Ian Couper

Biographic Data

ID7989988
NAMEIan Couper
GIVEN NAMESIan
FAMILY NAMECouper
SIGNATURECOUPER I
AFFILIATIONSStellenbosch University
ORCID0000-0003-1587-6075
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Covid-19 preparedness and response in rural and remote areas

    Open AccessLilian Dudley, Ian Couper et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    This scoping review used the Arksey and O’Malley approach to explore COVID-19 preparedness and response in rural and remote areas to identify lessons to inform future health preparedness and response planning. A search of scientific and grey literature for rural COVID-19 preparedness and responses identified 5 668 articles published between 2019 and early 2022. A total of 293 articles were included, of which 160 (54.5%) were from high income coun…

  • Comparing in-person, blended and virtual training interventions; a real-world evaluation of HIV capacity building programs in 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessElsie Kiguli-Malwadde, Maeve Forster et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    We sought to evaluate the impact of transitioning a multi-country HIV training program from in-person to online by comparing digital training approaches implemented during the pandemic with in-person approaches employed before COVID-19. We evaluated mean changes in pre-and post-course knowledge scores and self-reported confidence scores for learners who participated in (1) in-person workshops (between October 2019 and March 2020), (2) entirely as…

  • Exploring rural doctors’ early experiences of coping with the emerging Covid‐19 pandemic

    Open AccessIan Couper, Lucie Walters et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health2022

    PURPOSE: To understand how rural doctors (physicians) responded to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic and their strategies for coping. METHODS: Early in the pandemic doctors (physicians) who practise rural and remote medicine were invited to participate through existing rural doctors' networks. Thirteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with rural doctors from 11 countries. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and coded using NVivo. A themati…

  • Training for Transformation

    Open AccessJana Müller, Cameron Reardon et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Background: In 2018, Stellenbosch University's Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health led a faculty initiative to expand undergraduate health professions training to a new site, 9 hours drive from the health sciences campus in the sparsely populated Northern Cape Province of South Africa in the town of Upington. This is part of a faculty strategy to extend undergraduate health sciences training into an under-resourced part of the country, where there is…

  • Preparing Graduates for Interprofessional Practice in South Africa

    Open AccessJana Müller, Ian CouperARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    With South Africa's tumultuous history and resulting burden of disease and disability persisting post-democracy in 1994, a proposed decentralization of heath care with an urgent focus on disease prevention strategies ensued in 2010. Subsequently a nationwide call by students to adapt teaching and learning to an African context spoke to the need for responsive health professions training. Institutions of higher education are therefore encouraged t…

  • Longitudinal integrated clerkships

    Open AccessIan Couper, Francois Coetzee et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2021

  • Acceptability and feasibility of inter-related activities to improve agency among African district health managers

    Open AccessSharon Fonn, Sunanda Ray et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2021

    District health managers (DHMs) lead and manage Ministry of Health programmes and system performance. We report on the acceptability and feasibility of inter-related activities to increase the agency of DHMs in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda using a cross-sectional rapid appraisal with 372 DHMs employing structured questionnaires. We found differences and similarities between the countries, in particular, who becomes a DHM. The opportuni…

  • Declaração de Gramado pela Saúde Rural nos países em desenvolvimento

    Open AccessLeonardo Vieira Targa, John Wynn-Jones et al.ARTICLERevista Brasileira de Medicina de…2014

    Nós, aqui reunidos na XII Conferência Mundial de Saúde Rural da Wonca / IV Congresso Sulbrasileiro de Medicina de Família e Comunidade, declaramos como reflexão e recomendação para a saúde das populações rurais, em particular para os países em desenvolvimento, o que segue. Sistemas de saúde para uma melhor saúde rural A saúde rural não pode ser pensada separadamente do desenvolvimento do sistema de saúde.Pessoas de países em desenvolvimento merec…

  • Building consensus on key priorities for rural health care in South Africa using the Delphi technique

    Open AccessMarije Versteeg, Lilo du Toit et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2013

    BACKGROUND: South Africa is currently undergoing major health system restructuring in an attempt to improve health outcomes and reduce inequities in access. Such inequities exist between private and public health care and within the public health system itself. Experience shows that rural health care can be disadvantaged in policy formulation despite good intentions. The objective of this study was to identify the major challenges and priority in…

  • Developing a new mid-level health worker

    Open AccessJane Doherty, Daphney Conco et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2013

    BACKGROUND: Mid-level medical workers play an important role in health systems and hold great potential for addressing the human resource shortage, especially in low- and middle-income countries. South Africa began the production of its first mid-level medical workers - known as clinical associates - in small numbers in 2008. OBJECTIVE: We describe the way in which scopes of practice and course design were negotiated and assess progress during th…