ArticleBMC health services research2018
Patients' perspectives of acceptability of ART, TB and maternal health services in a subdistrict of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Article in BMC health services research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Multidimensional Poverty and Implementation Reach of Household Contact Tracing for Tuberculosis in South Africa: Analysis of a Randomized Trial.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026Trial
- Global burden of maternal disorders, 1990-2021: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 and challenges for achieving 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- Innovative Diagnostic Approaches and Challenges in the Management of HIV: Bridging Basic Science and Clinical Practice.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Barriers to Accessing Antiretroviral Treatment Among Key Populations in Southwest Nigeria.Cureus · 2024Article
- A tool to define and measure maternal healthcare acceptability at a selected health sub-district in South Africa.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Review
- Closing the gaps in defining and conceptualising acceptability of healthcare: a qualitative thematic content analysis.African health sciences · 2022Article
- "Take the treatment and be brave": Care experiences of pregnant women with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe field of acceptability of health services is emerging and growing in coherence. But there are gaps, including relatively little integration of elements of acceptability. This study attempted to analyse collectively three elements of acceptability namely: patient-provider, patient-service organisation and patient-community interactions.
methodsMixed methods were used to analyse secondary data collected as part of the Researching Equity in Access to Health Care (REACH) study of access to tuberculosis (TB) treatment, antiretroviral therapy (ART) and maternal health (MH) services in South Africa's public health sector.
resultsProvider acceptability was consistently high across all the three tracer services at 97.6% (ART), 96.6% (TB) and 96.4% (MH). Service acceptability was high only for TB tracer (70.1%). Community acceptability was high for both TB (83.6%) and MH (96.8%) tracers.
conclusionThrough mixed methods, this paper provides a nuanced view of acceptability of health services.
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