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  2. With increased globalization and interdependence among countries, sustained health worker migration and the complex threats of rapidly spreading infectious diseases, as well as changing lifestyles, a strong he...

    Authors: Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, Sharon Fonn, Osegbeaghe Okoye and Stephen Tollman
    Citation: Public Health Reviews 2010 32:BF03391604
    Content type: OriginalPaper Published on:

  3. To determine whether training community health workers (CHWs) about hypertension in order to improve adherence to medications is a cost-effective intervention among community members in South Africa.

    Authors: Thomas A Gaziano, Melanie Bertram, Stephen M Tollman and Karen J Hofman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:240
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. Authors: Lucia D’Ambruoso, Nana Akua Abruquah, Denny Mabetha, Maria van der Merwe, Gerhard Goosen, Jerry Sigudla and Sophie Witter
    Citation: Human Resources for Health 2023 21:78
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Human Resources for Health 2023 21:66

  6. In 2011 there were 5.5 million HIV infected people in South Africa and 71% of those requiring antiretroviral therapy (ART) received it. The effective integration of traditional medical practitioners and biomed...

    Authors: Paul Mee, Ryan G Wagner, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Kathleen Kahn, Sangeetha Madhavan, Mark Collinson, Peter Byass and Stephen M Tollman
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2014 14:504
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Authors: Lucia D’Ambruoso, Kathleen Kahn, Ryan G. Wagner, Rhian Twine, Barry Spies, Maria van der Merwe, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Stephen Tollman and Peter Byass
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2016 1:7
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in Global Health Research and Policy 2016 1:2

  8. In this article we describe a phenomenological lifeworld study based on the theory of communicative action of 13 women with noncommunicable disease (NCDs) in a rural area in South Africa. The purpose of the st...

    Authors: Daniel Lopes Ibanez-Gonzalez and Stephen M. Tollman
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:12
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) collect independent mortality data that could be used for assessing the quality of mortality data in national civil registration (CR) systems in low- and midd...

    Authors: Chodziwadziwa W Kabudula, Jan D Joubert, Maletela Tuoane-Nkhasi, Kathleen Kahn, Chalapati Rao, Francesc Xavier Gmez-Oliv, Paul Mee, Stephen Tollman, Alan D Lopez, Theo Vos and Debbie Bradshaw
    Citation: Population Health Metrics 2014 12:23
    Content type: Research Published on:

  10. Excess intake of sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been shown to result in weight gain. To address the growing epidemic of obesity, one option is to combine programmes that target individual behaviour chang...

    Authors: Maria A Cabrera Escobar, J Lennert Veerman, Stephen M Tollman, Melanie Y Bertram and Karen J Hofman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:1072
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Verbal autopsy (VA) has often been used for point estimates of cause-specific mortality, but seldom to characterize long-term changes in epidemic patterns. Monitoring emerging causes of death involves practiti...

    Authors: Peter Byass, Kathleen Kahn, Edward Fottrell, Paul Mee, Mark A Collinson and Stephen M Tollman
    Citation: Population Health Metrics 2011 9:46
    Content type: Research Published on:

  12. Computer-coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) methods to assign causes of death (CODs) for medically unattended deaths have been proposed as an alternative to physician-certified verbal autopsy (PCVA). We conducted a s...

    Authors: Jordana Leitao, Nikita Desai, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Peter Byass, Pierre Miasnikof, Stephen Tollman, Dewan Alam, Ying Lu, Suresh Kumar Rathi, Abhishek Singh, Wilson Suraweera, Faujdar Ram and Prabhat Jha
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:22
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Physician-coded verbal autopsy (PCVA) is the most widely used method to determine causes of death (CODs) in countries where medical certification of death is uncommon. Computer-coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) meth...

    Authors: Nikita Desai, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Pierre Miasnikof, Ying Lu, Jordana Leitao, Peter Byass, Stephen Tollman, Paul Mee, Dewan Alam, Suresh Kumar Rathi, Abhishek Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Faujdar Ram and Prabhat Jha
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:20
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) have been instrumental in advancing population and health research in low- and middle- income countries where vital registration systems are often weak. Howev...

    Authors: Chodziwadziwa W Kabudula, Benjamin D Clark, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Stephen Tollman, Jane Menken and Georges Reniers
    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2014 14:71
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals that aim to reduce malnutrition and child mortality depends in part on the ability of governments/policymakers to address nutritional status of children in general an...

    Authors: Elizabeth W Kimani-Murage, Shane A Norris, John M Pettifor, Stephen M Tollman, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Xavier F Gómez-Olivé, David B Dunger and Kathleen Kahn
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2011 11:23
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. South Africa (SA) is undergoing multiple transitions with an increasing burden of non-communicable diseases and high levels of overweight and obesity in adolescent girls and women. Adolescence is key to addres...

    Authors: Catherine E Draper, Lisa K Micklesfield, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen M Tollman, John M Pettifor, David B Dunger and Shane A Norris
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14(Suppl 2):S5
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 2

  17. In South Africa, human geographic mobility is high as people engage in both permanent and temporary relocation, predominantly from rural to urban areas. Such mobility can compromise healthcare access and utili...

    Authors: Carren Ginsburg, Mark A. Collinson, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Mark Gross, Sadson Harawa, Mark N. Lurie, Keith Mukondwa, Chantel F. Pheiffer, Stephen Tollman, Rebecca Wang and Michael J. White
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:554
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. South Africa has a high and rising prevalence of hypertension. Many affected individuals are not using medication, and few have controlled blood pressure. Until recently, primary care clinics focused on matern...

    Authors: Margaret Thorogood, Jane Goudge, Melanie Bertram, Tobias Chirwa, Sandra Eldridge, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Felix Limbani, Eustasius Musenge, Nokuzola Myakayaka, Stephen Tollman and Rhian Twine
    Citation: Trials 2014 15:435
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  19. Youth-friendly health services are a key strategy for improving young people’s health. This is the first study investigating provision of the Youth Friendly Services programme in South Africa since the nationa...

    Authors: Rebecca Sally Geary, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman and Shane Anthony Norris
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2014 14:259
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Infant mortality is an important indicator of population health in a country. It is associated with several health determinants, such as maternal health, access to high-quality health care, socioeconomic condi...

    Authors: Benn KD Sartorius, Kathleen Kahn, Penelope Vounatsou, Mark A Collinson and Stephen M Tollman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2010 10:645
    Content type: Research article Published on: