Improve Maternal, Newborn, and Child
Health: Effectiveness Evaluation Using
RE-AIM Framework
Kimiyo Kikuchi Gratuate
School of
Medicine, The
University of
Tokyo
Tokyo Japan
1760 Civil registration system: loophole or
driver of population coverage in
‘Universal Health Coverage’?
Comparative case study between
measles vaccination in Bangladesh and
Republic of Korea
Yeonsoo Kim Ewha
Womans
University
Seoul South
Korea
2372 The ‘mild mental illness patients’ as
target population for mental health
policy: An analysis of agenda setting for
mental health policy decision making in
Korea
Hee-Eon Kim Ewha
Womans
University
Seoul Korea,
South
2826 Increasing Resilience of the Health
System through Improving
Immunization Data Collection, Quality
and Use: The Case of The BID Initiative
Tanzania
Robert Kindoli PATH Dar es
Salaam
Tanzania
3029 How can studies of immunization
program costs best be used to enhance
planning and management for efficiency
at district and facility level? Experience
in Zambia.
Anthony Kinghorn Perinatal HIV
Research
Unit,
University of
the
Witwatersrand
Soweto South
Africa
2733 What works? A facility-based
mentorship and coaching model for
community health workers improves the
quality of Community Based Family
Planning services in Uganda
Ramadha
n
Kirunda FHI 360
Uganda
Kampala Uganda
698 Criteria for categorization of Public
Health institutions by location for
hardship allowance or incentives.
Antony Kollannur Indian Public
Health
Association
Kolkata,In
dia
India
1101 Élaboration de la Vision Commune
Nationale de la formation de base des
Infirmières et des Sages-femmes en
République Démocratique du Congo
Djeko KOMBA Ministère de la
Santé
Publique
Kinshasa Congo
(Kinshasa)
625 Experiences of intimate partner violence
(IPV) among women living with
HIV/AIDS: A study of women attending
a care and treatment clinic central
Tanzania
Agnes Kosia Muhimbili
University of
Health and
Allied
Sciences
Dar Es
Salaam
1401 Engaging stakeholders to improve
enrolment in Ghana’s National Health
Insurance: A multi-level case study
Agnes Kotoh University of
Ghana
Accra Ghana
2315 What can family transfers tell us about
the responsiveness of health systems to
ageing societies?: The WHO SAGE
study
Paul Kowal London
School of
Hygiene and
Tropical
Medicine
London United
Kingdom
1339 Empowering Civil Society Organizations
to engage power and politics to improve
immunization: A Gavi-funded
partnership approach to improving
health in Africa.
Domegour
e
Kpagnane
Somda
Catholic Relief
Services
Ouagado
ugou
Burkina
Faso
3145 Can Primary Health Care Offer a Safe
and Effective Entry Point for
Responding to Domestic Violence in
India?
Suneeta Krishnan Research
Triangle
Institute
Global India
Private
Limited
New
Delhi
India
2865 Towards a better understanding of local
contexts for implementing knowledge
translation activities: experiences from
eastern Europe and central Asia
Tanja Kuchenm
üller
World Health
Organization
Regional
Office for
Europe
2100
Copenha
gen
Denmark
2122 The Guidelines Adherence in Slums
Project (GASP): Innovative tools and
approaches to improve quality of clinical
care at the frontiers of healthcare
delivery
Pratap Kumar Strathmore
Business
School
Nairobi Kenya
847 An agent-based modeling tool to aid
primary care planning in the event of a
disaster
Supriya Kumar Department of
Behavioral
and
Community
Health
Sciences,
University of
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh United
States
79 Politics of Panchayati Raj Institutions in
Provisioning of Primary Healthcare:
Experiences from a Decentralised
Health System of India
Virendra Kumar Indian Institute
of Technology
(IIT) Roorkee
ROORKE
E
India
77 Health Payments and Households
Wellbeings in India: Role of Health
Policy Interventions
Shailender Kumar Institute for
Studies in
Industrial
Development
(ISID), New
Delhi, India
Delhi India
1355 Improving Access to Skilled-Birth
Attendants in Jimma Zone Ethiopia
through Maternity Waiting Areas and
Local Leader Support: An
Implementation Study Protocol
Jaameeta Kurji University of
Ottawa
Ottawa Canada
2738 Universal health care scheme
consequences on local health financing:
Indonesia’s experience
Asep Kurniawan SMERU
Research
Institute
Jakarta Indonesia
1177 Vietnam Mental Health Atlas: A
geospatially enabled website for
visualizing performance and sharing
data of Vietnam's national mental health
system
Nhan La Vietnam
National
Psychiatric
Hospital No. 1
Hanoi Vietnam
1999 Leveraging a new, multi-actor health
system research partnership to improve
access to cost-effective controller
medicines for asthma
Tracey-
Lea
Laba The George
Institute for
Global Health,
University of
Sydney
Camperd
own
Australia
1259 Measuring progress in a fragile nation:
Change in South Sudan’s health service
coverage since independence
Richard Lako Liverpool
School of
Tropical
Medicine
Liverpool United
Kingdom
866 Impact evaluation of free delivery care
on maternal health service utilisation
and neonatal health in Nepal
Prabhat Lamichha
ne
Department of
Epidemiology
and
Preventive
Medicine,
Monash
University
Melbourn
e,
Australia
Australia
201 Health Sector Violence at ED of
Hospitals in Kathmandu
Pradip Lamsal Helping
Hands
Community
Hospital
Kathman
du
Nepal
2279 Un modèle conceptuel basé sur les
processus et la communauté pour un
développement sain des enfants et de
systèmes de santé réactifs
Odette Laplante CISSS de
Chaudière-
Appalaches
Sainte-
Marie
Canada
1276 Lessons from the best: scaling up
quality improvement through learning
from successful Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander primary health care
services.
Sarah Larkins College of
Medicine and
Dentistry,
James Cook
University
Townsvill
e
Australia
1187 The role of a fit for purpose health
workforce in strengthening health
systems: selection and socialisation.
Findings from an international cohort
study.
Sarah Larkins College of
Medicine and
Dentistry,
James Cook
University
Townsvill
e
Australia
3254 Diagnosing the problem: Understanding
patient experiences during visits for sick
children in seven sub-Saharan African
countries
Elysia Larson Harvard T. H.
Chan School
of Public
Health
Boston United
States
3062 Knowledge networks and politics of
health systems: using systems thinking
causal loop models in understanding
complex interactions among health
workers in the Nigerian health system
Samuel Lassa University of
Jos
Jos,
Plateau
state
Nigeria
2515 A Qualitative Study of Informed
Decision-making of Non-invasive
Prenatal Testing for Down Syndrome
among Pregnant Women in Hong Kong:
Responsiveness of Health System
Janice
Ying Chui
Lau JC School of
Public Health
and Primary
Care, The
Chinese
University of
Hong Kong
Hong
Kong
Hong
Kong
231 The implication of introducing two
mutually conflicting Results Based
Payment schemes in public hospitals in
Macedonia
Vladimir Lazarevik Healthgrouper Skopje Macedoni
a
[FYROM]
837 Política de Calidad de la Atención de
Salud: ¿Es posible superar la
condición de políticas exclusivamente
simbólicas?
Oswaldo Lazo Universidad
Peruana
Cayetano
Heredia
Lima Peru
3298 MERS Countermeasures as One of
Global Health Security Agenda
Jong-Koo Lee Seoul National
University
College of
Medicine
Seoul Korea,
South
3294 Measles Elimination Activities in the
Western Pacific Region: Experience
from the Republic of Korea
Jong-Koo Lee Seoul National
University
College of
Medicine
Seoul Korea,
South
2840 Quality of integrated antenatal and
malaria service delivery: a novel
approach to assessing effects on
malaria intervention uptake during
pregnancy and childhood in sub-
Saharan Africa
Elizabeth Lee The
Uniformed
Services
University of
the Health
Sciences
Bethesda United
States
2237 Hepatitis B in the migrant Chinese
communities in England: An invisible
disease in an invisible population
Andrew Lee The University
of Sheffield;
Public Health
England
Sheffield United
Kingdom
1200 Effectiveness of care delivery in the
regional governance structure of
Thailand’s Universal Health Coverage:
A social network analysis
Borwornso
m
Leerapan Mahidol
University
Bangkok Thailand
812 Post Doctorate Research Fellowship as
a Health Policy and Systems Research
(HPSR) Capacity Development
Intervention: Collaboration for Health
Systems Analysis and Innovation
(CHESAI) Project
Martina Lembani University of
the Western
Cape
Cape
Town
South
Africa
730 Most Significant Change (MSC):
Community participation in evaluating
maternal health promotion in the
Community Integrated Health Posts
(Posyandu) in Cianjur district,
Indonesia
Ralalicia Limato Eijkman
Institute for
Molecular
Biology,
Jakarta,
Indonesia
Jakarta Indonesia
1613 Study on Accessibility of Health Service
in ABA Prefecture of Sichuan Province
of China
Xu-Dong
Yang
Lin-Gui li NingXiaYiKeD
aXue
YinChuan China
3235 Identify the community healthcare
support for elderly and the factors
affecting their desired aging care
models: Evidence from three districts of
Beijing
Tianyang Liu China
National
Health and
Development
Research
Center
Beijing China
670 An arbitrary decision? Theoretical and
Positive analysis on abolishing the
policy of mark-up on medicine in China
Hongyu LIU Ningxia
Medical
University
YinChuan China
2061 Analysis on turnover intention and its
influence factor of health workers in
basic-level medical institution:
experience from western rural China
Jinlin Liu Xi'an Jiaotong
University
Xi'an China
1861 The importance of health workers’
intrinsic motivation: Evidence on
determinants and outcomes from
nurses in Burkina Faso.
