Rohina Joshi

Datos Biográficos

ID3927756
NOMBRERohina Joshi
NOMBRESRohina
APELLIDOJoshi
FIRMAJOSHI R
AFILIACIONESUNSW Sydney
ORCID0000-0002-3374-401X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS41
TOTAL DE CITAS3
TOTAL COMO AUTOR40
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2007
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Use of digital health in task-sharing for prevention and management of non-communicable diseases in Africa

    Open AccessNongiwe L Mhlanga, Sikhumbuzo A Mabunda et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Task-sharing with non-physician health workers (NPHWs), supported by digital health, has emerged as a critical strategy to address workforce shortage and improve the delivery of health services. The use of digital health shows promise in supporting task-sharing for the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) elsewhere; however, the evidence from Africa remains limited. This study aims to review the use of digital health in t…

  • Association of depression with glycaemic control in people living with diabetes in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessKim A Nguyen, Mercian Daniel et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

  • Exploring the implementation of community health worker program in Fiji

    Open AccessAzeb Gebresilassie Tesema, Bindu Patel et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    In Fiji, community health workers (CHWs) play a critical role in providing primary health care, especially in remote and hard-to-reach areas. This study aims to comprehensively explore the implementation of the CHW program and identify policy-implementation gaps that will strengthen the country’s primary health care. We conducted a qualitative exploratory study in Fiji’s six sub-divisions across the four administrative divisions—Central, Eastern,…

  • Task-sharing for non-communicable disease prevention and control in low- and middle-income countries in the context of health worker shortages

    Open AccessAzeb Gebresilassie Tesema, Sikhumbuzo A Mabunda et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Health workers are pivotal for non-communicable disease (NCD) service delivery, yet often are unavailable in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is limited evidence on what NCD-related tasks non-physician health workers (NPHWs) can perform and their effectiveness. This study aims to understand how task-sharing is used to improve NCD prevention and control in LMICs. We also explored barriers, facilitators, and unexpected consequences o…

  • Understanding implementation, adoption, and acceptability of the WHO package of essential noncommunicable (PEN) disease interventions in Fiji

    Open AccessBindu Patel, Devina Nand et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    The Package of Essential Noncommunicable (PEN) disease interventions in response to the high prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes was implemented in Fiji commencing in 2012. This study aimed to understand implementation outcomes, and its contextual influences. Semi-structured interviews with health workers and patients across Fiji was conducted. Thematic analysis was mapped to the health system building blocks to understand PEN serv…

  • The implementation of the Workforce Indicators of Staffing Needs (Wisn) method to improve access to health workforce in selected South-East Asian countries

    Open AccessSikhumbuzo A Mabunda, Mona Gupta et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    The Workload Indicators of Staffing Needs (WISN) is a tool used to estimate health workforce requirements for national or sub-national regions and health facilities. We determined the implementation of WISN for six countries in the World Health Organization South-East Asia Region (WHO-SEAR). This research ascertained whether WISN’s recommendations were adopted and operationalised after the initial assessment. This will then help policymakers iden…

  • Cervical cancer prevention and control in Nigeria

    Open AccessElvis Anyaehiechukwu Okolie, Kristen Beek et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025

    Cervical cancer is a significant public health issue in Nigeria and a major cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality among women. Equitable implementation of cervical cancer control programs alongside relevant policies and strategic plans is vital to reducing the burden of cervical cancer and improving the quality of life. Considering the role of policies in guiding program implementation, we reviewed Nigeria's cervical cancer policy lands…

  • Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022

    Open AccessNowell H Phelps, Rosie Singleton et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…

  • Investing in health workers

    Open AccessSikhumbuzo A Mabunda, Andrea Durbach et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: Return-of-service (RoS) schemes are investment strategies that governments use to increase the pool of health professionals through the issuing of bursaries and scholarships to health sciences students in return for service after graduation. Despite using these schemes for many years, Eswatini, South Africa, Botswana and Lesotho have not assessed the costs and return on investment of these schemes. This study aimed to assess the costs…

  • Strengthening policy engagement when scaling up interventions targeting non-communicable diseases

    Open AccessAnusha Ramani-Chander, Amanda G Thrift et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2024

    Policy engagement is an essential component of implementation research for scaling up interventions targeting non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It refers to the many ways that research team members, implementers and policymakers, who represent government decision-making, connect and interact to explore common interests. Well-conducted engagement activities foster co-production, local contextualization and assist in the successful translation of r…

  • “We just have to help”

    Open AccessWhenayon Simeon Ajisegiri, Seye Abimbola et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Introduction: Nigeria's skilled health professional health workforce density is insufficient to achieve its national targets for non-communicable diseases (NCD) which include 25% reduction in the prevalence of diabetes and hypertension, particularly at the primary health care (PHC) level. This places a great demand on community health workers (CHWs) who constitute the majority of PHC workers. Traditionally, CHWs are mainly involved in infectious …

  • “We're on the ground, we know what needs to be done”

    Open AccessRagavi Jeyakumar, Bindu Patel et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: Aboriginal Health Workers (AHWs) are core providers of primary health care (PHC) for First Nations peoples in Australia. However, the national AHW workforce is aging and in short supply. There is a poor understanding of the factors contributing to this attrition from the perspectives of AHWs themselves. This study aimed to systematically explore the current functioning and sustainability of AHWs in NSW PHC by amplifying AHW voices. Ma…

  • Effectiveness of return-of-service schemes for human resources for health retention

    Open AccessSikhumbuzo A Mabunda, Andrea Durbach et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    BACKGROUND: Governments use return-of-service (RoS) schemes to train, employ and retain health professionals in the public sector. We determined the effectiveness of RoS schemes in four Southern African countries. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study used databases of RoS beneficiaries from South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini and Lesotho. We ascertained the period of funding for beneficiaries between 2000 and 2010, study programme, selection cri…

