Duane Blaauw

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ID3583222
NOMBREDuane Blaauw
NOMBRESDuane
APELLIDOBlaauw
FIRMABLAAUW D
AFILIACIONESUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0002-0605-7134
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS28
TOTAL DE CITAS14
TOTAL COMO AUTOR28
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2008
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H2

  • Preferences for Delivery of HIV Prevention Services Among Healthcare Users in South Africa

    Open AccessCatherine Martin, Catherine E Martin et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2024

    Progress has been made to scale oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as part of combination HIV prevention, with the WHO recommending differentiated, simplified and demedicalized approaches. This study explored user preferences for components of a PrEP service delivery package, through a discrete choice experiment (DCE) among 307 people accessing primary healthcare services in South Africa between November 2022 and February 2023. Attributes inclu…

  • Levels and determinants of overprescribing of antibiotics in the public and private primary care sectors in South Africa

    Open AccessMylene Lagarde, Duane BlaauwARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Although overprovision of antibiotics in primary care is a key driver of antibiotic resistance, little is known about its determinants in low-income and middle-income countries. Patient demand and financial incentives for providers are often held responsible for overprovision. Yet, inadequate provision exists in their absence and could be fuelled by quality of care issues and incorrect beliefs of providers regarding patients’ expectations. We exp…

  • Perspectives of the cohort of health professionals in the WiSDOM study on the learning environment, transformation, and social accountability at a South African University

    Open AccessLaetitia C Rispel, Prudence Ditlopo et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2023

    The results suggest the need to create inclusive learning environments that foreground redress, transformation, and social accountability, while advancing the discourse on decolonised health sciences education

  • Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard

    Open AccessMylene Lagarde, Duane BlaauwARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2022Referencias: 4

    Overtreatment is widespread in health, with potentially dire consequences for patients, health systems and public health. It may be fueled by providers when they do not bear the cost of treatment (moral hazard), even they do not profit financially from it (i.e. benevolent providers). We test this hypothesis by creating an exogeneous change in the incentives faced by private doctors in South Africa. We find that provider moral hazard has no effect…

  • Methodological considerations in establishing and maintaining longitudinal health workforce studies

    Open AccessLaetitia C Rispel, Prudence Ditlopo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    BACKGROUND: Health workforce cohort studies are uncommon in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially those in sub-Saharan Africa. OBJECTIVE: arket among its health professional graduates) health professional cohort study in South Africa. METHODS: WiSDOM is a prospective longitudinal cohort study that commenced in 2017. The cohort focuses on the eight professional groups of clinical associates, dentists, doctors, nurses, occupational th…

  • Acceptability and feasibility of inter-related activities to improve agency among African district health managers

    Open AccessSharon Fonn, Sunanda Ray et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2021

    District health managers (DHMs) lead and manage Ministry of Health programmes and system performance. We report on the acceptability and feasibility of inter-related activities to increase the agency of DHMs in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda using a cross-sectional rapid appraisal with 372 DHMs employing structured questionnaires. We found differences and similarities between the countries, in particular, who becomes a DHM. The opportuni…

  • Thank You to Reviewers 2019

    Open AccessMatilda Aberese-Ako, Gilbert Abiiro et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2020

  • ‘It needs a complete overhaul…’ district manager perspectives on the capacity of the health system to support the delivery of emergency obstetric care in an urban South African district

    Open AccessSiphiwe Bridget Pearl Thwala, Duane Blaauw et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

    Background: A high maternal mortality ratio persists in South Africa despite developments in emergency obstetric care (EmOC), a known effective intervention against direct causes of maternal deaths. Strengthening the health systems is one of the focus areas identified by the National Committee for Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in South Africa. District managers as immediate overseers of the frontline health system are uniquely posit…

  • Thank You to Reviewers 2017

    Open AccessMatilda Aberese-Ako, Gilbert Abotisem et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2018

  • Physicians’ responses to financial and social incentives

    Open AccessMylene Lagarde, Duane BlaauwARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2017Citada por: 7Referencias: 3

    Because compensation policies have critical implications for the provision of health care, and evidence of their effects is limited and difficult to study in the real world, laboratory experiments may be a valuable methodology to study the behavioural responses of health care providers. With this experiment undertaken in 2013, we add to this new literature by designing a new medically framed real effort task to test the effects of different remun…

  • Local and foreign authorship of maternal health interventional research in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessMatthew Chersich, Matthew F Chersich et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2016

    BACKGROUND: Researchers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are under-represented in scientific literature. Mapping of authorship of articles can provide an assessment of data ownership and research capacity in LMICs over time and identify variations between different settings. METHODS: Systematic mapping of maternal health interventional research in LMICs from 2000 to 2012, comparing country of study and of affiliation of first authors. …

  • Perspectives on the methods of a large systematic mapping of maternal health interventions

    Open AccessMatthew Chersich, Victor Becerril-Montekio et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2016

    BACKGROUND: Mapping studies describe a broad body of literature, and differ from classical systematic reviews, which assess more narrowly-defined questions and evaluate the quality of the studies included in the review. While the steps involved in mapping studies have been described previously, a detailed qualitative account of the methodology could inform the design of future mapping studies. OBJECTIVES: Describe the perspectives of a large rese…

  • Mapping of research on maternal health interventions in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessMatthew Chersich, Duane Blaauw et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2016

    BACKGROUND: Progress in achieving maternal health goals and the rates of reductions in deaths from individual conditions have varied over time and across countries. Assessing whether research priorities in maternal health align with the main causes of mortality, and those factors responsible for inequitable health outcomes, such as health system performance, may help direct future research. The study thus investigated whether the research done in…