Julia Lohmann Heidelberg
University,
Germany
Germany
1132 Onsite midwife-led birth units (OMBU)
for care around the time of childbirth: a
systematic review
Qian Long Department of
Reproductive
Health and
Research,
World Health
Organization
Geneva Switzerlan
d
2725 Opportunities for Health System
Strengthening during Government
Transition in Myanmar: A systematized
review
Raina Loxley Queen's
University
Kingson Canada
2600 The impact of social participation on
health and well-being in an ageing
world: a study from the hill-country of Sri
Lanka
Stanley Luchters Burnet
Institute
Melbourn
e
Australia
2458 Contribution of Partnerships in the
Introduction of New Vaccines in Routine
Immunizations in Bangladesh
Sharmin Luies Health
Systems and
Population
Studies
Division,
icddr,b
Dhaka Banglades
h
3111 Catastrophic expenditure on medicines
in Brazil: results from a household
survey
Vera Lucia Luiza National
School of
Public Health
Sergio
Arouca;
Oswaldo Cruz
Foundation
(ENSP/Fiocru
z)
Rio de
Janeiro
Brazil
1448 Effectiveness and efficiency of different
knowledge management strategies to
improve medical male circumcision
services in Uganda
Sarah Lunsford EnCompass
LLC
Bethesda United
States
3203 Exploring intergenerational relationships
and intergenerational programs in Hong
Kong: prospects, opportunities, and
implications on health policy
Eliza LY Wong The Chinese
University of
Hong Kong
Hong
Kong
Hong
Kong
3036 Monitoring and evaluation measures for
health systems strengthening: impact
on disease burden, pathogenesis and
mortality
Erlyn
Rachelle
Macaraya
n
Yale
University
Center for
Infectious
Disease
Modelling and
Analysis
USA United
States
2308 Scaling up systems for all chronic
lifelong conditions: learning from
stakeholder perspectives on innovations
to address retention in care for HIV in
South Africa
Hayley MacGrego
r
Institute of
Development
Studies
Brighton United
Kingdom
417 The Representation and Practice
of Interdisciplinarity in Health Policy and
Systems Research: A Systematic
Review
Kim MacQuilka
n
University of
Cape Town
Cape
Town
South
Africa
1517 Functional rehabilitation: A strategy for
healthcare system strengthening
Muriel Mac-Seing Université de
Montréal
Montréal Canada
2222 Harnessing and sustaining non-
traditional responsive community based
health interventions in low resource
settings in Uganda
David Mafigiri Makerere
University
Kampala Uganda
2172 Capacity of women to voice their
concerns about maternal health
services in Muanda and Bolenge Health
Zones, Democratic Republic of the
Congo: a multi-method study
Eric Mafuta Kinshasa
School of
Public
Health/Univer
sity of
Kinshasa
Kinshasa Congo
(Kinshasa)
329 Evaluation des résultats de la mise en
oeuvre de la Stratégie de Renforcement
du Système de Santé en République
Démocratique du Congo
Eric Mafuta
Musalu
Ministère de la
Santé
Publique/Divisi
on provinciale
du Kongo
Central/Zone
de santé Kwilu
Ngongo
Kwilu
Ngongo
Congo
(Kinshasa)
420 INSIDA QUAL: Investigation of health-
and care-seeking behaviors among HIV-
infected adults in Mozambique
Amilcar Magaco National
Institute of
Health,
Ministery of
Health
Maputo Mozambiq
ue
2500 Trends in essential medicines
procurement by the Brazilian Federal
Government
Rachel Magarinos-
Torres
School of
Pharmacy,
Federal
University of
the State of
Rio de Janeiro
(Universidade
Federal
Fluminense -
UFF), Brazil
Rio de
Janeiro
Brazil
2571 Public-Private-Partnership in Health
Care Services in Odisha, India
Sandeep
Mahapatra
Mahapatra Indian Institute
of Public
Health,
Bhubaneswar
BHUBAN
ESWAR,
ODISHA
India
76 Practices and perceptions of male
partners on postpartum care in rural
Tanzania: a qualitative study
Gladys Mahiti Muhimbili
University of
Health and
Allied
Sciences
Dar es
salaam
Tanzania
2643 Menstrual Regulation (MR) services in
Bangladesh: Experience from
REACHOUT Research
Ilias Mahmud James P
Grant School
of Public
Health, Brac
University
Dhaka Banglades
h
1809 Measuring the supervision of
community health workers: Developing
and Validating the Perceived
Supervisory Support Scale (PSS)
Ilias Mahmud Centre for
Global Health,
Trinity College
Dublin
Dublin Ireland
222 Implementation and sustainability of the
multifaceted integrated chronic disease
management model at primary
healthcare clinics in South Africa
Ozayr Mahomed University of
KwaZulu Natal
Durban South
Africa
811 Pay-for-performance in health programs
and services: an evidence brief for
policy
Jorge Maia BarretoOswaldo Cruz
Foundation
Brasilia Brazil
3134 Concepts of Resilience and
Responsiveness in attempting a
Reconciliation of Tensions in the
Prevention versus Treatment Debate
Nabeel Mangadan-
Konath
Consultant in
Public Health
and Bioethics
Kannur,
Kerala
India
2714 Community wide health risk
assessment: a strategy for population
surveillence for cardiovascular disease
associated risk
Aparna Manohara
n
IKP Centre for
Technologies
in Public
Health
Thanjavur India
1569 Community scorecards process for
sustainable community assessments of
primary health services in the
Democratic Republic of Congo
Alexandre Manunga IMA World
Health,
Kinshasa,
Democratic
Republic of
Congo
Kinshasa Congo
58 Post earthquake communicable disease
epidemic prevention approaches in
Nepal
SUJAN MARAHAT
TA
Manmohan
Memorial
Institute of
Health
Sciences
Kathman
du Nepal
Nepal
1619 Promoting Intersectoral action through
Community Based Monitoring for
accountable and effective child nutrition
services
Shweta Marathe Support for
Advocacy and
Training in
Health
Initiatives
(SATHI)
Pune-
411029
India
237 Do introduced approaches to health
planning work and improve health
sector resilience at district level? An
appraisal of District Team Problem
Solving (DTPS) in Indonesia
Deswanto Marbun UNICEF New York United
States
314 Integration for Stronger Health Systems
: Why Rheumatic Heart Disease Must
be Incorporated into Universal Health
Coverage
Joanna Markbreite
r
World Heart
Federation
Genève Switzerlan
d
2669 Implementation Research to Assess
and Improve Indonesia’s Universal
Health Coverage Program through
Partnership with National and Local
Policymakers
Tiara Marthias CHPM,
Faculty of
Medicine,
Universitas
Gadjah Mada
Yogyakart
a
Indonesia
1434 Understanding factors that can promote
resilience during and after economic
crises: how to retain and motivate
health workers at rural health facilities in
Zimbabwe
Wilson Mashange Biomedical
Research and
Training
Institute
Harare Zimbabwe
1837 More flexibility in the use of deployment
policies: the challenge of retaining
health workers in post crisis settings in
remote areas of Zimbabwe
Wilson MashangeBiomedical
Research and
Training
Institute
Harare Zimbabwe
2456 The contribution of non-state faith-
based health providers to health
systems resilience in Africa
Jolly Ann Maulit University of
Cape Town
Cape
Town
South
Africa
59 PERSPECTIVES OF SEXUAL
ACTIVITY AND KNOWLEDGE OF
CONTRACEPTIVES IN RELATION TO
THE TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY.
charity mazuba Unisa Guateng
Province
South
Africa
2248 Convergence in Local Governance for
Strengthening Public Health Resilience
to Climate Adversities: A Case of
Cuttack City, Odisha, India
Papiya Mazumdar Institute of
Public Health,
Kalyani
Kalyani
(Kolkata)
India
1644 Missing links in the chain: How can
governance matter? The case of
inadequate financial risk protection
against illness among low-income
settlements in Delhi, India
Sumit Mazumdar Institute of
Public Health,
Kalyani
Kalyani India
89 Political Economy of Maternal Health
Policies and Their Outcomes in
Selected States in Nigeria
Kikelomo Mbada Department of
Political
Sciences,
Faculty of
Social
Science,
Obafemi
Awolowo
University, Ile-
Ife, Nigeria
Ile-Ife Nigeria
765 De petites mutuelles communautaires à
une mutuelle départementale
professionnalisée au Sénégal
Ndeye MBOW Unité
Départementa
le
d'Assurance
Maladie de
Foundiougne
Sokone Senegal
300 Hospital utilisation in Indigenous and
non-Indigenous infants under 12
months of age in Western Australia,
prospective population based data
linkage study
Kimberley McAuley The University
of Werstern
Australia
Perth Australia
524 Improving access to primary health care
for Aboriginal babies in Western
Australia: A randomized control trial.
Daniel McAullay Edith Cowan
University
Perth Australia
1428 Clinical Officer Surgical Training in
Africa (COST-Africa): Provision of
training and supervision to medical
licentiates produces evidence of safe
surgery at district hospitals in Zambia.
Tracey McCauley Royal College
of Surgeons in
Ireland
Dublin 2 Ireland
1337 Geographic disparities of household
exposure to catastrophic health care
expenditures in Iran; 2008-2014
Mohamma
d Hossein
Mehrolhas
sani
Health
Services
Management
Research
Center,
Institute for
Futures
Studies in
Health,
Kerman
University of
Medical
Sciences
Kerman Iran
2679 Assessing the Influence of Stigma and
Discrimination in Health Systems on
Barriers to Health Care Access in
Transgender Populations
Seema Mehta McMaster
University
Hamilton Canada
1855 Experiencia del Ministerio de Salud
Pública del Ecuador en la
implementación de las unidades de
costos en los hospitales priorizados
Ana Mena Ministerio de
Salud Pública
de Ecuador
Quito Ecuador
2154 Perceptions on and experiences with
supportive supervision of HEWs
providing maternal health services in
Sidama zone, South Ethiopia.
