Sérgio Chicumbe
Biographic Data
| ID | 7030092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sérgio Chicumbe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sérgio |
| FAMILY NAME | Chicumbe |
| SIGNATURE | CHICUMBE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Instituto Nacional de Saúde |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2498-9373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Inequalities and factors associated with maternal healthcare services utilisation in Mozambique
Background Mozambique has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa. While some progress has been made, further efforts are required to ensure that women in Mozambique have access to high-quality healthcare. A key strategy for reducing maternal and child mortality is to promote adequate access to and utilisation of maternal healthcare services. Methods We used the population-based, nationwide, cross-sectional Mozambique De…
Can audit and feedback improve health service readiness and delivery outcomes in a low-resource setting? Effectiveness results of the Ideas strategy from central Mozambique
Limited evidence exists on audit and feedback(A&F) in low-resource contexts. We tested the Integrated District Evidence-to-Action (IDEAs), a multicomponent A&F strategy in Mozambique’s maternal and child health (MCH) services. IDEAs include A&F meetings, readiness assessments, and facility support. We report the effectiveness results. IDEAs were implemented in 2016–2020 across two provinces, 12 districts, and 154 primary health facilities in Moza…
Infectious disease forecasting to support public health
Background: Mozambique faces a high burden of infectious diseases but currently has limited capacity for forecasting disease incidence. Recent improvements in disease surveillance through the National Monitoring and Evaluation System now provide weekly reports of disease incidence across the country's districts. This study focuses on using these records, specifically for malaria and diarrhoeal diseases, which together account for approximately 40…
Characteristics of Anemia in Children Aged 6 Months to 5 Years Attending External Consultations at a Pediatric Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal
Background/Objectives: Childhood anemia remains a serious public health issue, negatively affecting cognitive and psychomotor development, with repercussions on school performance and adult productivity. This study aimed to characterize the profile of children aged 6 months to 5 years diagnosed with or at risk of anemia who attended a pediatric hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. Methods: A hospital-based, cross-sectional descriptive study was conducte…
Early effects of Covid-19 on maternal and child health service disruption in Mozambique
This article is part of the Research Topic ‘ Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict
Caregivers’ psychosocial assessment for identifying HIV-infected infants at risk of poor treatment adherence
Psychosocial support (PSS) to caregivers of HIV-infected infants on antiretroviral treatment (ART) is crucial to ensure ART adherence and sustained long-term viral suppression in children. A specific approach including tools to monitor and understand adherence behavior and risk factors that prevent optimal treatment compliance are urgently needed. This qualitative exploratory study, conducted in southern Mozambique, monitored the infants' viral r…
Covid-19-related healthcare impacts
INTRODUCTION: Currently, COVID-19 dominates the public health agenda and poses a permanent threat, leading to health systems' exhaustion and unprecedented service disruption. Primary healthcare services, including tuberculosis services, are at increased risk of facing severe disruptions, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. Indeed, corroborating model-based forecasts, there is increasing evidence of the COVID-19 pandemic's nega…
Factors Associated with Underutilization of Maternity Health Care Cascade in Mozambique
Maternity health care services utilization determines maternal and neonate outcomes. Evidence about factors associated with composite non-utilization of four or more antenatal consultations and intrapartum health care services is needed in Mozambique. This study uses data from the 2015 nationwide Mozambique's Malaria, Immunization and HIV Indicators Survey. At selected representative households, women ( n = 2629) with child aged up to 3 years ans…
How prepared is Mozambique to treat Covid-19 patients? A new approach for estimating oxygen service availability, oxygen treatment capacity, and population access to oxygen-ready treatment facilities
The Mozambican health system faces the dual challenges of under-resourced health facilities and low geographic accessibility to healthcare as it prepares to confront the COVID-19 pandemic. This analysis also illustrates the disparity between provinces in preparedness to deliver oxygen therapy to patient, with Cabo Delgado and Nampula being particularly under-resourced
Health equity monitoring is essential in public health
BACKGROUND: Countries must be able to describe and monitor their populations health and well-being needs in an attempt to understand and address them. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have re-emphasized the need to invest in comprehensive health information systems to monitor progress towards health equity; however, knowledge on the capacity of health information systems to be able do this, particularly in low-income countries, remains ve…
Incorporating selected non-communicable diseases into facility-based surveillance systems from a resource-limited setting in Africa
Changes in existing surveillance tools for communicable diseases provided important data on the burden and outcomes of the selected NCD helping to identify priority areas for training and health care improvement. This information can be used to design the local NCD clinics and to strengthen the health information system in resource-limited settings in a progressive and sustainable way
Good health’ as a barrier and facilitator to ART initiation
HIV test-and-treat programmes are being implemented throughout sub-Saharan Africa, enrolling HIV-positive clients into antiretroviral treatment (ART) immediately after diagnosis, regardless of clinical stage or CD4 count. This study conducted in Mozambique examined what influenced clients who tested HIV-positive in the context of test-and-treat to make ART initiation decisions. Eighty in-depth interviews with HIV-positive clients and nine focus g…
