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Shabir Moosa

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shabir moosa

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[HTML][HTML] Human resources for primary health care in sub-Saharan Africa: progress or stagnation?

ML Willcox, W Peersman, P Daou, C Diakité… - Human resources for …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background The World Health Organization defines a “critical shortage” of health
workers as being fewer than 2.28 health workers per 1000 population and failing to attain …

Security and skills: the two key issues in health worker migration

P Bidwell, P Laxmikanth, C Blacklock… - Global health …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Background Migration of health workers from Africa continues to undermine the universal
provision of quality health care. South Africa is an epicentre for migration–it exports more …

Federated uncertainty-aware learning for distributed hospital ehr data

S Boughorbel, F Jarray, N Venugopal, S Moosa… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Recent works have shown that applying Machine Learning to Electronic Health Records
(EHR) can strongly accelerate precision medicine. This requires developing models based …

Why sub-Saharan African health workers migrate to European countries that do not actively recruit: a qualitative study post-migration

A Poppe, E Jirovsky, C Blacklock, P Laxmikanth… - Global health …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Background Many studies have investigated the migration intentions of sub-Saharan African
medical students and health professionals within the context of a legacy of active …

[HTML][HTML] Insights of health district managers on the implementation of primary health care outreach teams in Johannesburg, South Africa: a descriptive study with focus …

S Moosa, A Derese, W Peersman - Human resources for health, 2017 - Springer
Background Primary health care (PHC) outreach teams are part of a policy of PHC re-
engineering in South Africa. It attempts to move the deployment of community health workers …

[HTML][HTML] Universal health coverage and primary health care: the 30 by 2030 campaign

J De Maeseneer, D Li, B Palsdottir, B Mash… - Bulletin of the World …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Jan De Maeseneer et al. 796 alumni from a medical school in Uganda found an influence of
the PEPFAR projects on career choices of health professionals, with almost half working for …

Understanding of family medicine in Africa: a qualitative study of leaders' views

S Moosa, R Downing, B Mash, S Reid, S Pentz… - British Journal of …, 2013 - bjgp.org
Background The World Health Organization encourages comprehensive primary care within
an ongoing personalised relationship, including family physicians in the primary healthcare …

Primary health care in a changing world

J De Maeseneer, S Moosa, Y Pongsupap… - British Journal of General …, 2008 - bjgp.org
Twelve characteristics10 define primary health care: it is general in scope, accessible,
integrated (including health promotion, disease prevention, cure and care, rehabilitation and …

[HTML][HTML] Provider perspectives on financing primary health care for universal health coverage

S Moosa - The Lancet Global Health, 2022 - thelancet.com
Health is seen as complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing, with good quality primary
health care (PHC) characterised as first-contact care that is comprehensive, continuous, and …

The inverse primary care law in sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative study of the views of migrant health workers

S Moosa, S Wojczewski, K Hoffmann, A Poppe… - British Journal of …, 2014 - bjgp.org
Background Many low-income and middle-income countries globally are now pursuing
ambitious plans for universal primary care, but are failing to deliver adequate care quality …