Nega Metasha REACH
Ethiopia
Hawassa Ethiopia
1745 CHALLENGES TO DIAGNOSE
INTESTINAL PARASITIC INFECTIONS
AT THE PRIMARY-CARE LEVEL IN
MALUKU TENGAH DISTRICT,
MALUKU PROVINCE, INDONESIA
Fransiska Meyanti Centre for
Tropical
Medicine,
Faculty of
Medicine,
Gadjah Mada
University,
Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
Yogyakart
a
Indonesia
1897 How successful have we been in
attaining Population Goals laid down by
Policies and Programs – India: A
Historical Perspective?
Rajna Mishra Public Health
Foundation of
India
Gurgaon,
Harayana
India
3429 Evaluating a training program designed
to support evidence-informed
policymaking: Lessons from Health
Systems Learning
Kaelan Moat McMaster
Health Forum
Hamilton Canada
2368 Interventions in Himachal Pradesh
based on evidence from health
financing research using a standardized
tool kit.
Tushar Mokashi National
Health
Systems
Resource
Centre,
Ministry of
Health and
Family
Welfare,
Government
of India
New
Delhi
India
2023 Improving the quality of family planning
and abortion services in Kenya and
India
Dominic Montagu University of
California,
San Francisco
San
Francisco
United
States
1079 The GREAT Network: A global
collaborative to advance knowledge
translation science and practice through
implementation of WHO’s maternal
health guidelines in low- and middle-
income countries
Julia Moore St. Michael's
Hospital
Toronto Canada
1141 Towards a Broader Framework for
Assessing Country Development in
Health: A Practical Approach Based on
Theory and Evidence
Rodrigo Moreno-
Serra
University of
Sheffield
Sheffield United
Kingdom
2110 In a troubled period of system reform, a
push system for medical supplies in
Papua New Guinea increases
availability, improves outcomes, and
builds confidence.
Christoph
er
Morgan Burnet
Institute
Melbourn
e
Australia
2100 How do we know if women are getting
there in time? A novel mechanism for
tracking timeliness of skilled birth
attendance: Cervical Dilatation on
Arrival
Alison Morgan Nossal
Institute for
Global Health,
University of
Melbourne
Melbourn
e
Australia
1915 Exploring men’s attitudes towards HPV
self-collection for cervical cancer
screening for women in Kisenyi,
Uganda
Erin Moses University of
British
Columbia
Vancouve
r
Canada
595 Are health inequalities rooted in the
past? A decomposition of income-
related inequalities in metabolic
syndrome by childhood conditions in a
middle-aged Swedish population
Paola Mosquera Umeå
University
Umeå Sweden
3280 Pragmatic Randomized Trials in
Healthcare MOOC, a Case Study
Irina Motoc Karolinksa
Institut
Solna Sweden
3032 Helping survivors of gender-based
violence in Iringa and Njombe regions of
Tanzania achieve their reproductive
intentions
Witness Motta EngenderHeal
th Tanzania
Dar es
Salaam
Tanzania
1754 Implementing a district management
strengthening intervention in Ghana,
Uganda and Tanzania: Reflections from
an Action Research project
Comfort Mshelia University of
Leeds
Leeds United
Kingdom
2202 Health Systems Governance in the
Eastern Cape Province: An analysis of
Audit Findings
Thokozile Mtsolongo Public Service
Accountability
Monitor
Grahamst
own
South
Africa
309 Prioritizing Partnerships: Linking
Institutions and Professionals to
Facilitate Health Systems Strengthening
in Tanzania’s Lake Zone
Hayley Mundeva Simon Fraser
University
Burnaby,
BC
Canada
1523 Exploring leadership within African
health systems using a gender lensKelly Muraya KEMRI-
Wellcome
Trust
Research
Programme,
Kenya
Kilifi Kenya
2165 Approach to developing stakeholder-
informed and evidence-based task-
shifting strategies to improve health
services for sick newborns in Kenya
Georgina Murphy University of
Oxford
Oxford United
Kingdom
1946 ‘Mind the leadership gap’ for resilient
health system strengthening:
Leadership styles on health worker
performance and service delivery
among health facilities in Uganda
Conrad Musinguzi Baylor College
of Medicine
Children
Foundation
Kampala Uganda
3088 Exploring health systems integration in
South Africa: from integrating
prevention of mother-to-child
transmission of HIV, to prevention of
type 2 diabetes after gestational
diabetes
Jean
Claude
MUTABAZ
I
Université de
Montréal
Montréal Canada
853 Can community saving groups usher in
community health insurance in rural
areas? A case study of three districts in
Eastern Uganda
ALOYSIU
S
MUTEBI MAKERERE
UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF
PUBLIC
HEALTH
KAMPAL
A
Uganda
320 Effects of recurrent vaccination mass
campaigns on the primary health
service provision of the Health Zones,
Democratic Republic of Congo: an
alternating time series analysis
Nono Mvuama Ministry of
Public Health,
Kinshasa
Health
Division,
Centre Mère
et Enfant de
Barumbu,
Kinshasa
Kinshasa Congo
1443 Costs and benefits of increasing health
systems’ resilience through improved
immunization data quality and use
interventions: Evidence from the BID
Initiative in Tanzania and Zambia
Mercy Mvundura Senior Health
Economist,
PATH, United
States
Seattle United
States
68 Addressing the Social Determinants of
Health at community level in Madaba
district in Jordan and exploring its
applications in other countries
Sana Naffa Canadian
Accreditation
Council
Edmonto
n
Canada
2513 Service Availability and Readiness
Assessment of tuberculosis in Public
and Private Health Facilities, Myanmar
Phyo-
Aung
Naing Department of
Medical
Research
(Myanmar)
Yangon Myanmar
2407 What drives family planning clients to
franchised centres in rural Pakistan: a
qualitative stocktaking with stakeholders
of a large-scale program
Hina Najmi Marie Stopes
Society
Karachi Pakistan
3083 Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages
to reduce overweight and obesity in
middle-income countries: a systematic
review
Sharon Nakhimov
sky
Abt
Associates
Bethesda United
States
2141 Visibilising, Operationalising, De-
stigmatising: Practices of Inclusion in
Urban Health Care Provisioning across
five Indian cities
Devaki Nambiar Public Health
Foundation of
India
Gurgaon India
639 Fortalecimiento de los gobiernos locales
a través del empoderamiento de las
comunidades en la creación de
sistemas de agua y alcantarillado
Ingrid Nanne Fundación del
Azúcar
Guatemal
a City
Guatemal
a
1287 Health value for money: Economic
evaluation of user fee reduction/removal
policies in Burkina Faso
Hoa Nguyen Institue of
Public Health,
University of
Heidelberg
Heidelber
g
Germany
969 Strengthening the use of evidence,
information and research for policy-
making: A 5-year action plan for the 53
Member States of the WHO European
Region
Tim Nguyen World Health
Organization
Regional
Office for
Europe
Copenha
gen
Denmark
119 Care Rationing: A New Phenomenon in
Nursing
Alireza Nikbakht
Nasrabadi
Tehran
University of
Medical
Sciences
Tehran Iran
2774 Assessing the role of INGOs in creating
system focused partnerships with CSOs
towards improvement of immunization
outcomes in Africa; the CRS approach
to systems strengthening
MONICA NJOROGE-
NDORIA
Catholic Relief
Services -
East Africa
Regional
Office
Nairobi Kenya
1901 Challenges of implementing the
Performance-Based Financing scheme
at the community level for nutrition
services in Burundi: a qualitative
research protocol
SANDRA NKURUNZ
IZA
University of
Burundi/Facult
y of Medicine
Bujumbur
a
Burundi
1446 Willingness to pay for health insurance
in low and middle income countries;
systematic review & meta analysis
shirin nosratneja
d
Iranian Center
of Excellence
in Health
Services
Management,
school of
management
and medical
informatics,
Tabriz
University of
Medical
Sciences,
Tabriz, Iran
Tabriz Iran
538 Client satisfaction survey improved
HIV/AIDS service delivery in Nigeria’s
Federal Capital Territory (FCT)
Dino Nsima Management
Sciences for
Health
FCT, Nigeria
1904 Optimizing Clients’ Retention and
Quality of Care by “Triangulation of
PLHIV’s Data” Reduced Workload and
Cost in Rural HIV-Clinics in North-
Central Nigeria: Experiences and
Challenges
Emmanuel Nwabueze Management
Sciences for
Health
MSH/Abuj
a.
Nigeria
1930 Experiences of the Performance
Management System at District level in
South Africa: a development,
mentorship or monitoring tool?
