Abdul Ghaffar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5436811 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Abdul Ghaffar |
| NOMBRES | Abdul |
| APELLIDO | Ghaffar |
| FIRMA | GHAFFAR A |
| AFILIACIONES | World Health Organization |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5994-8440 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Bringing legislation to life
The Sindh Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Act 2018 (SEPD Act) mandates inclusive health services for persons with disabilities. This study examines the challenges faced in implementing the disability Act’s health-related provisions, with a focus on children with disabilities in Sindh, Pakistan. A qualitative exploratory study was conducted in four districts of Sindh province. A total of 40 key informant interviews were undertaken with go…
The Naqshbandi Order and the Internalization of Sharia Values
This study examines the internalization of Sharia values within secular Turkish society through the maqāṣid al-sharī'ah framework. It focuses specifically on the Naqshbandi Sufi order, one of the most influential Sufi movements in contemporary Turkey. The research is based on qualitative data collected from 12 participants, consisting of Naqshbandi sheikhs, senior disciples, community educators, and active members in Istanbul, Ankara, and Konya. …
Lear’s Journey from King to Man
The current article aims to explore how King Lear, the tragic protagonist of the play, undergoes transformation through the process of renunciation and suffering which play pivotal role in his journey from king to man. Shakespeare has depicted the depth of human nature in King Lear through the variety of characters caught up in intense human emotions. It is because of intense emotions that Lear behaves like a dictator, disinherits his daughter Co…
Jokha Alharthi’s Bitter Orange Tree
This study investigates cultural shift and transformation in Omani culture in Jokha Alharthi’s novel Bitter Orange Tree (2022). It traces how the discovery of oil and subsequent modernization changed the social fiber of Omani culture and how these socio-political and historical conditions played a crucial role in shaping the character’s identities. While applying Homi K Bhabha’s concepts of hybridity and identity, the researcher analyzes how the …
Unveiling mechanism of SNSs addiction on wellbeing
Social networking sites (SNSs) play a crucial role in the lives of online users. This research aims to investigate the underlying mechanisms of SNS addiction and its subsequent impact on the wellbeing of online users. Employing the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) model, we examine the influence of perceived enjoyment, utilitarian needs, and social influence on SNSs addiction and its associated consequences. Additionally, we consider the boundary…
Energy security as a crucial component of health infrastructure
Energy security, defined as the availability of reliable, clean, and sustainable energy necessary to ensure the continuous operation of health-care facilities, is essential for delivering safe and effective health care. Yet, it is rarely measured, financed, or governed as a component of core health infrastructure. Evidence from nearly a thousand hospitals shows that power outages were common, especially in lower-income settings, disrupting surger…
Health systems strengthening through surgical and perioperative care pathways
Global health has traditionally focused on the primary health development with disease-specific focus such as HIV, malaria and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). As such, surgery has traditionally been neglected in global health as investment in them is often expensive, relative to these other priorities. Therefore, efforts to improve surgical care have remained on the periphery of initiatives in health system strengthening. However, today, many w…
Environmentally sustainable surgical systems
Surgeons, anaesthetists, wider surgical teams and hospital managers are a large global group that has the capacity and power to play a leadership role to contribute to change. Hospitals are a good target for improvement since they are centres of communities, linking together surrounding healthcare facilities and influencing wider determinants of the environment. District and rural hospitals are good sites to start since they serve large populatio…
Strengthening health systems through surgery
Shaping Brand Loyalty through Social Media Influencers
This study explores the relationship between social media influencers (SMIs) and followers’ engagement, social attractiveness, and establishing brand loyalty. The study seeks to redefine current theoretical frameworks and provide practical insights for marketers by investigating the mediating role of followers’ engagement (FE) and social attractiveness (SA) and the moderating influence of parasocial interactions. The present study utilized a quan…
Consequences of TV morning show consumption among female muslim millennials in Pakistan during Covid-19
Deciphering the future of electric vehicles amid emissions and adoption drivers
Using health policy and systems research to influence national health policies
Health system reforms across Africa, Asia and Latin America in recent decades demonstrate the value of health policy and systems research (HPSR) in moving towards the goals of universal health coverage in different circumstances and by various means. The role of evidence in policy making is widely accepted; less well understood is the influence of the concrete conditions under which HPSR is carried out within the national context and which often …
Global financing for health policy and systems research
Health policy and systems research (HPSR) is a neglected area in global health financing. Despite repeated calls for greater investment, it seems that there has been little growth. We analysed trends in reported funding and activity between 2015 and 2021 using a novel real-time source of global health data, the Devex.com database, the world’s largest source of funding opportunities related to international development. We performed a systematic s…
