Humphrey Karamagi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 9001269 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Humphrey Karamagi |
| NOMBRES | Humphrey |
| APELLIDO | Karamagi |
| FIRMA | KARAMAGI H |
| AFILIACIONES | World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6277-2095 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
On the impact of inequity on the attainment of health results in the African Region
What opportunities exist for the governance of private sector engagement in mixed health systems in the African Region
Given the significant role of private actors in health across the African Region, there is a need to interrogate how private sector engagement (PSE) is governed. We identify three key opportunities for strengthening the governance of PSE in mixed health systems in the African Region. This work draws on a programme of activities conducted by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, including a multi-country stakeholder survey, a r…
Making districts functional for universal health coverage attainment
Ensuring the sub national level in the health system can function effectively is central to attainment of health results in countries. However, the current health agenda has not prioritized how districts can deploy their existing resources effectively, to maximize the efficiency equity and effectiveness in their use. Ghana initiated a self-assessment process to understand the functionality of districts to deliver on health results. The assessment…
Estimating the economic impact of Covid-19 disruption on access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in Eastern and Southern Africa
Background: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) resulted in the disruption of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) services in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. To date, studies estimating the impact of COVID-19 disruptions have mainly focused on SRHR services without estimating the economic implication. Method: We used national service coverage data on the effectiveness of interventions from the lives saved tool (LiST), a mathe…
Assessing capacities and resilience of health services during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article is part of the Research Topic: 'Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict.' Problem: Many countries lacked rapid and nimble data systems to track health service capacities to respond to COVID-19. They struggled to assess and monitor rapidly evolving service disruptions, health workforce capacities, health products availability, community needs and perspectives, and mitigation responses to maintain ess…
Assessing the governance environment for private sector engagement in health in Africa
Background: The role of the private sector in health is clear in many countries but engagement can be improved. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed a global strategy in 2020 focused on engaging the private sector in health service delivery through governance in mixed health systems and detailed six governance behaviours to guide its Member States. To operationalise these global ideas into practice, the Regional Office for Africa conduct…
Geospatial Clustering of Mobile Phone Use and Tuberculosis Health Outcomes Among African Health Systems
BACKGROUND: While multiple studies have documented the impacts of mobile phone use on TB health outcomes for varied settings, it is not immediately clear what the spatial patterns of TB treatment completion rates among African countries are. This paper used Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) techniques to explore the clustering spatial patterns of TB treatment completion rates in 53 African countries and also their relationships with mobile…
Estimating the threshold of health workforce densities towards universal health coverage in Africa
BACKGROUND: There have been past efforts to develop benchmarks for health workforce (HWF) needs across countries which have been helpful for advocacy and planning. Still, they have neither been country-specific nor disaggregated by cadre-primarily due to data inadequacies. This paper presents an analysis to estimate a threshold of 13 cadres of HWF density to support the progressive realisation of universal health coverage (UHC). METHOD: Using UHC…
Investments for effective functionality of health systems towards Universal Health Coverage in Africa
The health challenges in Africa underscore the importance of effectively investing in health systems. Unfortunately, there is no information on systems investments adequate for an effective functional health system. We aimed to address this by conducting a scoping review of existing evidence following the Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Evidence Synthesis and preregistered with the Open Science Framework ( https://osf.io/bvg4z ). We included a…
High impact health service interventions for attainment of UHC in Africa
African countries have prioritized the attainment of targets relating to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Health Security (HSE) and Coverage of Health Determinants (CHD)to attain their health goals. Given resource constraints, it is important to prioritize implementation of health service interventions with the highest impact. This is important to be identified across age cohorts and public health functions of health promotion, disease prevention…
EHealth or e-Chaos
Background: Digital health solutions are a potent and complementary intervention in health system strengthening to accelerate universal access to health services. Implementing scalable, sustainable, and integrated digital solutions in a coordinated manner is necessary to experience the benefits of digital interventions in health systems. We sought to establish the breadth and scope of available digital health interventions (DHIs) and their functi…