Nonhlanhl
a
Nxumalo Centre for
Health
Policy/MRC
Health Policy
Research
Group; School
of Public
Health,
Faculty of
Health
Sciences,
University of
the
Witwatersrand
Johannes
burg
South
Africa
242 Clinical mid-level managers - The
challenge of distributed leadership in
practice in Kenyan public hospitals
JACINTA NZINGA KEMRI-
WELLCOME
TRUST
RESEARCH
PROGRAMM
E
NAIROBI Kenya
3092 Does the Voice of Civil Society
Coalitions Influence Health Sector
Reforms in Nigeria? A Case Study of
Health Sector Reform Coalition of
Nigeria
Felix Obi Health Reform
Foundation of
Nigeria
Abuja Nigeria
402 Perceptions of health stakeholders on
task shifting and motivation of
community healthworkers in different
socio demographic contexts in Kenya
(nomadic, peri-urban and rural agrarian)
beverlyn Ochieng great lakes
university of
kisumu
kisumu kenya
25 The aid effectiveness discourse: Impact
of aid on health outcomes in Uganda
Tonny Odokonye
ro
Economic
Policy
Research
Centre
Kampala Uganda
1685 Influence of organisational culture on
implementation of free maternal and
child healthcare programme in Nigeria:
a case-based health system analysis.
Daniel Ogbuabor University of
Nigeria Enugu
Campus
Enugu Nigeria
2067 Strategic purchasing to improve
performance of health care providers:
The role of agency in public integrated
health system in Enugu state
Ibe Ogochukw
u
Health Policy
Research
Group,
College of
Medicine
Enugu
Campus
Nigeria
482 Impact of the EMBRACE intervention
package on better uptake of maternal
newborn health services in Ghana
Sumiyo Okawa The University
of Tokyo
113-0033 Japan
803 The cost of free health care for all
Kenyans: Assessing the feasibility of the
contributory and non-contributory
financing mechanisms, 2013 – 2030
Vincent Okungu Strathmore
University
Nairobi Kenya
1776 CLOSING THE GAP: DETERMINANTS
OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH
BEHAVIOUR; EXPERIENCE IN
OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY
PRE-DEGREE SCHOOL, MORO, ILE
IFE . OSUN STATE. NIGERIA.
OLUWAT
OYIN
OLADIME
JI
DEPARTMEN
T OF
PEADIATRIC
S, OBAFEMI
AWOLOWO
UNIVERSITY
TEACHING
HOSPITAL
COMPLEX
OSUN Nigeria
483 LINKING RESEARCH TO POLICY: A
SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
OF TRENDS, CHALLENGES AND
SUGGESTED WAY FORWARD FOR
HEALTH POLICY MAKING IN
NIGERIA, FROM 2011-2015
OLAWAL
E
OLADIME
JI
UNIVERSITY
OF SYDNEY
SYDNEY,
NEW
SOUTH
WALES
Australia
3442 Putting CHWs on the map: toward a
geography of community health workers
Nicholas Oliphant UNICEF
Headquarters
New
York,
New York
United
States
2318 Review of 2010 – 2015 State Strategic
Health Development Plan (SSHDP),
Ebonyi State Nigeria
Gladys Olisaekee Jhpiego Abakaliki Nigeria
1803 “Courage and Patience”: Learning about
the Enablement of Health Systems
Resilience from a Large Scale
Intervention in Sofala, Mozambique
Jill Olivier University of
Cape Town,
School of
Public Health
and Family
Medicine
Cape
Town
South
Africa
1032 EVALUATION OF TASK SHARING
USING COMMUNITY HEALTH
VOLUNTEERS TO DELIVER
MATERNAL & NEONATAL CARE
SERVICES ON KNOWLEDGE,
PRACTICES AND COVERAGE IN
RURAL NORTH RIFT, KENYA
Martin Omedo HealthRight
International,
Kitale, Kenya
Kitale Kenya
2675 Integration of vertical programmes
within health systems in sub-Saharan
Africa: A Snapshot of three African
countries- Cameroon, Nigeria and
Rwanda.
Charity OMENKA University of
Montreal
Montréal Canada
1662 The Health challenges of Human
trafficking on young ladies in Benin City,
Nigeria
Esosa Omodanm
wen
Igbinedion
university
okada
Benin
City
Nigeria
284 ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR TIMELY
EMERGENCY OBSTETRIC REGISTER
AS A STRATEGY FOR MATERNAL
MORTALITY REDUCTION
IGNACIO ORTIZ
ALDANA
FACULTAD
DE
NEGOCIOS
UDLSB-
ESTANCIA
POSTDOCTO
RAL EN
ISAPEG
GUANAJ
UATO
GUANAJ
UATO
Mexico
3060 Determinantes de la Mortalidad Materna
en Colombia, 2003 - 2012
Martha Ospino
Guzmán
Universidad El
Bosque
Maestría
en Salud
sexual y
reproducti
va
Colombia
30 THE INFLUENCE OF COMMUNITY
BASED HEALTH INFORMATION
SYSTEMS ON ANTENATAL CARE
AND HEALTH FACILITY DELIVERY IN
BUTERE SUBCOUNTY, WESTERN
KENYA.
ELIZABET
H
OTIENO GREAT
LAKES
UNIVERSITY
OF KISUMU
KISUMU Kenya
3058
Has the "Exempt" Benefited from the
National Health Care Financing
Policy(NHIS) over a Decade of
Implementation?Coverage, Access and
Utilization of Health Care among
Ghanaian Adolescents.
Doris Ottie-
Boakye
University of
Ghana, Legon
- Regional
Institute for
Population
Studies
Accra Ghana
1714 CAPITATION AS PROVIDER
PAYMENT METHOD AND SERVICE
QUALITY: FOR BETTER OR WORSE?
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM
GHANA’S NATIONAL HEALTH
INSURANCE SCHEME
Richmond Owusu University of
Ghana
Accra Ghana
3448 What determines patients’ preferences
for common diseases in children in poor
population of Indonesia in the era of
universal health coverage? A discrete
choice experiment
Retna Padmawat
i
Center for
Health Policy
and
Management,
Faculty of
Medicine,
Universitas
Gadjah Mada
Yogyakart
a
Indonesia
3204 An assessment of the resilience of the
Argentine health system in the context
of the socio-economic crisis in 2001-
2002
Alfredo Palacios Center for the
Study of State
and Society
(CEDES)
Buenos
Aires
Argentina
2901 Equity in access to life-saving
cardiovascular disease care: Measuring
the scale of inequities in hypertension
management between the rich and poor
in 21 countries worldwide
Lia Palileo-
Villanueva
College of
Medicine,
University of
the Philippines
Manila
Manila Philippines
304 Unequal access to preventive care in
China: analyses based on the 2011
Chinese Health and Nutrition Survey
Xiong-Fei Pan West China
School of
Public Health,
Sichuan
University
Chengdu China
2034 Examining the regulation of social
insurance schemes in odisha India
Rajmohan Panda Public Health
Foundation of
India
Gurgaon,
122002
India
1891 Female Community Health Volunteers
providing maternal health services in
Nepal: health system support and
barriers.
Sarita Panday The University
of Sheffield
Sheffield United
Kingdom
1488 Ageing in an unequal country: the case
of Chile
Guillermo Paraje Universidad
Adolfo Ibañez
Santiago
de Chile
Chile
1345 Cost reduction versus quality
improvements: Using the case of public
health facility deliveries in Senegal
Divya Parmar City University
London
London United
Kingdom
1000 Medicalizing the Body of Rural Poor
under Community Clinic centred Health
Care and Service Delivery: A Qualitative
Study of Sylinda Community Clinic of
Rajshahi District
M. Kamal Pasa University of
Rajshahi
Rajshahi Banglades
h
1892 Towards efficient and integrated service
delivery in HIV Primary Care: Digital
depression screening ‘while you wait’
Ruth Passchier London
School of
Hygiene &
Tropical
Medicine
(student)
London United
Kingdom
1030 Addressing unique challenges of
Implementation Research at the field
sites: the resilient health system
researcher?
Gupteswa
r
Patel Public Health
Foundation of
India, Delhi
Gurgaon,
Delhi
NCR
India
1703 Data collection on rural posting
/deployment of health workers in post
crisis settings using a mixed method
approach: A case of rural Zimbabwe.
Mildred Pepukai Biomedical
Research and
Training
Institute
Harare Zimbabwe
2869 Emergency obstetric and gynecological
surgery by midwives in Mozambique:
outcome of 7382 major surgeries.
Caetano Pereira ISCISA Maputo Mozambiq
ue
2872 Eliminating Parallel Reporting: Lessons
Learned from Tanzanian HIV Data
Systems
Sriyanjit Perera CTS Global
Assigned to
U.S.
Government
Centers for
Disease
Control and
Prevention
Tanzania
Dar es
Salaam
Tanzania
353 Stratégies visant à accroître la
demande de vaccination infantile dans
les pays en développement : Révision
systématique et méta-analyse
Myriam Pérez
Osorio
Université de
Montréal
Montréal Canada
2301 Revisión sistemática: rutas de atención
en salud un instrumento de
implementación del modelo de atención
en salud
Angela Pérez-
Gómez
Instituto de
Evaluación
Tecnológica
en Salud
Bogotá,
Colombia
Colombia
2777 An exploratory study assessing
psychological distress of the poorest in
Burkina Faso: A first step towards
understanding mental health needs in
West Africa.
Émilie Pigeon-
Gagné
Université du
Québec à
Montréal
Montréal Canada
1486 The impact of clinical social franchising
for maternal health: Quasi-experimental
evidence from a prospective evaluation
in Uttar Pradesh, India
Timothy Powell-
Jackson
London
School of
Hygiene and
Tropical
Medicine
London United
Kingdom
844 Citizen Contribution-Complementing
and supplementing healthcare need in
India
KEERTI PRADHAN CHITKARA
UNIVERSITY
CHITKAR
A
UNIVERS
ITY
India
328 Use of mobile technology for
strengthening primary health care
services in Rajasthan
Rajnish Prasad United
Nations
Population
Fund
(UNFPA)
Jaipur India
1464 Integrating gender equality, social
inclusion and equity into health systems:
Experience and learning from Nepal
Sitaram Prasai Nepal Health
Systems
Strengthening
Programme,
Options
London United
Kingdom
2058 Challenges for Implementation
Research Training in Sri Lanka
Kalana Prasanka Faculty of
Medicine and
Allied
Sciences,
Rajarata
University of
Sri Lanka
Anuradha
pura
Sri Lanka
3347 Understanding the uninsured population
in Peru
A. Lorena Prieto Universidad
del Pacífico
Lima Peru
1143 System Design for the Immunization
Supply Chain: Advancing Towards
Efficiency and Resilience
Wendy Prosser VillageReach Seattle United
States
568 Challenges and opportunities to the
development and utilization of context
appropriate evidence based clinical
algorithms in the Tikur Anbessa
Emergency Department, Ethiopia.