The use of Android Applications as an Effort to Implement Islamic Education to Overcome Family Disharmony
The purpose of this study was first to determine the development of an application for early detection of non-medical diseases with the Quran system in the Tumpang Talun Blitar community. Second, knowing the application of non-medical detection applications with the Qur'ani system in cases of household disharmony. This type of research is a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach. Data analysis techniques: data collection stage, data r…
Health is a bridge for peace
Objective To study the relation between rainfall and outpatient visits for joint or back pain in a large patient population. Design Observational study. Setting US Medicare insurance claims data linked to rainfall data from US weather stations. Participants 1 552 842 adults aged ≥65 years attending a total of 11 673 392 outpatient visits with a general internist during 2008-12. Main outcome measures The proportion of outpatient visits for joint o…
Covid-19 pandemic response in one of the world’s most complex and vulnerable settings
Impact of community education on heat-related health outcomes and heat literacy among low-income communities in Karachi, Pakistan
BACKGROUND: Extreme heat exposure is a growing public health concern. In this trial, we tested the impact of a community health worker (CHW) led heat education programme on all-cause mortality, unplanned hospital visits and changes in knowledge and practices in Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS: The Heat Emergency Awareness and Treatment trial was a community-based, open-label, two-group, unblinded cluster-randomised controlled trial that implemented a …
Learning from Covid-19 to prevent and prepare for pandemics in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Health for peace
Learning is a means to progress and empowerment for health systems
The Analysis of Conversational Implicature Between Students and Teachers at Al-Azhar Islamic Boarding School
Pesantren is an environment that is very well known as religiousness in which there are several rules that must be obeyed by teachers and students. The purpose of this discipline is to build humanist relationships. This study aims to uncover and describe the meanings and types of conversational implicatures contained in the conversations of teachers and students at the Salafiyah Syafi'iyah Al-Azhar Islamic boarding school. This study uses data an…
Donor support for Health Policy and Systems Research
BACKGROUND: The vast investments that have been made in recent decades in new medicines, vaccines, and technologies will only lead to improvements in health if there are appropriate and well-functioning health systems to make use of them. However, despite the growing acceptance by major global donors of the importance of health systems, there is an enthusiasm gap when it comes to disbursing funds needed to understand the intricacies of how, why a…
Harnessing the peace dividends of health
Building peace is usually considered the job and domain of diplomats. Health, however, is also a bridge to peace, and policymakers have identified the multifaceted linkages between health and peace.1 While conflict and violence affect physical and mental health, damaging health systems and other determinants of health, peace is also a critical prerequisite for health and well-being.2 The drivers of conflicts are often health related, and health c…
Public health education post-Covid-19
This article was published in the BMJ Global Health by BMJ Journals [© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/] and the definite version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005669 The Journal's website is at: https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/4/e005669
Access to medicines from a health system perspective
Most health system strengthening interventions ignore interconnections between systems components. In particular, complex relationships between medicines and health financing, human resources, health information and service delivery are not given sufficient consideration. As a consequence, populations' access to medicines (ATM) is addressed mainly through fragmented, often vertical approaches usually focusing on supply, unrelated to the wider iss…
National policy-makers speak out
The objective of this empirical study was to understand the perspectives and attitudes of policy-makers towards the use and impact of research in the health sector in low- and middle-income countries. The study used data from 83 semi-structured, in-depth interviews conducted with purposively selected policy-makers at the national level in Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Malawi, Oman and Singapore. The interviews were structured around an interview guide …
Restoring the agricultural landscape
Implementation research is crucial to countries’ efforts to strengthen learning health systems
Dynamics of evidence-informed health policy making in Pakistan
Incorporating evidence is fundamental to maintaining the general acceptance and efficiency in public policies. In Pakistan, different actors-local and global-strive to facilitate the development of evidence-informed health policies. Effective involvement however, requires knowledge of the country-context, i.e. knowing the intricacies of how policies are formulated in Pakistan. Obtaining this knowledge is one of the key steps to making interventio…
Strengthening capacity to apply health research evidence in policy making
Increasing the use of evidence in policy making means strengthening capacity on both the supply and demand sides of evidence production. However, little experience of strengthening the capacity of policy makers in low- and middle- income countries has been published to date. We describe the experiences of five projects (in Bangladesh, Gambia, India and Nigeria), where collaborative teams of researchers and policy makers/policy influencers worked …
Injuries in Pakistan