  • The influence of health system organizational structure and culture on integration of health services

    Open AccessMary Kawonga, Duane Blaauw et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2016Citada por: 1Referencias: 19

    Administrative integration of disease control programmes (DCPs) within the district health system has been a health sector reform priority in South Africa for two decades. The reforms entail district managers assuming authority for the planning and monitoring of DCPs in districts, with DCP managers providing specialist support. There has been little progress in achieving this, and a dearth of research exploring why. Using a case study of HIV prog…

  • “I get hungry all the time”

    Open AccessF Scorgie, Duane Blaauw et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2015

    BACKGROUND: For pregnancy to result in a healthy mother and infant, women require adequate nutrition and to be able to access antenatal care, both of which require finances. While most women working in the formal sector in South Africa obtain some form of maternity leave, unemployed women receive no such support. Additional interventions in the form of expanded social assistance to vulnerable pregnant women are needed. To help inform such an appr…

  • The health system consequences of agency nursing and moonlighting in South Africa

    Open AccessLaetitia C Rispel, J Pojeta et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2015

    Although moonlighting did not emerge as a statistically significant predictor, the reported health system consequences are serious. A combination of strong nursing leadership, effective management, and consultation with and buy-in from front-line nurses is needed to counteract the potential negative health system consequences of agency nursing and moonlighting

  • Exploring the use of social network analysis to measure communication between disease programme and district managers at sub-national level in South Africa

    Open AccessMary Kawonga, Duane Blaauw et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2015Citada por: 4Referencias: 28

  • A systematic mapping of funders of maternal health intervention research 2000-2012

    Open AccessKaty Footman, Katharine Footman et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2014

    BACKGROUND: The priorities of research funding bodies govern the research agenda, which has important implications for the provision of evidence to inform policy. This study examines the research funding landscape for maternal health interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). METHODS: This review draws on a database of 2340 academic papers collected through a large-scale systematic mapping of research on maternal health interventi…

  • Contestations and complexities of nurses’ participation in policy-making in South Africa

    Open AccessPrudence Ditlopo, Duane Blaauw et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: There has been increased emphasis globally on nurses' involvement in health policy and systems development. However, there has been limited scholarly attention on nurses' participation in policy-making in South Africa. OBJECTIVE: This paper analyses the dynamics, strengths, and weaknesses of nurses' participation in four national health workforce policies: the 2008 Nursing Strategy, revision of the Scope of Practice for nurses, the ne…

  • Factors influencing agency nursing and moonlighting among nurses in South Africa

    Open AccessLaetitia C Rispel, Duane Blaauw et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: In South Africa, nurses are the largest category of the health care providers. Their optimal performance is critical for the successful implementation of impending health sector reforms. OBJECTIVE: This paper examines the occurrence of agency nursing, moonlighting, and overtime among nurses in South Africa, and the factors influencing moonlighting. DESIGN: This cross-sectional survey was a one-stage cluster random sample of 80 hospita…

  • Does moonlighting influence South African nurses’ intention to leave their primary jobs

    Open AccessLaetitia C Rispel, Tobias Chirwa et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: Staff retention and turnover have risen in prominence in the global discourse on the health workforce. Moonlighting, having a second job in addition to a primary job, has not featured in debates on turnover. OBJECTIVE: This paper examines whether moonlighting is a determinant of South African nurses' intention to leave their primary jobs. DESIGN: During 2010, a one-stage cluster random sample of 80 hospitals was selected in four South…

  • Nursing education reform in South Africa – lessons from a policy analysis study

    Open AccessDuane Blaauw, Prudence Ditlopo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2014

    BACKGROUND: Nursing education reform is identified as an important strategy for enhancing health workforce performance, and thereby improving the functioning of health systems. Globally, a predominant trend in such reform is towards greater professionalisation and university-based education. Related nursing education reform in South Africa culminated in a new Framework for Nursing Qualifications in 2013. OBJECTIVE: We undertook a policy analysis …

  • Policy implementation and financial incentives for nurses in South Africa

    Open AccessPrudence Ditlopo, Duane Blaauw et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2013

    BACKGROUND: In 2007, the South African government introduced the occupation-specific dispensation (OSD), a financial incentive strategy, to attract, motivate, and retain health professionals in the public sector. Implementation commenced with the nursing sector, but there have been unintended negative consequences. OBJECTIVE: First, to examine implementation of the OSD for nurses using Hogwood and Gunn's framework that outlines 'perfect implement…

  • Administrative integration of vertical HIV monitoring and evaluation into health systems

    Open AccessMary Kawonga, Sharon Fonn et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2013

    BACKGROUND: In light of an increasing global focus on health system strengthening and integration of vertical programmes within health systems, methods and tools are required to examine whether general health service managers exercise administrative authority over vertical programmes. OBJECTIVE: To measure the extent to which general health service (horizontal) managers, exercise authority over the HIV programme's monitoring and evaluation (M&E) …

  • Comparing the job satisfaction and intention to leave of different categories of health workers in Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa

    Open AccessDuane Blaauw, Prudence Ditlopo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2013

    BACKGROUND: Job satisfaction is an important determinant of health worker motivation, retention, and performance, all of which are critical to improving the functioning of health systems in low- and middle-income countries. A number of small-scale surveys have measured the job satisfaction and intention to leave of individual health worker cadres in different settings, but there are few multi-country and multi-cadre comparative studies. OBJECTIVE…