Lisa Puchalski
Ritchie
Li Ka Shing,
Knowledge
Institute, St.
Michael's
Hospital;
Department of
Medicine,
University of
Toronto;
Department of
Emergency
Medicine,
University
Health
Network
Toronto Canada
1086 A novel toolkit for planning, monitoring
and evaluating research capacity
strengthening programmes
Justin Pulford LSTM
(Liverpool
School of
Tropical
Medicine)
Liverpool United
Kingdom
1942 Exploring the Influence of Health
System Governance on Functionality of
Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric
and Newborn Care Facilities in Kenya
Thidar Pyone Liverpool
School of
Tropical
Medicine
Liverpool United
Kingdom
429 The equity of implementation of NCMS
in SiChuan—A Case of Fushun County
jiao qiao West China
School of
Public Health,
Sichuan
University
Chengdu,
Sichuan
China
2731 Evaluación y mejoramiento de la
capacidad de gestión del sistema de
salud en los municipios de Antioquia
(Colombia). 2004 a 2014.
Héctor Quirós Secretaría
Seccional de
Salud de
Antioquia -
Gobernación
de Antioquia.
Universidad
Cooperativa
de Colombia
Medellín Colombia
2536 Factors influencing drug prescription
practices of formal and informal
healthcare providers in Low and Middle
Income Countries
Md Hafizur Rahman Johns
Hopkins
University
Bloomberg
School of
Public Health
Baltimore United
States
2441 e-Partograph, an innovation to improve
use of partograph: Preliminary findings
from two tertiary level public hospitals in
Bangladesh
Aminur Rahman icddr,b Dhaka Banglades
h
3274 Husbands’ Knowledge and Practice on
Maternal Health Issues and its effect on
Obstetric Care Utilization in rural
Bangladesh: A Cross-sectional analysis
Ahmed
Ehsanur
Rahman icddr,b Dhaka Banglades
h
809 Hospital care quality in Indonesia UHC:
Accreditation or payment system?
EDHIE RAHMAT USAID
Indonesia
Jakarta Indonesia
455 Building governance of health service
delivery in Easternmost Indonesia
districts
Edhie Rahmat USAID
Indonesia
Jakarta Indonesia
64 Determinants of Self-Directed Referrals
amongst patients at District Hospitals in
eThekwini District, KwaZulu Natal 2015
Alishka Rajman University of
KwaZulu Natal
Durban South
Africa
528 Community level Health System
Strengthening: Defaulter Tracking of
mothers and children.
Shukhrat Rakhimdja
nov
UNICEF
Bangladesh
Country Office
Dhaka Banglades
h
793 The role of One Stop Crisis
Management Center in improving
access to quality services and support
to GBV survivors through multi-sectoral
partnerships and collaborations
Rekha Rana Nepal Health
Sector
Support
Program
(NHSSP),
Ministry of
Health
Ramshah
Path,
Kathman
du
Nepal
2262 Perception and Social Determinants of
Physical Inactivity in Middle Aged Urban
Population
Alok Ranjan Tata Institute
of Social
Sciences,
Mumbai, India
Mumbai India
2227 Social Determinants of Childhood
Malnutrition – the Loss of Innocence:
Evidence from Karnataka, India
Shreelata Rao
Seshadri
Azim Premji
University
Bangalor
e
India
1224 A Health System Dynamics analysis of
implementation of PMTCT Option B+ in
Uganda
Nika Raphaely South African
Medical
Research
Council
Pretoria South
Africa
929 `Almost there!’ Institutional and
organizational practices, policy barriers
and opportunities for universal health
coverage in Iran
Arash Rashidian School of
Public
Health,1Depar
tment of
Health
Management
and
Economics
Tehran Iran
901 Cost- Utility Analysis of Diabetic
Retinopathy Tele-Screening in South of
Tehran Province, Iran 2015
Arash Rashidian Director of
Information,
Evidence and
Research
Eastern
Mediterranean
Region, World
Health
Organization
City Iran
1065 Better Governance & Organizational
Architecture: Intrinsic factors for an
effective healthcare purchasing in
Kerala
Apurva Rastogi Public Health
Foundation of
India
Gurgaon India
306 Developing Low Birth Weight (LBW)
risk score for pregnant women in India.
Apurva Ratnu Health &
Family
Welfare
Department,
Government
of Gujarat,
India
Gandhina
gar
India
3001 Assessing How Social Determinants
Drive Out of Pocket Expenditure in
Health and Inequity in Accessing
Maternal and Child Health Services in
Jordan
Nirmala Ravishank
ar
Thinkwell
Institute
Washingt
on DC
United
States
643 Bullying during residency, a
phenomenon behind the curtain:
Can mistreatment ever be “beneficial” to
a physician’s training?
Fabiana Reboiras Hospital
Italiano de
Buenos Aires -
Instituto
Universitario
Buenos
Aires
Argentina
442 Assessing dose-response effects of
policy intervention: comparison of two
methods in handling data with a quaze
stepped-wedge design and hierarchical
structure
Yan Ren Department of
Epidemiology
and
Biostatistics,
West China
School of
Public Health,
Sichuan
University
Chengdu China
1080 Strengthening Routine Supportive
Supervision of Primary Healthcare in
Tanzania through an Innovative
Approach Using an Electronic Tool
Sabine Renggli Swiss Tropical
and Public
Health
Institute
Basel Switzerlan
d
746 Adding oil and glue to the prescription of
Performance-Based Financing:
a modular theory of change based on
the interlinkages between the different
reform elements
Dimitri Renmans Institute of
Development
Policy and
Management
(IOB),
University of
Antwerp
Antwerp Belgium
1396 METRIC TO EVALUATE THE
UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE IN
THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT GOALS: Effective
coverage of treatment of hypertension
in Mexico 2012 by states
María
Jesús
Ríos
Blancas
National
Institute of
Public Health -
Centre for
Health
Systems
Research
Cuernava
ca-
Morelos
Mexico
1893 Role of Frontline Health Workers in
Building Responsive Health System – A
Case of Maternal and Child Health
Programme in India
Venkatesh Roddawar National
Health
Systems
Resource
Centre
New
Delhi
India
3072 Webinars as a tool for knowledge
translation through international nursing
networks towards Advanced Practice
Nursing implementation in Latin
America
Lauren Rosales Pan American
Health
Organization
Washingt
on, DC
United
States
107 Role of an international non-
governmental organization in
strengthening health systems in fragile-
state context: Evaluation results from
South Sudan.
Alfonso Rosales World Vision
US
Washingt
on DC
United
States
3187 Reforms in Pubblic Sector Hospitals in
India:
the Retreat of Universal Health
Coverage?
BIJOYA ROY CENTRE FOR
WOMEN'S
DEVELOPME
NT STUDIES
NEW
DELHI
India
2183 Research on Public Hospital
Compensation Based on the Game
analysis among Stakeholders
Li Ruipeng Ningxia
Medical
University
Ningxia
Medical
University
China
630 Bottleneck Analysis and Strategic
Planning using Tanahashi model for
Childhood Diarrhea Management in
Gujarat, Western India
Mihir Rupani Government
Medical
College
Bhavnagar,
Gujarat, India
Bhavnaga
r
India
1031 Evaluating the impact of an electronic
inventory management system on the
frequency and duration of stock-outs in
Rwanda
Hinda Ruton University of
Rwanda
Kigali Rwanda
3394 Public Sector Financing of Non
Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in
India
AMIT SAHOO PUBLIC
HEALTH
FOUNDATIO
N OF INDIA
GURGAO
N
India
910 Regard des personnes vivant avec le
VIH sur la gratuité de soins: contribution
à la mise en oeuvre de l’assurance
maladie universelle au Burkina Faso
Leticia SAKANA Centre
MURAZ
Bobo
Dioulasso
Burkina
Faso
916 Why women bypass health facilities for
childbirth in Gujarat state, India? A
multilevel study
Mariano Salazar IHCAR,
Dept.of Public
Health
Sciences,
Karolinska
Institutet,
Stockholm,
Sweden
Stockhol
m
Sweden
2596 Development and Implementation of
Evidence-Informed Advocacy Strategies
in Promoting Effective Policies for
Childhood Obesity Prevention in
Lebanon
Rana Saleh Amercian
University of
Beirut
Beirut Lebanon
823 A SOCIOECOLOGICAL APPROACH
TO UNDERSTANDING GENERAL
PRACTITIONERS’ BARRIERS AND
FACILITATORS TO PRUDENT
ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIBING
Erika Saliba Dept. of Public
Health
Sciences,
Karolinska
Institutet,
Stockholm,
Sweden
Stockhol
m
Sweden
2799 Accountability mechanisms in Public-
Private Partnerships: Evidence from the
RSBY enrolment process, India
Deepika Saluja Indian Institute
of
Management
Ahmedabad
Ahmedab
ad
India
1166 CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES,
PRIMARY HEALTHCARE-SENSITIVE
CONDITIONS IN BRAZIL: hospital
admission rates and economic impact
second municipal population size and
hospital legal nature
Fernanda Sanches Universidade
Federal de
Minas Gerais
Belo
Horizonte
Brazil
2784 Increased responsiveness versus
system capacity: Linkage to care after
HIV testing in outreach and facility-
based testing sites in rural Mbeya
Region, Tanzania.
