Simon Lewin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 247013 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Simon Lewin |
| PRENOMES | Simon |
| SOBRENOME | Lewin |
| ASSINATURA | LEWIN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | South African Medical Research Council |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7521-9515 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 98 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Healthcare workers’ perceptions of health worker-related interventions to improve compliance with hand hygiene recommendations for infection prevention and control in hospitalised neonates and infants…
Hand hygiene (HH) reduces infections in hospitalised neonates and infants. The benefits of HH may be compromised by poor compliance by healthcare workers (HCW). We carried out a synthesis of two qualitative evidence syntheses (QES) to explore HCWs' perceptions of interventions to improve HH compliance (HHC) by health workers to prevent infections in hospitalised neonates and infants in Sub-Saharan Africa. We identified one existing QES - Chatfiel…
WHO launches global network of institutes to strengthen capacity for health inequality monitoring
This article introduces the global WHO-managed Health Inequality Monitoring Network, which is dedicated to strengthening and expanding health inequality monitoring practices at global, regional and country levels. Launched in 2025, the Health Inequality Monitoring Network consists of 12 inaugural institutional members, represented by over 140 affiliated individuals spanning all world regions. The Network aims to: strengthen capacities for health …
Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (Epoc) Qualitative Evidence Syntheses, Differences From Reviews of Intervention Effectiveness and Implications for Guidance
Systematic reviews of qualitative research (‘qualitative evidence syntheses’) are increasingly popular and represent a potentially important source of information about people’s views, needs and experiences. Since 2013, Cochrane has published qualitative evidence syntheses, and the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care group has been involved in the majority of these reviews. But more guidance is needed on how to prepare these revi…
Stakeholder Involvement in Systematic Reviews
Case study 1 describes stakeholder involvement in setting systematic review priorities
Qualitative Evidence Syntheses Within Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care
A growing number of researchers are preparing systematic reviews of qualitative evidence, often referred to as 'qualitative evidence syntheses'. Cochrane published its first qualitative evidence synthesis in 2013 and published 27 such syntheses and protocols by August 2020. Most of these syntheses have explored how people experience or value different health conditions, treatments and outcomes. Several have been used by guideline producers and ot…
Using a mHealth system to recall and refer existing clients and refer community members with health concerns to primary healthcare facilities in South Africa
Background: Lay health workers (LHWs) are critical in linking communities and primary healthcare (PHC) facilities. Effective communication between facilities and LHWs is key to this role. We implemented a mobile health (mHealth) system to improve communication and continuity of care for chronically ill clients. The system focused on requests from facility staff to LHWs to follow up clients and LHW referrals of people who needed care at a facility…
Purposive sampling in a qualitative evidence synthesis
BACKGROUND: In a qualitative evidence synthesis, too much data due to a large number of studies can undermine our ability to perform a thorough analysis. Purposive sampling of primary studies for inclusion in the synthesis is one way of achieving a manageable amount of data. The objective of this article is to describe the development and application of a sampling framework for a qualitative evidence synthesis on vaccination communication. METHOD…
Improving reporting of meta-ethnography
AIMS: The aim of this study was to provide guidance to improve the completeness and clarity of meta-ethnography reporting. BACKGROUND: Evidence-based policy and practice require robust evidence syntheses which can further understanding of people's experiences and associated social processes. Meta-ethnography is a rigorous seven-phase qualitative evidence synthesis methodology, developed by Noblit and Hare. Meta-ethnography is used widely in healt…
Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group guidance series—paper 3
Applying GRADE-Cerqual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings
The GRADE-CERQual ('Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research') approach provides guidance for assessing how much confidence to place in findings from systematic reviews of qualitative research (or qualitative evidence syntheses). The approach has been developed to support the use of findings from qualitative evidence syntheses in decision-making, including guideline development and policy formulation. Confidence in the evid…
Using the COMMVAC taxonomy to map vaccination communication interventions in Mozambique