Intervention heroes of Mozambique from 1997 to 2015
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Intervention heroes of Mozambique from 1997 to 2015
Health equity monitoring is essential in public health
BACKGROUND: Countries must be able to describe and monitor their populations health and well-being needs in an attempt to understand and address them. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have re-emphasized the need to invest in comprehensive health information systems to monitor progress towards health equity; however, knowledge on the capacity of health information systems to be able do this, particularly in low-income countries, remains ve…
Incorporating selected non-communicable diseases into facility-based surveillance systems from a resource-limited setting in Africa
Changes in existing surveillance tools for communicable diseases provided important data on the burden and outcomes of the selected NCD helping to identify priority areas for training and health care improvement. This information can be used to design the local NCD clinics and to strengthen the health information system in resource-limited settings in a progressive and sustainable way
Good health’ as a barrier and facilitator to ART initiation
HIV test-and-treat programmes are being implemented throughout sub-Saharan Africa, enrolling HIV-positive clients into antiretroviral treatment (ART) immediately after diagnosis, regardless of clinical stage or CD4 count. This study conducted in Mozambique examined what influenced clients who tested HIV-positive in the context of test-and-treat to make ART initiation decisions. Eighty in-depth interviews with HIV-positive clients and nine focus g…
How prepared is Mozambique to treat Covid-19 patients? A new approach for estimating oxygen service availability, oxygen treatment capacity, and population access to oxygen-ready treatment facilities
The Mozambican health system faces the dual challenges of under-resourced health facilities and low geographic accessibility to healthcare as it prepares to confront the COVID-19 pandemic. This analysis also illustrates the disparity between provinces in preparedness to deliver oxygen therapy to patient, with Cabo Delgado and Nampula being particularly under-resourced
Covid-19-related healthcare impacts
INTRODUCTION: Currently, COVID-19 dominates the public health agenda and poses a permanent threat, leading to health systems' exhaustion and unprecedented service disruption. Primary healthcare services, including tuberculosis services, are at increased risk of facing severe disruptions, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. Indeed, corroborating model-based forecasts, there is increasing evidence of the COVID-19 pandemic's nega…
Factors Associated with Underutilization of Maternity Health Care Cascade in Mozambique
Maternity health care services utilization determines maternal and neonate outcomes. Evidence about factors associated with composite non-utilization of four or more antenatal consultations and intrapartum health care services is needed in Mozambique. This study uses data from the 2015 nationwide Mozambique's Malaria, Immunization and HIV Indicators Survey. At selected representative households, women ( n = 2629) with child aged up to 3 years ans…
Early effects of Covid-19 on maternal and child health service disruption in Mozambique
This article is part of the Research Topic ‘ Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict
Caregivers’ psychosocial assessment for identifying HIV-infected infants at risk of poor treatment adherence
Psychosocial support (PSS) to caregivers of HIV-infected infants on antiretroviral treatment (ART) is crucial to ensure ART adherence and sustained long-term viral suppression in children. A specific approach including tools to monitor and understand adherence behavior and risk factors that prevent optimal treatment compliance are urgently needed. This qualitative exploratory study, conducted in southern Mozambique, monitored the infants' viral r…
Inequalities and factors associated with maternal healthcare services utilisation in Mozambique
Background Mozambique has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa. While some progress has been made, further efforts are required to ensure that women in Mozambique have access to high-quality healthcare. A key strategy for reducing maternal and child mortality is to promote adequate access to and utilisation of maternal healthcare services. Methods We used the population-based, nationwide, cross-sectional Mozambique De…
Can audit and feedback improve health service readiness and delivery outcomes in a low-resource setting? Effectiveness results of the Ideas strategy from central Mozambique
Limited evidence exists on audit and feedback(A&F) in low-resource contexts. We tested the Integrated District Evidence-to-Action (IDEAs), a multicomponent A&F strategy in Mozambique’s maternal and child health (MCH) services. IDEAs include A&F meetings, readiness assessments, and facility support. We report the effectiveness results. IDEAs were implemented in 2016–2020 across two provinces, 12 districts, and 154 primary health facilities in Moza…
Infectious disease forecasting to support public health
Background: Mozambique faces a high burden of infectious diseases but currently has limited capacity for forecasting disease incidence. Recent improvements in disease surveillance through the National Monitoring and Evaluation System now provide weekly reports of disease incidence across the country's districts. This study focuses on using these records, specifically for malaria and diarrhoeal diseases, which together account for approximately 40…
Characteristics of Anemia in Children Aged 6 Months to 5 Years Attending External Consultations at a Pediatric Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal
Background/Objectives: Childhood anemia remains a serious public health issue, negatively affecting cognitive and psychomotor development, with repercussions on school performance and adult productivity. This study aimed to characterize the profile of children aged 6 months to 5 years diagnosed with or at risk of anemia who attended a pediatric hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. Methods: A hospital-based, cross-sectional descriptive study was conducte…
Medicine (13 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (8 works) · Health care (7 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Public health (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Population (4 works)