Tamara Mulenga Willows
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 7581318 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tamara Mulenga Willows |
| NOMBRES | Tamara Mulenga |
| APELLIDO | Willows |
| FIRMA | WILLOWS T M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0760-5574 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Medical specialists in LMICs
BACKGROUND: Medical specialists are integral to the medical workforce and play a pivotal role in referral systems. However, in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), there is a perception that specialists often fail to align with local health needs, system capacities and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) objectives. METHODS: A systematic review was conducted in 2024 using a best-fit framework to assess the contributions of specialists to h…
The normalisation of under-resourcing limits the potential for improvement of critical care
The reduced availability of materials, staff, and health infrastructure commonly seen in Low- and Middle-Income Country (LMIC) settings is known to directly limit the ability of a hospital to provide effective care to critically ill patients. We use Health Facility Assessments (HFAs), 'hospital journeys', and in-depth interviews across five secondary and tertiary referral-level government hospitals in Kenya to explore their readiness to provide E…
First referral hospitals in low-resource settings
First referral hospitals (FRHs) have an important role to play in helping many countries achieve ‘Health for All’. However, their specific role and the clinical services they are expected to provide to achieve this are evolving. To explore this issue further, we undertook a narrative review to examine the clinical service expectations of FRHs outlined in academic and policy literature, which identified a total of 404 FRH service expectations. At …
First referral hospitals in low- and middle-income countries
First referral hospitals (FRHs) are the hospitals closest to the community, which offer expertise or technologies to complement more widely available ‘basic’ ambulatory care or inpatient care. Despite having been a subject of interest in global health policy in the latter half of the 20th century, in more recent decades, they appear to have been overshadowed. This paper reviews what is understood by FRH, drawing on both academic and policy litera…
Covid-19 and unintended steps towards further equity in global health research
There was, and possibly still is, potential for COVID-19 to disrupt power inequities and contribute to positive transformation in global health research that increases equity. While there is consensus about the need to decolonise by transforming global health, and a roadmap outlining how we could approach it, there are few examples of steps that could be taken to transform the mechanics of global health research. This paper contributes lessons le…
Hospital care for critical illness in low-resource settings
Care for the critically ill patients is often considered synonymous with a hospital having an intensive care unit. However, a focus on Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) may obviate the need for much intensive care. Severe COVID-19 presented a specific critical care challenge while also being an exemplar of critical illness in general. Our multidisciplinary team conducted research in Kenya and Tanzania on hospitals’ ability to provide E…
Receive, Sustain, and Flow
Background: Hospital patients can become critically ill anywhere in a hospital but their survival is affected by problems of identification and adequate, timely, treatment. This is issue of particular concern in lower middle-income countries' (LMICs) hospitals where specialised units are scarce and severely under-resourced. "Cross-sectional" approaches to improving narrow, specific aspects of care will not attend to issues that affect patients' c…
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Covid-19 and unintended steps towards further equity in global health research
There was, and possibly still is, potential for COVID-19 to disrupt power inequities and contribute to positive transformation in global health research that increases equity. While there is consensus about the need to decolonise by transforming global health, and a roadmap outlining how we could approach it, there are few examples of steps that could be taken to transform the mechanics of global health research. This paper contributes lessons le…
Hospital care for critical illness in low-resource settings
Care for the critically ill patients is often considered synonymous with a hospital having an intensive care unit. However, a focus on Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) may obviate the need for much intensive care. Severe COVID-19 presented a specific critical care challenge while also being an exemplar of critical illness in general. Our multidisciplinary team conducted research in Kenya and Tanzania on hospitals’ ability to provide E…
Receive, Sustain, and Flow
Background: Hospital patients can become critically ill anywhere in a hospital but their survival is affected by problems of identification and adequate, timely, treatment. This is issue of particular concern in lower middle-income countries' (LMICs) hospitals where specialised units are scarce and severely under-resourced. "Cross-sectional" approaches to improving narrow, specific aspects of care will not attend to issues that affect patients' c…
First referral hospitals in low- and middle-income countries
First referral hospitals (FRHs) are the hospitals closest to the community, which offer expertise or technologies to complement more widely available ‘basic’ ambulatory care or inpatient care. Despite having been a subject of interest in global health policy in the latter half of the 20th century, in more recent decades, they appear to have been overshadowed. This paper reviews what is understood by FRH, drawing on both academic and policy litera…
First referral hospitals in low-resource settings
First referral hospitals (FRHs) have an important role to play in helping many countries achieve ‘Health for All’. However, their specific role and the clinical services they are expected to provide to achieve this are evolving. To explore this issue further, we undertook a narrative review to examine the clinical service expectations of FRHs outlined in academic and policy literature, which identified a total of 404 FRH service expectations. At …
Medical specialists in LMICs
BACKGROUND: Medical specialists are integral to the medical workforce and play a pivotal role in referral systems. However, in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), there is a perception that specialists often fail to align with local health needs, system capacities and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) objectives. METHODS: A systematic review was conducted in 2024 using a best-fit framework to assess the contributions of specialists to h…
The normalisation of under-resourcing limits the potential for improvement of critical care
The reduced availability of materials, staff, and health infrastructure commonly seen in Low- and Middle-Income Country (LMIC) settings is known to directly limit the ability of a hospital to provide effective care to critically ill patients. We use Health Facility Assessments (HFAs), 'hospital journeys', and in-depth interviews across five secondary and tertiary referral-level government hospitals in Kenya to explore their readiness to provide E…
Global Maternal and Child Health (5 obras) · Health care (5 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Critically ill (3 obras) · Global Health and Surgery (3 obras) · Nursing (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Disease (2 obras) · Intensive care medicine (2 obras) · Kenya (2 obras)