BACKGROUND: Improved communication about childhood vaccination is fundamental to increasing vaccine uptake in low-income countries. Mozambique, with 64% of children fully vaccinated, uses a range of communication interventions to promote uptake of childhood immunisation. OBJECTIVES: Using a taxonomy developed by the 'Communicate to Vaccinate' (COMMVAC) project, the study aims to identify and classify the existing communication interventions for v…
Implementation considerations when expanding health worker roles to include safe abortion care
To increase the likelihood of success for role expansion strategies in the area of safe abortion, programme planners must consider how to ensure motivation, support and reasonable working conditions for affected health workers
Factors affecting the implementation of childhood vaccination communication strategies in Nigeria
Communication activities are a crucial element of immunization programmes. It is therefore important for policy makers and programme managers to understand the barriers and facilitators affecting the delivery of vaccination communication so as to be able to implement communication interventions more effectively
The comprehensive ‘Communicate to Vaccinate’ taxonomy of communication interventions for childhood vaccination in routine and campaign contexts
This taxonomy provides a standardised way to think and speak about vaccination communication. It is categorised by purpose to help conceptualise communication interventions as potential solutions to address needs or problems. It can be utilised by programme planners, implementers, researchers and funders to see the range of communication interventions used in practice, facilitate evidence synthesis and identify evidence gaps
Communication strategies to promote the uptake of childhood vaccination in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Effective communication is a critical component in ensuring that children are fully vaccinated. Although numerous communication interventions have been proposed and implemented in various parts of Nigeria, the range of communication strategies used has not yet been mapped systematically. This study forms part of the 'Communicate to vaccinate' (COMMVAC) project, an initiative aimed at building research evidence for improving communicat…
Fair publication of qualitative research in health systems
10.1186/s12939-016-0368-y
Using Qualitative Evidence in Decision Making for Health and Social Interventions
Simon Lewin and colleagues present a methodology for increasing transparency and confidence in qualitative research synthesis.
Mapping how information about childhood vaccination is communicated in two regions of Cameroon
By identifying the interventions used in Cameroon and developing an intervention map, we allowed stakeholders to see where they were concentrating their communication efforts and where gaps exist, allowing them to reflect on whether changes are needed to the communication strategies they are using
“Communicate to vaccinate”
BACKGROUND: Vaccination is a cost-effective public health measure and is central to the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality. However, childhood vaccination coverage remains sub-optimal in many settings. While communication is a key feature of vaccination programmes, we are not aware of any comprehensive approach to organising the broad range of communication interventions that can be delivered to parents and communities to imp…
Towards an empowerment approach in tuberculosis treatment in Cape Town, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis rates in the world remain high, especially in low- and middle-income countries. International tuberculosis (TB) policy generally recommends the use of directly observed therapy (DOT) to ensure treatment adherence. OBJECTIVE: This article examines a change in TB treatment support that occurred in 2005 in South Africa, from DOT to the enhanced TB adherence programme (ETA). DESIGN: Seven key individuals representing academic…
What can be learnt from historical analysis? Community health workers and health policy in South Africa. A response to van Rensburg, H.C.J., Wouters, E., and de Wet, K.'s critique (in this issue)
Enacting 'team' and 'teamwork
Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases
BACKGROUND: Lay health workers (LHWs) are widely used to provide care for a broad range of health issues. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of LHW interventions. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of LHW interventions in primary and community health care on maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases. SEARCH STRATEGY: For the current version of this review we searched The Cochrane Central Register of Control…
Should we care what policy makers think? A response to Maes, Kohrt and Closser
Policy development in malaria vector management in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe
INTRODUCTION: Indoor residual spraying (IRS) and insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), two principal malaria control strategies, are similar in cost and efficacy. We aimed to describe recent policy development regarding their use in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. METHODS: Using a qualitative case study methodology, we undertook semi-structured interviews of key informants from May 2004 to March 2005, carried out document reviews and developed …
The female community health volunteer programme in Nepal
Enacting 'team' and 'teamwork
The emergence of community health worker programmes in the late apartheid era in South Africa