Injuries result in major financial and productivity losses to nations while inflicting tremendous personal burden on the injured and their families. Two-thirds of the global deaths from injuries occur in the developing world, consuming substantial health sector resources. Pakistan is a developing country with a population of 136 million and no reported estimate of the national impact of injuries. This study presents a profile of injuries in Pakis…
Restoring the agricultural landscape
Injuries in Pakistan
Injuries result in major financial and productivity losses to nations while inflicting tremendous personal burden on the injured and their families. Two-thirds of the global deaths from injuries occur in the developing world, consuming substantial health sector resources. Pakistan is a developing country with a population of 136 million and no reported estimate of the national impact of injuries. This study presents a profile of injuries in Pakis…
Newspaper reports as a source for injury data in developing countries
Injuries are an important public health problem and a leading cause of death among adults and children. In most of the developing world, with rapid changes in lifestyle, rural development, urbanization, an increase in number of vehicles, introduction of mechanized farming and pesticides in agriculture, the effect of injuries on mortality and morbidity is expected to increase. Injuries have been infrequently studied in developing countries; their …
Estrategias para aumentar el impacto de la investigación sobre recursos humanos para la salud en la elaboración de politicas
Despite global recognition of the importance of human resources for health (HRH) in achieving health system goals, very little is known about what works, for whom and under what circumstances, especially for low-income and middle-income countries. Several important events and reports have called for increased funding and capacity for HRH research in recent years and several initiatives have started as a result. Progress has been slow, however. Th…
Estrategias para aumentar el impacto de la investigación sobre recursos humanos para la salud en la elaboración de políticas
A pesar del reconocimiento mundial de la importancia de los recursos humanos para la salud (RHS) en el logro de objetivos de los sistemas de salud, muy poco se sabe sobre que intervenciones realmente funciona, para quién y en qué circunstancias, especialmente para los países de ingreso bajo y mediano. Varios eventos importantes e informes técnicos han pedido mayor financiación y capacidad para la investigación de los RHS en los últimos años y com…
National policy-makers speak out
The objective of this empirical study was to understand the perspectives and attitudes of policy-makers towards the use and impact of research in the health sector in low- and middle-income countries. The study used data from 83 semi-structured, in-depth interviews conducted with purposively selected policy-makers at the national level in Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Malawi, Oman and Singapore. The interviews were structured around an interview guide …
Access to medicines from a health system perspective
Most health system strengthening interventions ignore interconnections between systems components. In particular, complex relationships between medicines and health financing, human resources, health information and service delivery are not given sufficient consideration. As a consequence, populations' access to medicines (ATM) is addressed mainly through fragmented, often vertical approaches usually focusing on supply, unrelated to the wider iss…
Strengthening capacity to apply health research evidence in policy making
Increasing the use of evidence in policy making means strengthening capacity on both the supply and demand sides of evidence production. However, little experience of strengthening the capacity of policy makers in low- and middle- income countries has been published to date. We describe the experiences of five projects (in Bangladesh, Gambia, India and Nigeria), where collaborative teams of researchers and policy makers/policy influencers worked …
Embedding research in health policy and systems in the Americas
As countries develop and improve universal health coverage schemes globally, there is increasing recognition that health policymaking and health system strengthening need to be informed by robust research evidence (1, 2). In Latin America and the Caribbean, emerging and complex health challenges require actionable and context-sensitive evidence to improve the responsiveness of health systems (3). This movement towards evidence-informed policymaki…
Dynamics of evidence-informed health policy making in Pakistan
Incorporating evidence is fundamental to maintaining the general acceptance and efficiency in public policies. In Pakistan, different actors-local and global-strive to facilitate the development of evidence-informed health policies. Effective involvement however, requires knowledge of the country-context, i.e. knowing the intricacies of how policies are formulated in Pakistan. Obtaining this knowledge is one of the key steps to making interventio…
Health for all by all-pursuing multi-sectoral action on health for SDGs in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
The WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region is endowed with deep intellectual tradition, interesting cultural diversity, and a strong societal fabric; components of a vibrant platform for promoting health and wellbeing. Health has a central place in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for at least three reasons: Firstly, health is shaped by factors outside of the health sector. Secondly, health can be singled out among several SDGs as it provides a…
Embedded research to advance primary health care
Realising renewed efforts to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage, manage health emergencies and create healthier populations requires integrated action on system-wide challenges. One of the best ways to do this is to focus on primary health care (PHC). Advancing PHC needs the support of a robust learning agenda—encompassing questions on how to improve both essential and emergency services, engage and empower communities and addr…