Erica Sanga Mbeya
Medical
Research
Centre
(MMRC)
Mbeya Tanzania
1695 The multi-faceted barriers for access to
amoxicillin in children with pneumonia
Amrita Sankarana
rayanan
University of
Copenhagen
Copenha
gen
Denmark
2986 Partnerships for health access on
HIV/AIDS and Viral Hepatitis in the
Amazon Basin in Brazil: promoting
health to indigenous peoples and
riparian populations
Melina Santos Department of
STI, AIDS and
Viral Hepatitis,
Secretariat of
Health
Surveillance,
Ministry of
Health of
Brazil
Brasília Brazil
893 Government and Three International
Donors in Strengthening Health System:
A Case Study of West Bengal, India
Amitabha Sarkar Centre for
Social
Medicine and
Community
Health,
Jawaharlal
Nehru
University
New
Delhi
India
688 Volunteer Health Workers of BRAC:
Home Contact, and Associated Barriers
and Facilitators to Visiting Households
with Children Under-5 in Bangladesh
Haribondh
u
Sarma Nutrition and
Clinical
Services
Division,
icddr,b
Dhaka Banglades
h
2260 Cost-effectiveness of an electronic
clinical decision support system for
improving quality of antenatal and
childbirth care in rural Tanzania: an
intervention study
Happiness Saronga Muhimbili
University of
Health and
Allied
Sciences
Dar es
salaam
Tanzania
3243 Perspectives on health worker
motivation in four rural districts of
mainland Tanzania
Miho Sato Nagasaki
University
Nagasaki Japan
2978 Evaluating the Infant and Young Child
Feeding in Emergency (IYCF-E)
Programme in Jordan, 2013-2015:
Transitioning from Refugee-focus
towards National Systems
Strengthening on IYCF Programming
Midori Sato UNICEF
Jordan
Country Office
Amman Jordan
1896 Hospital Outreach Matters: Contextual-
Organizational Interaction and Patient
Satisfaction
Melody Schiaffino San Diego
State
University
San
Diego
United
States
2416 Integrating Family Planning and
Immunization Services in Benin: Adding
to the Evidence of a Promising Practice
Heidi Schroffel CARE USA Atlanta United
States
2396 Illuminating the “Black Box”: How
performance-based incentives affect
health workers delivering prevention of
vertical transmission of HIV in rural
Mozambique
Roseanne Schuster Cornell
University
Ithaca United
States
993 Health care providers’ perspectives on
Indonesian national health insurance
(Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional, JKN)
Susy Sebayang Airlangga
University,
Banyuwangi
Campus,
Indonesia
Surabaya Indonesia
2814 Improving equity in public sector service
delivery in India: Benefit incidence
analysis of health care utilization for
inpatient and outpatient care, 2004 and
2014
Sakthivel Selvaraj Public Health
Foundation of
India
Gurgaon,
Haryana
3278 The role of communities in developing
tools for knowledge dissemination and
measuring improvements in community
based Health Promotion programs –
examples from Sri Lanka
Lalith
Senarathn
a
Senarathn
a
Health
Promotion
Division,
Rajarata
University of
Sri Lanka
Mihinthal
e
Sri Lanka
1364 Sustainability of a results-based
financing pilot project: case study in two
health districts in Mali
Mathieu Seppey IRSPUM Montréal Canada
2048 Implementation of local Health
Committees among native communities
of the Peruvian Amazon to improve
healthcare quality
Felipe SERE Belgian
Development
Agency
Lima Peru
1824 An assessment of barriers for teachers
to carry out Sexual Education in
Rwandan schools.
Ndashimy
e
Serge
Jean Paul
University of
Rwanda,
College of
Medicine and
Health
Sciences
Huye City Rwanda
2584 Implementation as if participation
matters: Conducting participatory action
research with indigenous communities
in southern India for local action on
maternal health
Tanya Seshadri Vivekananda
Girijana
Kalyana
Kendra
Chamaraj
anagar
district,
Karnatak
a
India
1688 Maternal, newborn, dan child health
(MNCH) services in the early
implementation of universal health care
scheme in Indonesia
Budhi Setiawan United
Nations
Children's
Fund
(UNICEF)
Jakarta Indonesia
2742 Experiences in implementing District
Health Information System 2 (DHIS2) to
strengthen capacity of public health
institutes to support evidence-informed
programme and planning in Bangladesh
Sohana Shafique International
Centre for
Diarrhoeal
Disease
Research,
Bangladesh
(icddr,b)
Dhaka-
1212
Banglades
h
2367 An empowering and innovative
approach to facility quality improvement
in a resource constrained health
system, an example from Bihar, India
Hemantku
mar
Shah CARE India Patna India
1992 Social ecological model to explore the
maternal health care- seeking behavior
of married adolescent girls in
Bangladesh
ASM SHAHABU
DDIN
Institute of
Tropical
Medicine
Antwerp
Antwerp Belgium
3183 Measurement of public health system
performance in Haryana state, India
Atul Sharma Post-graduate
Institute of
Medical
Education and
Research,
Chandigarh
Chandiga
rh
India
3172 Can the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist
improve the quality of care at childbirth
in rural India? Evidence from a
qualitative study in Rajasthan
Jigyasa Sharma Harvard T.H.
Chan School
of Public
Health
Boston United
States
2730 Understanding the Health System
Response to Recurring Dengue
Outbreaks in Delhi, India
Aastha Sharma National
Health
Systems
Resource
Center
New
Delhi
India
3179 Cost-effectiveness of durable liner and
indoor residual spraying to prevent
malaria in Kenya and Tanzania
Donald Shepard Brandeis
University
Waltham,
MA
United
States
1581 Authorship for researchers in low and
middle income countries, 2014-2016: a
bibliometric analysis
Miriam Shuchman Faculty of
Medicine
(Psychiatry),
University of
Toronto
Scarboro
ugh,
Ontario
M1C 1A4
Canada
2143 Political Will for Health Governance –
An Analysis of Parliamentary Questions
on Health in India
Prithivi
Prakash
Sivapraka
sh
National
Health
Systems
Resource
Centre
New
Delhi
India
223 Chronic Disease Management: The
Role of the Global Nurse
Sandra Skerratt York
University -
The Dahdaleh
Institute for
Global Health
Toronto,
ON
Canada
2845 Evidence and rationale for use of
existing “big data” and methods to link
household and health facility survey
data within and across countries.
Samantha Ski The
Uniformed
Services
University of
the Health
Sciences
Bethesda United
States
3056 Community engagement and facility
governance: critical factors for
maintaining high quality services in
Primary Health Units (PHUs) in Sierra
Leone
Princess Sowa JSI R&T Inc.,
Advancing
Partners &
Communities
Freetown United
States
2683 Promoting Positive Social Norms in
Support of Zero Tolerance for Gender-
based Violence in Rural Zambia
Miniratu Soyoola Health
Partners
International
Lewes United
Kingdom
1366 Assessing the Effectiveness of a Mental
Health Training Program on General
Practitioners' (GPs) Attitudes Towards
Mental Illness in Tunisia
Jessica Spagnolo School of
Public Health;
IRSPUM,
Université de
Montréal
Montreal Canada
3454 Sustaining gains through Universal
Health Coverage: A policy and research
agenda for improving working
conditions for health workers
Jerry Spiegel University of
British
Columbia
Vancouve
r
Canada
382 Trust-building in maternity care through
empowerment and communicative
action: qualitative exploration amidst
Kenya’s policy transition
Pooja Sripad Johns
Hopkins
Bloomberg
School of
Public Health
Baltimore United
States
2250 Inequity in chronic illness care in twenty
Indian states, 2012
Swati Srivastava Public Health
Foundation of
India
Gurgaon,
Haryana
India
2336 Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition
Committees for decentralized health
planning and action: a mixed methods
study in rural eastern India
Aradhana Srivastava Public Health
Foundation of
India
Gurgaon India
2781 RESULTS BASED FINANCING (RBF)
SCALE-UP IN UGANDA:
ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS FOR
THE INCREASING INTEREST IN RBF
DELIBERATIONS IN UGANDA
BETWEEN 2013 AND 2015.
Freddie Ssengoob
a
Makerere
University
School of
Public Health
Kampala Uganda
2741 Research priority setting for health
systems development to advance
Universal health coverage in Uganda:
The stakeholder perspectives and
involvement.
Aloysius Ssennyonj
o
Makerere
University
School of
Public health
Kampala Uganda
2835 The Task Sharing Family Planning
Working Group - working towards
increased access to contraception at a
reduced cost
John Stanbeck Marie Stopes
International
London UK
1169 Institutionalizing Community-Focused
Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
Strategies to Strengthen Health
Systems: A New Framework for the
Sustainable Development Goal Era
William Story University of
Iowa College
of Public
Health
Iowa City United
States
1454 Using sub-national data to inform
integrated multi-sectoral system
improvements for health and nutrition in
Odisha State, India
Sarah Style Technical
Management
Support Team
for health and
nutrition in
Odisha
Bhubanes
war
India
1211 Out-of-Pocket Costs of Cancer Care:
An Evidence-based Study in Rural
China
Xiaojie Sun Center for
Health
Management
and Policy,
Shandong
University,
Jinan, China
Jinan China
1003 Benefit equity analysis of Integrated Me
dical Insurance System
in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of
China
yufeng sun Ningxia
medical
university
Yinchuan China
726 Study on the Relationship between Inpu
t and Output of Human Resources for H
ealth
in Rural areas of Western
China
Yufeng Sun Ningxia
medical
university
Yinchuan China
235 EVALUATION OF PUBLIC POLICY IN
CHILE: A 10 YEARS OF THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE EXAM
PROVIDED FREE WITH VOLUNTARY
ACCES
Robert Tegtmeier Superintenden
cia de Salud-
Chile
Santiago Chile
1340 Health and quality nutrition: access
costs and difificulties in public policy
design in Argentina.