  • Prioritising and planning scale-up research projects targeting non-communicable diseases

    Open AccessAnusha Ramani-Chander, 엄한천 엄한천 et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Fundamental to NCD scale-up research are (1) funding opportunities that reflect the complexity and time necessary to enable contextualisation; (2) investment in building multidisciplinary research capacity and leadership and (3) better networking to encourage cohesive action and align NCD-related scale-up research activities globally

  • Scope of health worker migration governance and its impact on emigration intentions among skilled health workers in Nigeria

    Open AccessKenneth Yakubu, Janani Shanthosh et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The growing trends for skilled health worker (SHW) migration in Nigeria has led to increased concerns about achieving universal health coverage in the country. While a lot is known about drivers of SHW migration, including national/sub-national government’s inability to address them, not enough is known about its governance. Underpinning good governance systems is a commitment to human rights norms, that is, principles that enshrine non-discrimin…

  • Assessing the Diagnostic Accuracy of Physicians for Home Death Certification in Shanghai

    Open AccessLei Chen, Tian Xia et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Approximately 30% of deaths in Shanghai either occur at home or are not medically attended. The recorded cause of death (COD) in these cases may not be reliable. We applied the Smart Verbal Autopsy (VA) tool to assign the COD for a representative sample of home deaths certified by 16 community health centers (CHCs) from three districts in Shanghai, from December 2017 to June 2018. The results were compared with diagnoses from routine practice to …

  • Integrated Management of Diabetes and Tuberculosis in Rural India – Results From a Pilot Study

    Open AccessRohina Joshi, Deepanjali Behera et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Introduction: The World Health Organization and International Union against Tuberculosis (TB) recommends screening patients with TB for Diabetes Mellitus (DM) at the initiation of treatment. There are few pilot studies which screen TB patients for DM, but none of them have documented the feasibility of managing TB patients with DM in the Indian healthcare setting. Operational research is needed to determine the best way to manage individuals with…

  • It is not all about salary

    Open AccessWhenayon Simeon Ajisegiri, David P Peiris et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: Community health workers (CHWs) constitute the majority of primary healthcare (PHC) workers in Nigeria, yet little is understood about their motivations or the most effective interventions to meet their needs to ensure quality health coverage across the country. We aimed to identify factors that would motivate CHWs for quality service delivery. METHODS: A discrete-choice experiment was conducted among 300 CHWs across 44 PHC faciliti…

  • Exploring complementary and competitive relations between non-communicable disease services and other health extension programme services in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAzeb Gebresilassie Tesema, David P Peiris et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: Ethiopia has recently revitalised its health extension programme (HEP) to address the rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). We examined the effects of existing essential HEP services on the uptake of NCD preventive services. METHODS: We applied a mixed-effect non-linear model with a logit link function to identify factors associated with a community resident's probability of receiving NCD prevention services through the H…

  • Community health extension workers’ training and supervision in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAzeb Gebresilassie Tesema, David P Peiris et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Training and supervision of health workers are critical components of any health system;thus, we assessed how they impact health extension workers’ (HEWs) role in non-communicable disease (NCD) service delivery in Ethiopia’s health extension program (HEP), using an in-depth qualitative study conducted in 2019.The study covered two regions—the Tigray and the South Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR)—and involved the Federal Ministry …

  • Are return-of-service bursaries an effective investment to build health workforce capacity? A qualitative study of key South African policymakers

    Open AccessSikhumbuzo A Mabunda, Andrea Durbach et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Return-of-service schemes (RoS) or bursaries are used in South Africa and other nations to publicly fund the training of skilled health professionals in return for the beneficiary agreeing to return to serve in their local provinces on a year-for-year basis. This study aimed to understand insights of key policymakers in South African provinces to identify barriers and solutions to implementation of RoS schemes used to recruit and retain skilled h…

  • Improving the efficiency of scale-up and deployment of community health workers in Mali

    Open AccessNicholas P Oliphant, Zeynabou Sy et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Optimising the scale and deployment of community health workers (CHWs) is important for maximizing geographical accessibility of integrated primary health care (PHC) services. Yet little is known about approaches for doing so. We used geospatial analysis to model optimised scale-up and deployment of CHWs in Mali, to inform strategic and operational planning by the Ministry of Health and Social Development. Accessibility catchments were modelled b…

  • The organisation of primary health care service delivery for non-communicable diseases in Nigeria

    Open AccessWhenayon Simeon Ajisegiri, Seye Abimbola et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    As chronic diseases, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) require sustained person-centred and community-based care. Given its direct link to communities and households, Primary Health Care (PHC) is well positioned to achieve such care. In Nigeria, the national government has prioritized PHC system strengthening as a means of achieving national NCD targets. However, strengthening PHC systems for NCDs require re-organization of PHC service delivery, b…

  • Governance systems for skilled health worker migration, their public value and competing priorities

    Open AccessKenneth Yakubu, Andrea Durbach et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    BACKGROUND: Governments worldwide participate in skilled health worker (SHW) migration agreements to protect access to health services in their countries. Previous studies have described the value offered by these agreements in separate source and destination country perspectives. OBJECTIVE: We sought to identify and summarise existing literature on shared value creation for both source and destination countries. METHOD: We conducted a systematic…

  • Are there sex differences in completeness of death registration and quality of cause of death statistics? Results from a global analysis

    Open AccessTim Adair, L Marambat et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    Although in most countries analysed there was no clear bias against females in death registration, there was clear evidence in a few countries of systematic undercounting of female deaths which substantially reduces the utility of mortality data. In countries with cause of death data, it was only of marginally poorer quality for females than males