There is re-emerging interest in community health workers (CHWs) as part of wider policies regarding task-shifting within human resources for health. This paper examines the history of CHW programmes established in South Africa in the later apartheid years (1970s-1994) - a time of innovative initiatives. After 1994, the new democratic government embraced primary healthcare (PHC), however CHW initiatives were not included in their health plan and …
Hope is the pillar of the universe
Policy development in malaria vector management in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe
INTRODUCTION: Indoor residual spraying (IRS) and insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), two principal malaria control strategies, are similar in cost and efficacy. We aimed to describe recent policy development regarding their use in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. METHODS: Using a qualitative case study methodology, we undertook semi-structured interviews of key informants from May 2004 to March 2005, carried out document reviews and developed …
Zimbabwe's Hospital Referral System
BACKGROUND: Anecdotal evidence has suggested inefficiency in the pyramidal health care referral system established in Zimbabwe in 1980, as part of its primary health care (PHC) model. AIM: To assess the functioning of the pyramidal referral system in two rural districts surrounding Harare, Zimbabwe, with regard to two common indicator conditions: pneumonia in children and malaria in adults. METHODS: For a three-month period, all complete inpatien…
Ritual and the organisation of care in primary care clinics in Cape Town, South Africa
Torture and Ill-Treatment Based on Sexual Identity
Simon Lewin, Ilan H. Meyer, Torture and Ill-Treatment Based on Sexual Identity: The Roles and Responsibilities of Health Professionals and Their Institutions, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2002), pp. 161-176
Planning urban environmental health information systems
This paper describes and reflects on an initiative to develop environmental health indicators in Cape Town, South Africa. The project aimed to provide decision makers, environmental health professionals and the community with better information on the health impacts of environmental hazards. The paper summarizes the social, environmental and health conditions in the city and the organization of local government services, and then describes the pa…
Zimbabwe's Hospital Referral System
BACKGROUND: Anecdotal evidence has suggested inefficiency in the pyramidal health care referral system established in Zimbabwe in 1980, as part of its primary health care (PHC) model. AIM: To assess the functioning of the pyramidal referral system in two rural districts surrounding Harare, Zimbabwe, with regard to two common indicator conditions: pneumonia in children and malaria in adults. METHODS: For a three-month period, all complete inpatien…
Planning urban environmental health information systems
This paper describes and reflects on an initiative to develop environmental health indicators in Cape Town, South Africa. The project aimed to provide decision makers, environmental health professionals and the community with better information on the health impacts of environmental hazards. The paper summarizes the social, environmental and health conditions in the city and the organization of local government services, and then describes the pa…
Planning urban environmental health information systems
This paper describes and reflects on an initiative to develop environmental health indicators in Cape Town, South Africa. The project aimed to provide decision makers, environmental health professionals and the community with better information on the health impacts of environmental hazards. The paper summarizes the social, environmental and health conditions in the city and the organization of local government services, and then describes the pa…
Torture and Ill-Treatment Based on Sexual Identity
Simon Lewin, Ilan H. Meyer, Torture and Ill-Treatment Based on Sexual Identity: The Roles and Responsibilities of Health Professionals and Their Institutions, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2002), pp. 161-176
A review of health behaviour theories
Hope is the pillar of the universe
Conducting a meta-ethnography of qualitative literature
BACKGROUND: Qualitative synthesis has become more commonplace in recent years. Meta-ethnography is one of several methods for synthesising qualitative research and is being used increasingly within health care research. However, many aspects of the steps in the process remain ill-defined. DISCUSSION: We utilized the seven stages of the synthesis process to synthesise qualitative research on adherence to tuberculosis treatment. In this paper we di…
Use of qualitative methods alongside randomised controlled trials of complex healthcare interventions
OBJECTIVE: To examine the use of qualitative approaches alongside randomised trials of complex healthcare interventions. DESIGN: Review of randomised controlled trials of interventions to change professional practice or the organisation of care. DATA SOURCES: Systematic sample of 100 trials published in English from the register of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Review Group. METHODS: Published and unpublished qualitativ…
Ritual and the organisation of care in primary care clinics in Cape Town, South Africa
Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases
BACKGROUND: Lay health workers (LHWs) are widely used to provide care for a broad range of health issues. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of LHW interventions. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of LHW interventions in primary and community health care on maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases. SEARCH STRATEGY: For the current version of this review we searched The Cochrane Central Register of Control…
Should we care what policy makers think? A response to Maes, Kohrt and Closser
Policy development in malaria vector management in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe
INTRODUCTION: Indoor residual spraying (IRS) and insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), two principal malaria control strategies, are similar in cost and efficacy. We aimed to describe recent policy development regarding their use in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. METHODS: Using a qualitative case study methodology, we undertook semi-structured interviews of key informants from May 2004 to March 2005, carried out document reviews and developed …
The emergence of community health worker programmes in the late apartheid era in South Africa
There is re-emerging interest in community health workers (CHWs) as part of wider policies regarding task-shifting within human resources for health. This paper examines the history of CHW programmes established in South Africa in the later apartheid years (1970s-1994) - a time of innovative initiatives. After 1994, the new democratic government embraced primary healthcare (PHC), however CHW initiatives were not included in their health plan and …
The female community health volunteer programme in Nepal
What can be learnt from historical analysis? Community health workers and health policy in South Africa. A response to van Rensburg, H.C.J., Wouters, E., and de Wet, K.'s critique (in this issue)
Enacting 'team' and 'teamwork
Towards an empowerment approach in tuberculosis treatment in Cape Town, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis rates in the world remain high, especially in low- and middle-income countries. International tuberculosis (TB) policy generally recommends the use of directly observed therapy (DOT) to ensure treatment adherence. OBJECTIVE: This article examines a change in TB treatment support that occurred in 2005 in South Africa, from DOT to the enhanced TB adherence programme (ETA). DESIGN: Seven key individuals representing academic…
“Communicate to vaccinate”
BACKGROUND: Vaccination is a cost-effective public health measure and is central to the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality. However, childhood vaccination coverage remains sub-optimal in many settings. While communication is a key feature of vaccination programmes, we are not aware of any comprehensive approach to organising the broad range of communication interventions that can be delivered to parents and communities to imp…
Using Qualitative Evidence in Decision Making for Health and Social Interventions
Simon Lewin and colleagues present a methodology for increasing transparency and confidence in qualitative research synthesis.
Mapping how information about childhood vaccination is communicated in two regions of Cameroon
By identifying the interventions used in Cameroon and developing an intervention map, we allowed stakeholders to see where they were concentrating their communication efforts and where gaps exist, allowing them to reflect on whether changes are needed to the communication strategies they are using
Communication strategies to promote the uptake of childhood vaccination in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Effective communication is a critical component in ensuring that children are fully vaccinated. Although numerous communication interventions have been proposed and implemented in various parts of Nigeria, the range of communication strategies used has not yet been mapped systematically. This study forms part of the 'Communicate to vaccinate' (COMMVAC) project, an initiative aimed at building research evidence for improving communicat…
Fair publication of qualitative research in health systems
10.1186/s12939-016-0368-y
Using the COMMVAC taxonomy to map vaccination communication interventions in Mozambique
BACKGROUND: Improved communication about childhood vaccination is fundamental to increasing vaccine uptake in low-income countries. Mozambique, with 64% of children fully vaccinated, uses a range of communication interventions to promote uptake of childhood immunisation. OBJECTIVES: Using a taxonomy developed by the 'Communicate to Vaccinate' (COMMVAC) project, the study aims to identify and classify the existing communication interventions for v…
Implementation considerations when expanding health worker roles to include safe abortion care
To increase the likelihood of success for role expansion strategies in the area of safe abortion, programme planners must consider how to ensure motivation, support and reasonable working conditions for affected health workers
Factors affecting the implementation of childhood vaccination communication strategies in Nigeria
Communication activities are a crucial element of immunization programmes. It is therefore important for policy makers and programme managers to understand the barriers and facilitators affecting the delivery of vaccination communication so as to be able to implement communication interventions more effectively
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