Karina Temporelli Instituto
Investigacione
s Económicas
y Sociales del
Sur.
Universidad
Nacional del
Sur
Bahía
Blanca
Argentina
2196
Qualitative exploration of healthcare
system trust in a developing country
context.
ANAND THAKARA
KKATTIL
NARAYAN
AN NAIR
Health Action
by People
TRIVAND
RUM
India
1346 Effectiveness of Community Health
Workers in Promotion of Maternal
Health Services in Butere District, Rural
Western Kenya
Caroline Thaluliba Great Lakes
University of
Kisumu
KISUMU Kenya
1170 Auxiliary Midwives in Myanmar:Resilient
and responsible or collides with policy in
saving lives of mothers in hard to reach
areas of Myanmar
Kyu Kyu Than University of
Melbourne,
Australia:
Burnet
Institute,Myan
mar : Burnet
Institute,
Australia
Melbourn
e
Australia
2857 Engaging the Private Sector in PHC to
Achieve UHC: Advice from
Implementers to Implementers
Cicely Thomas Results for
Development
Institute
Washingt
on, DC
United
States
1459 Health system strengthening to reduce
health and nutrition inequities: evidence
from Odisha, India
Deborah Thomas Options and
IPE Global
London United
Kingdom
2863 Innovating beyond traditional
measurements- Health system
preparedness for emergency obstetric
care service delivery in a South African
district
Siphiwe Thwala University of
the
Witwatersrand
Johannes
burg
South
Africa
289 Initiation of Bhutan Cancer Registry:
experiences, progress and future
challenges and Cancer Epidemiology
from low-middle income country
NARHARI TIMILSHIN
A
University of
Toronto,
University
Health
Network,
Toronto
University
of
Toronto,
Toronto
Canada
1863 Planning to Practice of Heat-Health
Action Plan in Ahmedabad- A Success
story
abhiyant tiwari Indian Institute
of Public
Health
Gandhinagar
Ahmedab
ad
India
640 Setting-up Leprosy Post-Exposure
Prophylaxis in Health Systems of India,
Nepal and Indonesia: A case study
Anuj Tiwari Department of
Public Health,
Erasmus MC,
University
Medical
Center
Rotterdam,
The
Netherlands
Rotterda
m
Netherlan
ds
2132 Understanding mSOS: A qualitative
study following cluster randomized
controlled trial testing effectiveness of
mobile short message service-based
disease outbreak alert system in rural
Kenya
Mitsuru Toda KEMRI
Nagasaki
University
Institute of
Tropical
Medicine,
JICA
Nairobi Kenya
1375 Understanding optimal use of vector-
control interventions on malaria in sub-
Saharan Africa
Andrew Tomayer University of
Ottawa
Ottawa Canada
1343 Advancing health systems planning:
Lessons learned from applying needs-
based health workforce planning
models
Gail Tomblin
Murphy
WHO/PAHO
Collaborating
Centre on
Health
Workforce
Planning &
Research,
Dalhousie
University,
Halifax, NS
Canada
Halifax,
NS
Canada
2082 Development of a novel information
exchange network system: preparing for
medical needs in future disasters
Naoko Tomita National
Institute of
Public Health
Wako Japan
1623 Understanding patient decisions to
disengage from HIV care and treatment
in Zambia: a social-ecological analysis
Stephanie Topp James Cook
University
Townsvill
e
Australia
1533 Policy Brief: Interventions to prevent,
delay or reduce the degree of frailty in
hospitalized elderly
Carol Toro Escuela de
Salud Pública.
Facultad de
Ciencias.
Universidad
Mayor. Chile.
Santiago Chile
2698 Does subsidising the private for-profit
sector benefit the poor? Evidence from
the Affordable Medicines Facility –
malaria (AMFm) in Nigeria and Uganda
Sarah Tougher London
School of
Hygiene and
Tropical
Medicine
London United
Kingdom
1049 Politics and power dynamics in health
system reform: exploring the formation
of a South African community health
worker union
Zara Trafford University of
Cape Town
Cape
Town
South
Africa
764 Assessing the impact of a Community-
Based Rehabilitation Program in
Afghanistan: Re-thinking health services
for the most vulnerable populations in a
conflict affected state.
Jean
Francois
Trani Washington
University in
St Louis
St Louis United
States
3434 Maintaining responsiveness through
implementation of a program for
monitoring of young Roma pregnant
women in Bulgaria
Petya Trendafilo
va
Medical
University -
Sofia, Faculty
of Public
Health
Sofia Bulgaria
1126 Expanding health system capacity to
provide surgical care in low-resource
settings: Integrating pelvic organ
prolapse and genital fistula repair
Vandana Tripathi EngenderHeal
th
New York United
States
2284 The development exit strategy after 5
years project to sustain Sister Hospital
program in remote province Indonesia
(2010-2015)
Laksono TrisnantoroCenter for
health policy
and
management
Daerah
Istimewa
Yogyakart
a
Indonesia
2649 Does Health Care Reform Make
Chronic Disease Patients Use More
Primary Care In China: Evidence From
CHARLS National Survey
SHIYI TU School of
Public Health,
Fudan
University
Shanghai China
1172 Informing health service delivery
decision in India: Approaching the data
quality challenge using routine data
quality assessments (RDQA)
Jordan Tuchman Abt
Associates
Bethesda United
States
1534 Citizen Engagement as Intervention and
Method: Converging Paths toward
Resilience and Relevance in Health
Care Systems Redesign
Anaïs Tuepker VA Portland
Health Care
System/Orego
n Health &
Science
University
Portland United
States
618 Addressing gaps in optimal and
equitable access to primary health care:
A focus on rural households from hard
to reach areas in Myanmar
SU LATT TUN
MYINT
Department of
Medical
Research
Yangon Burma
2075 Towards improved community
involvement in the selection of village
health teams in Uganda: lessons from
the natural helper model of health
promotion
Emmanuei
l
Turinawe Cohere
Project
(Makerere
University and
University of
Amsterdam)
Kampala Uganda
2933 The impact of community based service
pilot intervention on mental health
system in Georgia
Maia Uchaneish
vili
Curatio
International
Foundation
Tbilisi Georgia
158 Does social health insurance lead to
better maternal and child health
outcomes among poor and vulnerable
women?: A case in the Philippines
Valerie
Gilbert
Ulep McMaster
University
Hamilton Canada
1831 Fitting the right framework in analysing
health systems in transition: lessons
from post-Soviet health systems study
Anar Ulikpan School of
Public Health,
University of
Queensland
Brisbane Australia
1777 Using performance-based grants to
improve NGO health service delivery
performance in Bangladesh
Sarah Unninayar Pathfinder
International
Dhaka Banglades
h
1473 Improving access, quality and
accountability of health services through
social audit: A case study from Nepal
Kumar Upadhyay Options London
2833 Implementing the Basic Health Care
Provision Fund in Nigeria: A framework
for accountability and good governance
Benjamin Uzochukw
u
Health Policy
Research
Group,
College of
Medicine,
University of
Nigeria,
Enugu
campus
Enugu Nigeria
1783 Understanding Volunteer Community
Health Worker (CHW) Motivation: A
longitudinal cohort study of CHWs in
Bonthe District, Sierra Leone.
Frédériqu
e
Vallières Centre for
Global Health,
Trinity College
Dublin
Dublin Ireland
255 Developing the Medical Travel Industry
in Latin America: Comparing Different
Public/Private Organizational
Arrangements in Costa Rica, Cuba and
Mexico
Arturo Vargas
Bustaman
te
UCLA Fielding
School of
Public Health
Los
Angeles,
CA
United
States
2540 Scaling Up as Resilience: Lessons from
India’s decade-long Community Health
Worker programme
Rajani Ved National
Health System
Resource
Centre
Delhi India
590 Inclusion of HIV and TB diagnostic and
treatment services in publicly financed
health insurance: review of policies
from Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa
Andre Verani U.S. Centers
for Disease
Control and
Prevention
Atlanta United
States
2997 Key innovations for operationalizing
Primary Health Care in Latin America
drawing on a fourteen-year experience
in Guatemala
Juan Verdugo
Urrejola
Instituto de
Salud
Incluyente
San
Lucas
Guatemal
a
237 Challenges in Tuberculosis Prevention
and Care: Perceptions of health care
providers from four states of India.