Framing the future of the Covid-19 response operations in 2022 in the WHO African region
BACKGROUND: With the evolving epidemiological parameters of COVID-19 in Africa, the response actions and lessons learnt during the pandemic's past two years, SARS-COV 2 will certainly continue to circulate in African countries in 2022 and beyond. As countries in the African continent need to be more prepared and plan to 'live with the virus' for the upcoming two years and after and at the same time mitigate risks by protecting the future most vul…
Towards universal health coverage in the WHO African Region
The move towards universal health coverage is premised on having well-functioning health systems, which can assure provision of the essential health and related services people need. Efforts to define ways to assess functionality of health systems have however varied, with many not translating into concrete policy action and influence on system development. We present an approach to provide countries with information on the functionality of their…
Monitoring Quality of Care in the WHO Africa Region-A study design for measurement and tracking, towards UHC attainment
This paper reports on the design of a study to generate a quality of care index for countries in the World Health Organization Africa Region.Quality of care, for all people at all times, remains pivotal to the advancement of the 2030 agenda and the attainment of Universal Health Coverage. We present a study protocol for deriving a quality of care index, hinged on indicators and data elements currently monitored through routine information systems…
The potential effects of widespread community transmission of Sars-CoV-2 infection in the World Health Organization African Region
The spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been unprecedented in its speed and effects. Interruption of its transmission to prevent widespread community transmission is critical because its effects go beyond the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths and affect the health system capacity to provide other essential services. Highlighting the implications of such a situation, the predictions presented here are deriv…
Abolition of cost-sharing is pro-poor
OBJECTIVE: To document the effects of the abolition of user fees on utilization of health services in Uganda with emphasis on poor and vulnerable groups. METHODS: A longitudinal study using quantitative and qualitative methods was carried out in 106 health facilities across the country. Health records were reviewed to determine trends in overall utilization patterns and use among vulnerable groups. A modification of wealth ranking as defined by t…
Abolition of cost-sharing is pro-poor
OBJECTIVE: To document the effects of the abolition of user fees on utilization of health services in Uganda with emphasis on poor and vulnerable groups. METHODS: A longitudinal study using quantitative and qualitative methods was carried out in 106 health facilities across the country. Health records were reviewed to determine trends in overall utilization patterns and use among vulnerable groups. A modification of wealth ranking as defined by t…
Abolition of cost-sharing is pro-poor
OBJECTIVE: To document the effects of the abolition of user fees on utilization of health services in Uganda with emphasis on poor and vulnerable groups. METHODS: A longitudinal study using quantitative and qualitative methods was carried out in 106 health facilities across the country. Health records were reviewed to determine trends in overall utilization patterns and use among vulnerable groups. A modification of wealth ranking as defined by t…
The potential effects of widespread community transmission of Sars-CoV-2 infection in the World Health Organization African Region
The spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been unprecedented in its speed and effects. Interruption of its transmission to prevent widespread community transmission is critical because its effects go beyond the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths and affect the health system capacity to provide other essential services. Highlighting the implications of such a situation, the predictions presented here are deriv…
Towards universal health coverage in the WHO African Region
The move towards universal health coverage is premised on having well-functioning health systems, which can assure provision of the essential health and related services people need. Efforts to define ways to assess functionality of health systems have however varied, with many not translating into concrete policy action and influence on system development. We present an approach to provide countries with information on the functionality of their…
Monitoring Quality of Care in the WHO Africa Region-A study design for measurement and tracking, towards UHC attainment
This paper reports on the design of a study to generate a quality of care index for countries in the World Health Organization Africa Region.Quality of care, for all people at all times, remains pivotal to the advancement of the 2030 agenda and the attainment of Universal Health Coverage. We present a study protocol for deriving a quality of care index, hinged on indicators and data elements currently monitored through routine information systems…
Geospatial Clustering of Mobile Phone Use and Tuberculosis Health Outcomes Among African Health Systems
BACKGROUND: While multiple studies have documented the impacts of mobile phone use on TB health outcomes for varied settings, it is not immediately clear what the spatial patterns of TB treatment completion rates among African countries are. This paper used Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) techniques to explore the clustering spatial patterns of TB treatment completion rates in 53 African countries and also their relationships with mobile…
