Evidence updates

06 · Health system and policy

Breaking the Barrier: Accessing Quality Healthcare for Uganda’s Aging Population

Highlights Facilitators of access to healthcare include the availability of public health facilities, social support, financial resources, and having a healthcare provider who is a relative. Challenges to accessing healthcare for older authors include a lack of essential medicines for non-communicable diseases, ageism...

Jul 12, 2023 Read

06 · Health system and policy

Quality Doctoral Research can Bolster Africa’s Health System

Highlights Doctoral authors and alumni of the CARTA program have recommended the following based on their research: To achieve universal and effective health coverage, African states must prioritize health system strengthening (HSS). Increased investment in routine health information systems (RHIS) at all levels,...

Apr 13, 2023 Read

06 · Health system and policy

Risks of Partner Abuse in Ever-Married Authors in Uganda

Highlights Childhood exposure to violence predicts future risk of violence. Aside from those who witness violence, one in every three children is a direct survivor of violence. Alcohol consumption is a strong predictor for intimate partner violence (IPV) among women and men in Uganda. A combination of factors that...

Mar 13, 2023 Read

06 · Health system and policy

The Collaboration for the Establishment of an African Population Cohorts Consortium (CE-APCC)

Recent events including the Covid-19 syndemic 1 and climate change-related extreme weather crises have highlighted the role of scientific collaboration to understand and intervene in a global health emergency. Importantly, it has also brought into focus the complex interactions between the characteristics of a...

Feb 23, 2023 Read

06 · Health system and policy

Better data governance is starting point to improve Africa’s health

Africa’s health systems produce a huge amount of data that can be collected, combined, or used in different ways to solve the continent’s complex and interconnected health problems. A system like this could be used to rapidly produce knowledge that is based on evidence and helps us understand and deal with health...

Jan 15, 2023 Read

06 · Health system and policy

Partner Violence: How Society Can Play a Role in Ending the Problem

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread problem in Africa, and it has terrible effects on the authors who experience it. IPV is defined as any behaviour within an intimate relationship that causes physical, psychological, sexual, or economic harm to those involved. It includes physical violence, sexual...

Dec 27, 2022 Read

06 · Health system and policy

To meet the SDG on health, we must address poverty.

Poverty makes it hard to reach health-related sustainable development goals (SDGs), especially because it affects access to safe water and sanitation facilities, mental health, quality of life, and healthcare. Poverty also affects other social determinants of health such as education attainment, autonomy, and economic...

Dec 23, 2022 Read

06 · Health system and policy

We map the impact of poverty on a woman’s life course using the new CARTA Evidence platform. Research can help reverse the trend.

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to over half of the world’s extremely poor authors. Forecasts show that by the year 2030, nearly nine out of every ten authors living in extreme poverty in the world will call sub-Saharan Africa home . Children and women are especially at risk due to the high rates of poverty-related mortality...

Nov 26, 2022 Read

06 · Health system and policy

Africa’s Research Ecosystem Needs a Culture of Mentoring

Sub-Saharan Africa faces a range of development challenges, including high population growth , poverty , food insecurity , and poor health . There is a clear need for qualified and skilled researchers to tackle these issues. But there is also a scarcity. For instance, Sub-Saharan Africa contributes less than 1% to...

Mar 3, 2022 Read

06 · Health system and policy

Research-Intensive Universities in Africa? A Model of How to Build Them

Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 13·5% of the global population but less than 1% of global research output. In 2008, Africa produced 27 000 published papers – the same number as the Netherlands. There are some areas of improvement. A 2014 World Bank study showed that the quantity and quality of sub-Saharan Africa’s...

Feb 28, 2022 Read

06 · Health system and policy

What Can be Done to Better Supports Women Pursuing Their PHDs in Africa

A Doctor of Philosophy – commonly known as a PhD – is the highest level of academic training. It allows the degree holder to teach the chosen subject at university, conduct research or practise in the specialised area. However, in many African countries like Kenya there are gender gaps when it comes to women enrolling...

Feb 28, 2022 Read

06 · Health system and policy

Want to Solve Complex Health Issues? Train Scholars to Think Across Disciplines

In this complex world a number of factors affect both the distribution and prevalence of disease and the effectiveness of interventions to prevent or reduce disease. These factors are social, physical, environmental and historical. It follows, then, that challenges in public health require a multidisciplinary...

Feb 28, 2022 Read

06 · Health system and policy

African Health Research Needs Support: Here’s One Programme That’s Working

African countries bear a disproportionate burden of infectious and noncommunicable diseases. More than two thirds of authors living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa. It’s estimated that over 85% of deaths due to noncommunicable diseases are in low- and middle-income countries. To help solve these health problems,...

Feb 28, 2022 Read