Ranjith VG The
International
Union Against
TB and Lung
Disease (The
Union), South
East Asia
Office
New
Delhi
India
2657 Assessing equity in the provision of
primary health care centers in the
Buenos Aires Province: a stochastic
frontier approach
Valentina Viego Universidad
Nacional del
Sur
Bahía
Blanca
Argentina
1570 Condicionantes socioeconómicos de los
factores de riesgo de enfermedades
crónicas: un modelo multivariado para
hipertensión, hipercolesterolemia y
diabetes en Argentina
Valentina Viego Department of
Economics,
Universidad
Nacional del
Sur
Bahia
Blanca
Argentina
3131 Improving frontline worker effectiveness
and quality at scale: An innovative
experiment in addressing supply and
demand in Rajasthan, India
Bharath Visweswar
iah
Antara
Foundation
New
Delhi
India
2025 Why aren’t women rising to the top?
The gendered factors that affect
women’s professional progression in the
Cambodian health sector
Sreytouch Vong RinGs Phnom
Penh
Cambodia
887 Quality of free delivery care for poor
women: A Community based study in
India
Kranti Vora Indian Institute
of Public
Health
Gandhinagar
Ahmedab
ad
India
3431 MENSTRUAL HYGIENE
MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND ITS
ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG
ADOLESCENT HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS
IN SLUM AREAS OF ADDIS ABABA:
THE CASE OF GULLELE SUB CITY
Wosen W/mariam Amref Health
Africa in
Ethiopia
Addis
Ababa
Ethiopia
1970 Finding the right approach: establishing
a mental health and psychosocial
support service in sierra leone following
the ebola virus disease outbreak
Anna Walder King’s Sierra
Leone
Partnership,
King’s Centre
for Global
Health, King’s
College
London
London United
Kingdom
3138 Development Methods and Reporting
Characteristics of Health Policy Briefs
Qi Wang Evidence
Based
Medicine
Center of
Lanzhou
University,
Key
Laboratory of
Evidence
Based
Medicine and
Knowledge
Translation of
Gansu
Province,
Chinese
GRADE
Center
Lanzhou China
1466 The role of social entrepreneurs in
health systems strengthening: new
partners in health systems research and
development.
Elizabeth Watson Leeds
University
Leeds UK
1820 The ‘shock’ of devolution in Kenya:
implications on the financing and
functioning of peripheral health facilities
in Kenya
Everlyn Waweru KEMRI-
Wellcome
Trust
Research
Programme,
CGMRC, Kilifi
Kilifi Kenya
367 Leveraging Knowledge Transfer to
Strengthen Public Health Systems: A
Conceptual Framework
Elizabeth Webster Walden
University
Kennesaa
w
United
States
409 Income-Related Inequalities in
Utilization of Health Services Among
Private Health Insurance Beneficiaries
in Brazil
Heitor Werneck Agência
Nacional de
Saúde
Suplementar
Rio de
Janeiro
Brazil
1778 Consolidation for Evidence-Informed
Policy Network - EVIPNet Brazil: report
of the national experience of building a
knowledge translation platform for
Brazilian Public Healthcare System
(SUS)
Roberta Wichmann Brazilian
Ministry of
Health
Brasilia Brazil
3409 Perceived health status, its associations
and the impact on primary healthcare
utilization: findings from a healthcare
seeking study in an urban setting in Sri
Lanka
Nimali Widanapat
hirana
Ministry of
Healthcare &
Nutrition
Colombo Sri Lanka
2159 Training tomorrow’s nurses by working
with today’s community-based
healthcare workers in rural South Africa
Marisa Wilke University of
the Free State
Bloemfon
tein
South
Africa
2282 Is there geographical diversity of
authors and affiliated institutes in
European health journals? An
assessment of author affiliation in
publications
Katilyn Wilkins Lund
University
Malmö Sweden
856 Linking data sources for improved
measurement of quality of care in
maternal newborn and child health in
low income countries: experience from
Uganda
Barbara Willey London
School of
Hygiene and
Tropical
Medicine,
London, UK
London United
Kingdom
2495 A systematic-narrative review of health
and well-being among Syrian refugees
in the Middle East: a social
determinants of health perspective
Gemma Williams London
School of
Economics
and Political
Science
London United
Kingdom
2145 Integrated Micro-Planning as
a Innovative Approach for
Strengthening Health Systems in
Remote Areas of Papua, Indonesia
Ratih Woelandar
oe
United
Nations
Children's
Fund
(UNICEF)
Jayapura Indonesia
1568 Community health volunteers as
mediators of accessible, responsive and
resilient community health systems:
lessons from the Health Development
Army in Ethiopia
Mirkuzie Woldie London
School of
Hygiene and
Tropical
Medicine
(LSHTM)
Jimma Ethiopia
1911 Health systems research in fragile and
conflict affected states: a research
agenda-setting exercise
Aniek Woodward London
School of
Hygiene &
Tropical
Medicine
London United
Kingdom
2415 Investing in Health Innovation in LMICs
– An analysis of UK, USA, and Canada
government programs from 2010-2015
Diane Wu St. Michael's
Hospital,
University of
Toronto
Toronto Canada
898 A Structure-Process-Outcome
Approach to Evaluating the
Performance of Basic Health Insurance
System in China
Jingxian WU Xi'an Jiaotong
University;
City University
of Hong Kong
Xi'an;
Hong
Kong
China
1236 What can we learn from the work-time
allocation of family nurses and family
doctors in rural Tajikistan so to optimise
health service delivery?
Kaspar Wyss Swiss Tropical
and Public
Health
Institute
Basel Switzerlan
d
3124 Development, Dissemination and
Application of Health Systems Evidence
in China
Ke-hu Yang Evidence
Based
Medicine
Center of
Lanzhou
University,
Key
Laboratory of
Evidence
Based
Medicine and
Knowledge
Translation of
Gansu
Province,
Chinese
GRADE
Center
Lanzhou China
743 Financing strategies to promote basic
public health service equalization in
China
Li YANG Peking
University
Beijing China
375 Who cares for the unhealthy poor rural
elderly? Rural and rural disparity in
home- and community-based long-term
care utilisation in China
Wei Yang University of
Kent
Kent United
Kingdom
1974 ANALYSE COUTS-BENEFICES (ACB)
PROSPECTIVE DU PROGRAMME DE
PLANIFICATION FAMILIALE AU
GABON, 2015-2050
Konan YAO CSD
(Convergence
Santé pour le
Développeme
nt)
Dakar Senegal
762 Women resilience and impact of
changes in reproductive status on their
access to healthcare, domestic and
lucrative work: a qualitative study in
Burkina Faso
Maurice Yaogo AFRICSanté
& Université
Catholique de
l'Afrique de
l'Ouest - Unité
Universitaire à
Bobo-
Dioulasso
(UCAO-UUB)
Bobo-
Dioulasso
Burkina
Faso
1656 Advocacy for a responsive health
system to control diabetes: Learning
from Western Indian State Gujarat,
India
Sandul Yasobant Indian Institute
of Public
Health
Gandhinagar
Ahmedab
ad
India
2823 Partnering to protecting health workers
from infectious disease transmission:
Building a Canadian-South African
Community of Practice
Annalee Yassi University of
British
Columbia
Vancouve
r
Canada
389 Exploring Health shocks and coping
strategies among rural households in
Burkina Faso: a road for defining
universal health coverage
Fadima Yaya
Bocoum
Institut de
Recherche en
Science de la
Santé
Ouagado
ugou
Burkina
Faso
1371 Geographical disparities in the health of
Iranian women: Health outcomes,
behaviors and health care access
indicators
Vahid Yazdi
Feyzabadi
Department of
Health
Management
and
Economics,
School of
Public Health,
Tehran
University of
Medical
Sciences
Tehran Iran
757 Contribution de la méthode des choix
discrets pour déterminer les
préférences du personnel de santé pour
des postes d’emploi en milieu rural au
Burkina Faso
Maurice Yé Centre de
Recherche en
Santé de
Nouna,
Burkina Faso
Nouna Burkina
Faso
1326 Effective Bottom-up Monitoring and
Supervision to Improve Maternal,
Newborn, and Child Health Services in
Ghana
Francis Yeji Navrongo
Health
Research
Centre, GHS
Navrongo Ghana
1887 Résilience et système de santé en
République Démocratique du Congo
Anicet YEMWENI CERDAS/Univ
ersité de
Kinshasa
Kinshasa Congo
(Kinshasa)
312 Depression in people living with
HIV/AIDS in Fitche Hospital, Central
Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study
Tebikew Yeneabat Debre Markos
University
Debre
Markos
Ethiopia
880 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF
DEVELOPMENT AID FOR HEALTH
BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA
Hui Yin School of
Public Heatlh,
Peking
University
Beijing China
3230 A Nutrition-Oral Health Program for
Reducing the Impact of Nutrition
Transition on Indian Children’s Nutrition
and Oral Health
Hannah Yoo Harvard
School of
Dental
Medicine
Boston United
States
3018 The effects of social mix on children
and youth living in poverty: A realist
synthesis of current evidence and a call
for place-based initiatives.
Sharon Yu McMaster
University
Hamilton Canada
2120 Does Design of Pay-For-Performance
Matter? Comparison on the Effects of
Different Pay-For-Performance
Payments
Beibei Yuan Peking
University
Health
Science
Center
Beijing China
2663 Protecting poor pregnant mothers and
newborns in the era of universal health
care scheme: case of Indonesia
Athia Yumna SMERU
Research
Institute
Jakarta Indonesia
3318 STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING
SUSTAINABLE AND EFFECTIVE
ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE
POLICIES IN LOW AND MIDDLE
INCOME COUNTRIES
Lawal Yusuf University of
Oxford
Oxford United
Kingdom
1661 Establishing an automated routine
health information system to improve
tracking of clients across the continuum
of care
Jamil Zaman Save the
Children
Bangladesh
Dhaka Banglades
h
3118 Identifying the methods and data needs
for a comprehensive study of climate
change and malaria in Uganda
Kate Zinszer HealthMap Boston United
States
1476 Assessing quality of care at well-baby
consultations (WBC) for the integration
of preventive and curative nutrition
interventions in Burkina Faso
Amanda Zongrone International
Food Policy
Research
Institute
(IFPRI)
Dakar Senegal