Ruth Cornick

Dados Biográficos

ID8991218
NOMERuth Cornick
PRENOMESRuth
SOBRENOMECornick
ASSINATURACORNICK R
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Cape Town
ORCID0000-0002-7391-3383
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2011
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • From face-to-face to e-learning

    Open AccessChristy-Joy Ras, Daniella Georgeu-Pepper et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Reliance on purely face-to-face in-service training for primary healthcare workers in low- and middle-income countries is increasingly unsustainable. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the transition of the University of Cape Town Knowledge Translation Unit’s Practical Approach to Care Kit programme from a facility-based cascade model to online and blended learning formats. This paper analyses the implementation of this transition across 29 course…

  • Addressing health information inequities

    Open AccessRuth Cornick, Sandy Claire Picken et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Disparity in access to trustworthy health information between high-income and low-income settings remains stark and contributes to global health inequity. The volume of new clinical practice guidelines a healthcare provider needs to digest to deliver up-to-date, evidence-based care is overwhelming, particularly in primary care, where the scope is comprehensive. However, many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) lack the resources to tailor gu…

  • Supporting a rapid primary care response to emergent communicable disease threats with Pack (Practical Approach to Care Kit) in Florianópolis, Brazil

    Open AccessRonaldo Zonta, Mariela Zaros Galana et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Emerging infectious diseases present a significant challenge to healthcare systems with their need for a rapid response and reallocation of resources. This paper explores the implementation of the Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK) programme in Florianópolis, Brazil as a strategic tool for reinforcing primary healthcare (PHC) responses to emergent communicable diseases. With its focus on enhancing PHC delivery in resource-limited settings, PAC…

  • Effects of Pack training on the management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by primary care clinicians during 2 years of implementation in Florianópolis, Brazil

    Open AccessSameer Shekar, M Bachmann et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: Training primary care doctors and nurses to use Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK) improved management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in a previous randomised trial. The present study examined the training effects including a second year of follow-up with expanded coverage of repeated training sessions. METHODS: Using a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial design, 48 clinics were randomly allocated eit…

  • Ethiopian primary healthcare clinical guidelines 5 years on—processes and lessons learnt from scaling up a primary healthcare initiative

    Open AccessAklog Getnet Kibret, Wondosen Mengiste Belete et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Many effective health system innovations fail to reach those who need them most, falling short of the goal of universal health coverage. In the 5 years since the Federal Ministry of Health in Ethiopia localised the Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK) programme to support primary care reforms, PACK has been scaled-up to over 90% of the country’s primary care health centres. Known as the Ethiopian Primary Healthcare Clinical Guideline (EPHCG), th…

  • Clinically sound and person centred

    Open AccessRuth Cornick, Inge Petersen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    The care of people with multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs) is complex and time-consuming, often denying them the agency to self-manage their conditions—or for the clinician they visit to provide streamlined, person-centred care. We reconfigured The Practical Approach to Care Kit, our established, evidence-based, policy-aligned clinical decision support tool for low-resource primary care settings, to provide consolidated clinical guidance for a…

  • Evaluating a streamlined clinical tool and educational outreach intervention for health care workers in Malawi

    Open AccessSumeet Sodhi, Hastings Banda et al.ARTICLEBMC International Health and…2011

    BACKGROUND: Nearly 3 million people in resource-poor countries receive antiretrovirals for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, yet millions more require treatment. Key barriers to treatment scale up are shortages of trained health care workers, and challenges integrating HIV/AIDS care with primary care. THE RESEARCH: PALM PLUS (Practical Approach to Lung Health and HIV/AIDS in Malawi) is an intervention designed to simplify and integrate existing Malawian…