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Disrespect and abuse of women in childbirth: challenging the global quality and accountability agendas by Freedman, Lynn P, Kruk, Margaret E

“…At the most fundamental level, a health system that tolerates D&A devalues women, which itself is an underlying cause of slow progress on reduction of maternal…”
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Association between infrastructure and observed quality of care in 4 healthcare services: A cross-sectional study of 4,300 facilities in 8 countries by Leslie, Hannah H, Sun, Zeye, Kruk, Margaret E

“…It is increasingly apparent that access to healthcare without adequate quality of care is insufficient to improve population health outcomes. We assess whether…”
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Hospital delivery and neonatal mortality in 37 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: An ecological study by Gage, Anna D, Fink, Günther, Ataguba, John E, Kruk, Margaret E

“…Widespread increases in facility delivery have not substantially reduced neonatal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia over the past 2 decades. This…”
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Mortality due to low-quality health systems in the universal health coverage era: a systematic analysis of amenable deaths in 137 countries by Kruk, Margaret E, Gage, Anna D, Joseph, Naima T, Danaei, Goodarz, García-Saisó, Sebastián, Salomon, Joshua A

“…Universal health coverage has been proposed as a strategy to improve health in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, this is contingent on…”
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What is a resilient health system? Lessons from Ebola by Kruk, Margaret E, Dr, Myers, Michael, MA, Varpilah, S Tornorlah, MA, Dahn, Bernice T, MD

“…This Viewpoint puts forth a proposed framework for resilient health systems and the characteristics that define them, informed by insights from other fields…”
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NCD Countdown 2030: pathways to achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4 by Bennett, James E, Kontis, Vasilis, Mathers, Colin D, Guillot, Michel, Rehm, Jürgen, Chalkidou, Kalipso, Kengne, Andre P, Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M, Bawah, Ayaga A, Dain, Katie, Varghese, Cherian, Riley, Leanne M, Bonita, Ruth, Kruk, Margaret E, Beaglehole, Robert, Ezzati, Majid

“…The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.4 is to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by a third by 2030 relative to 2015…”
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NCD Countdown 2030: worldwide trends in non-communicable disease mortality and progress towards Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4 by Bennett, James E, Stevens, Gretchen A, Mathers, Colin D, Bonita, Ruth, Rehm, Jürgen, Kruk, Margaret E, Riley, Leanne M, Dain, Katie, Kengne, Andre P, Chalkidou, Kalipso, Beagley, Jessica, Kishore, Sandeep P, Chen, Wanqing, Saxena, Shekhar, Bettcher, Douglas W, Grove, John T, Beaglehole, Robert, Ezzati, Majid

“…The third UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) on Sept 27, 2018, will review national and global progress towards the prevention and…”
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Disrespectful and abusive treatment during facility delivery in Tanzania: a facility and community survey by Kruk, Margaret E, Kujawski, Stephanie, Mbaruku, Godfrey, Ramsey, Kate, Moyo, Wema, Freedman, Lynn P

“…Although qualitative studies have raised attention to humiliating treatment of women during labour and delivery, there are no reliable estimates of the…”
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Implementation research on noncommunicable disease prevention and control interventions in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review by Hategeka, Celestin, Adu, Prince, Desloge, Allissa, Marten, Robert, Shao, Ruitai, Tian, Maoyi, Wei, Ting, Kruk, Margaret E

“…While the evidence for the clinical effectiveness of most noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevention and treatment interventions is well established, care…”
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Seizing the moment to rethink health systems by Nimako, Kojo, Kruk, Margaret E

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has made vivid the need for resilient, high-quality health systems and presents an opportunity to reconsider how to build such systems…”
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Variation in quality of primary-care services in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania by Kruk, Margaret E, Chukwuma, Adanna, Mbaruku, Godfrey, Leslie, Hannah H

“…To analyse factors affecting variations in the observed quality of antenatal and sick-child care in primary-care facilities in seven African countries. We…”
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Implementation science: Relevance in the real world without sacrificing rigor by Geng, Elvin H, Peiris, David, Kruk, Margaret E

“…Three members of PLOS Medicine's editorial board who are leading researchers in implementation science define the characteristics of high-quality studies and…”
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Borrowing And Selling To Pay For Health Care In Low- And Middle-Income Countries by Kruk, Margaret E, Goldmann, Emily, Galea, Sandro

“…Many families around the world make sizable out-of-pocket payments for health care. We calculated the frequency of borrowing money or selling assets to buy…”
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Defining disrespect and abuse of women in childbirth: a research, policy and rights agenda by Freedman, Lynn P, Ramsey, Kate, Abuya, Timothy, Bellows, Ben, Ndwiga, Charity, Warren, Charlotte E, Kujawski, Stephanie, Moyo, Wema, Kruk, Margaret E, Mbaruku, Godfrey

“…In the field of maternal and newborn health, there have been calls to prioritize the intra-partum period and promote facility delivery to meet maternal and…”
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Poor Quality for Poor Women? Inequities in the Quality of Antenatal and Delivery Care in Kenya by Sharma, Jigyasa, Leslie, Hannah H, Kundu, Francis, Kruk, Margaret E

“…Quality of healthcare is an important determinant of future progress in global health. However, the distributional aspects of quality of care have received…”
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Introducing The Lancet Global Health Commission on High-Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era by Kruk, Margaret E, Pate, Muhammad, Mullan, Zoë

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Equity in antenatal care quality: an analysis of 91 national household surveys by Arsenault, Catherine, Jordan, Keely, Lee, Dennis, Dinsa, Girmaye, Manzi, Fatuma, Marchant, Tanya, Kruk, Margaret E

“…Emerging data show that many low-income and middle-income country (LMIC) health systems struggle to consistently provide good-quality care. Although monitoring…”
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Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation by Jamison, Dean T, Prof, Summers, Lawrence H, Prof, Alleyne, George, Prof, Arrow, Kenneth J, Prof, Berkley, Seth, MD, Binagwaho, Agnes, MD [Ped], Bustreo, Flavia, MD, Evans, David, PhD, Feachem, Richard G A, Prof, Frenk, Julio, Prof, Ghosh, Gargee, MSc, Goldie, Sue J, Prof, Guo, Yan, Prof, Gupta, Sanjeev, PhD, Horton, Richard, FMedSci, Kruk, Margaret E, MD, Mahmoud, Adel, Prof, Mohohlo, Linah K, MSc, Ncube, Mthuli, Prof, Pablos-Mendez, Ariel, MD, Reddy, K Srinath, Prof, Saxenian, Helen, PhD, Soucat, Agnes, MD, Ulltveit-Moe, Karen H, Prof, Yamey, Gavin, Dr

“…The international community can best support countries to implement progressive universal health coverage by financing population, policy, and implementation…”
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Bypassing primary care clinics for childbirth: a cross-sectional study in the Pwani region, United Republic of Tanzania by KRUK, Margaret E, HERMOSILLA, Sabrina, LARSON, Elysia, MBARUKU, Godfrey M

“…To measure the extent, determinants and results of bypassing local primary care clinics for childbirth among women in rural parts of the United Republic of…”
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Quality of basic maternal care functions in health facilities of five African countries: an analysis of national health system surveys by Kruk, Margaret E, Dr, Leslie, Hannah H, PhD, Verguet, Stéphane, PhD, Mbaruku, Godfrey M, MD, Adanu, Richard M K, MBChB, Langer, Ana, MD

“…Summary Background Global efforts to increase births at health-care facilities might not reduce maternal or newborn mortality if quality of care is…”
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