On the path to Universal Health Coverage
The health of India’s population has witnessed significant improvements over the past two decades. The infant mortality rate (IMR) has fallen from over 71 per 1000 live births in 1998 to 31 per 1000 live births in 2017. Maternal mortality has declined even more dramatically, from 540 maternal deaths in 1998 to 170 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births in 2013, a fall of close to 70%.1 These reductions in mortality have been accompanied by a maj…
A Comparative Study of Cultural Values in Chinese and American Parenting Reflected in The Joy Luck Club
Education plays a pivotal role in a country’s progress and rejuvenation. As the most basic and vital stage in education, parenting exerts an invaluable role in supporting the progress of children. Under the influence of production mode, geographical environment, national policy and other factors, education in different countries takes on a unique and distinguishable character in correspondence with its cultural and geographical contexts. China an…
Realizing the potential of embedded implementation research
A t the inception meeting for the project in Pakistan that this supplement draws from, a provincial immunization manager complained about researchers. He was scathing in his assessment that researchers were not helpful to him, that their research was irrelevant to the problems he faced in his work, and moreover, that researchers did not engage with him or share their research. His contention was that their only concern was in publishing papers. T…
Understanding the implications of the Sustainable Development Goals for health policy and systems research
BACKGROUND: Given the paradigmatic shift represented by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as compared to the Millennium Development Goals - in particular their broad and interconnected nature - a new set of health policy and systems research (HPSR) priorities are needed to inform strategies to address these interconnected goals. OBJECTIVES: To identify high priority HPSR questions linked to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Go…
Health intersectoralism in the Sustainable Development Goal era
In 2015, the United Nations’ (UN) Member States adopted a bold and holistic agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), integrating a vision of peace and prosperity for people and planet. Extensive work within, between, across sectors is required for this bold and holistic agenda to be implemented. It is in this context that this special article collection showcases multisectoral approaches to achieving SDG 3—Good Health and Well-Being—wh…
Implementation research is crucial to countries’ efforts to strengthen learning health systems
Capacity, committed funding and co-production—institutionalizing implementation research in low- and middle-income countries
How does embedded implementation research work? Examining core features through qualitative case studies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Innovative strategies are needed to improve the delivery of evidence-informed health interventions. Embedded implementation research (EIR) seeks to enhance the generation and use of evidence for programme improvement through four core features: (1) central involvement of programme/policy decision-makers in the research cycle; (2) collaborative research partnerships; (3) positioning research within programme processes and (4) research focused on i…
Harnessing the peace dividends of health
Building peace is usually considered the job and domain of diplomats. Health, however, is also a bridge to peace, and policymakers have identified the multifaceted linkages between health and peace.1 While conflict and violence affect physical and mental health, damaging health systems and other determinants of health, peace is also a critical prerequisite for health and well-being.2 The drivers of conflicts are often health related, and health c…
Public health education post-Covid-19
This article was published in the BMJ Global Health by BMJ Journals [© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/] and the definite version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005669 The Journal's website is at: https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/4/e005669
Codes Switching and Codes Mixing of Sellers and Buyers in Traditional Markets
The process of buying and selling communication in Asembagus Traditional Market often experiences language contact because the sellers and buyers come from several ethnicities who have different languages and cultures. This study aims to determine the form of code-switching and code-mixing speech between sellers and buyers in Asembagus Market, Situbondo. The method used in data collection is the engaging listening method with the technique of rec…
An embedded implementation research initiative to tackle service delivery bottlenecks in the expanded programme on immunisation in Pakistan
BACKGROUND: Embedded implementation research (IR) can play a critical role in health systems strengthening by tackling systems and implementation bottlenecks of a program. To achieve this aim, with the financial support of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, in 2016, the Government of Pakistan, UNICEF and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR) launched an Embedded IR for Immunisation Initiative (the Initiative) to explore health syst…
Modified scoping review of the enablers and barriers to implementing primary health care in the Covid-19 context
Since the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978, countries have varied in their progress towards establishing and sustaining comprehensive primary health care (PHC) and realizing its associated vision of ‘Health for All’. International health emergencies such as the coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic underscore the importance of PHC in underpinning health equity, including via access to routine essential services and emergency responsiveness. This review …
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