Estimating the threshold of health workforce densities towards universal health coverage in Africa
BACKGROUND: There have been past efforts to develop benchmarks for health workforce (HWF) needs across countries which have been helpful for advocacy and planning. Still, they have neither been country-specific nor disaggregated by cadre-primarily due to data inadequacies. This paper presents an analysis to estimate a threshold of 13 cadres of HWF density to support the progressive realisation of universal health coverage (UHC). METHOD: Using UHC…
Investments for effective functionality of health systems towards Universal Health Coverage in Africa
The health challenges in Africa underscore the importance of effectively investing in health systems. Unfortunately, there is no information on systems investments adequate for an effective functional health system. We aimed to address this by conducting a scoping review of existing evidence following the Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Evidence Synthesis and preregistered with the Open Science Framework ( https://osf.io/bvg4z ). We included a…
High impact health service interventions for attainment of UHC in Africa
African countries have prioritized the attainment of targets relating to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Health Security (HSE) and Coverage of Health Determinants (CHD)to attain their health goals. Given resource constraints, it is important to prioritize implementation of health service interventions with the highest impact. This is important to be identified across age cohorts and public health functions of health promotion, disease prevention…
EHealth or e-Chaos
Background: Digital health solutions are a potent and complementary intervention in health system strengthening to accelerate universal access to health services. Implementing scalable, sustainable, and integrated digital solutions in a coordinated manner is necessary to experience the benefits of digital interventions in health systems. We sought to establish the breadth and scope of available digital health interventions (DHIs) and their functi…
Framing the future of the Covid-19 response operations in 2022 in the WHO African region
BACKGROUND: With the evolving epidemiological parameters of COVID-19 in Africa, the response actions and lessons learnt during the pandemic's past two years, SARS-COV 2 will certainly continue to circulate in African countries in 2022 and beyond. As countries in the African continent need to be more prepared and plan to 'live with the virus' for the upcoming two years and after and at the same time mitigate risks by protecting the future most vul…
Making districts functional for universal health coverage attainment
Ensuring the sub national level in the health system can function effectively is central to attainment of health results in countries. However, the current health agenda has not prioritized how districts can deploy their existing resources effectively, to maximize the efficiency equity and effectiveness in their use. Ghana initiated a self-assessment process to understand the functionality of districts to deliver on health results. The assessment…
Estimating the economic impact of Covid-19 disruption on access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in Eastern and Southern Africa
Background: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) resulted in the disruption of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) services in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. To date, studies estimating the impact of COVID-19 disruptions have mainly focused on SRHR services without estimating the economic implication. Method: We used national service coverage data on the effectiveness of interventions from the lives saved tool (LiST), a mathe…
Assessing capacities and resilience of health services during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article is part of the Research Topic: 'Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict.' Problem: Many countries lacked rapid and nimble data systems to track health service capacities to respond to COVID-19. They struggled to assess and monitor rapidly evolving service disruptions, health workforce capacities, health products availability, community needs and perspectives, and mitigation responses to maintain ess…
Assessing the governance environment for private sector engagement in health in Africa
Background: The role of the private sector in health is clear in many countries but engagement can be improved. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed a global strategy in 2020 focused on engaging the private sector in health service delivery through governance in mixed health systems and detailed six governance behaviours to guide its Member States. To operationalise these global ideas into practice, the Regional Office for Africa conduct…
What opportunities exist for the governance of private sector engagement in mixed health systems in the African Region
Given the significant role of private actors in health across the African Region, there is a need to interrogate how private sector engagement (PSE) is governed. We identify three key opportunities for strengthening the governance of PSE in mixed health systems in the African Region. This work draws on a programme of activities conducted by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, including a multi-country stakeholder survey, a r…
On the impact of inequity on the attainment of health results in the African Region
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