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Helen Schneider is affiliated with the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and has an extensive research profile in the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their work covers numerous subfields including General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Artificial Intelligence, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, as well as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics, including:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Community Health and Development
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • COVID-19 diagnosis using AI

Helen Schneider has contributed to a number of recent papers, reflecting their active involvement in health policy and systems research. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Measures to strengthen primary health-care systems in low- and middle-income countries", 2020, Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • "What role can health policy and systems research play in supporting responses to COVID-19 that strengthen socially just health systems?", 2020, Health Policy and Planning
  • "The Multiple Lenses on the Community Health System: Implications for Policy, Practice and Research", 2021, International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • "Using an equity-based framework for evaluating publicly funded health insurance programmes as an instrument of UHC in Chhattisgarh State, India", 2020, Health Research Policy and Systems
  • "The impact of differing frames on early stages of intersectoral collaboration: the case of the First 1000 Days Initiative in the Western Cape Province", 2020, Health Research Policy and Systems

The publication venues where Helen Schneider frequently publishes include:

  • International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • South African Medical Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Health Policy and Planning
  • BMC Health Services Research

Collaboration is an important aspect of Helen Schneider's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Rafet Sifa
  • Lucia Knight
  • Ulrike Attenberger
  • Fidele Kanyimbu Mukinda
  • Yannik C. Layer

The combination of topics and venues illustrates a research trajectory deeply rooted in global health systems, maternal and child health, and the application of policy research to improve health equity and social justice within healthcare frameworks.

Best Publications

  • Doing health policy analysis: methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges

    Gill Walt;Jeremy Shiffman;Helen Schneider;Susan F Murray

  • A systematic review of task- shifting for HIV treatment and care in Africa

    Mike Callaghan;Nathan Ford;Nathan Ford;Helen Schneider

  • Community health workers and the response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa: tensions and prospects

    Helen Schneider;Helen Schneider;Hlengiwe Hlophe;Dingie van Rensburg

  • Trust and health worker performance: exploring a conceptual framework using South African evidence.

    Lucy Gilson;Natasha Palmer;Helen Schneider

  • Health Systems and Access to Antiretroviral Drugs for HIV in Southern Africa: Service Delivery and Human Resources Challenges

    Helen Schneider;Duane Blaauw;Lucy Gilson;Nzapfurundi Chabikuli

  • The politics of AIDS in South Africa: beyond the controversies

    Didier Fassin;Helen Schneider

  • Applying a framework for assessing the health system challenges to scaling up mHealth in South Africa

    Natalie Leon;Helen Schneider;Emmanuelle Daviaud

  • On the Fault-Line: The Politics of AIDS Policy in Contemporary South Africa

    Helen Schneider

  • Implementing AIDS policy in post-apartheid South Africa.

    Helen Schneider;Joanne Stein

  • The global pendulum swing towards community health workers in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review of trends, geographical distribution and programmatic orientations, 2005 to 2014

    Helen Schneider;Dickson Okello;Uta Lehmann

  • From Community Health Workers to Community Health Systems: Time to Widen the Horizon?

    Helen Schneider;Uta Lehmann

  • Denial and defiance: a socio-political analysis of AIDS in South Africa.

    Helen Schneider;Didier Fassin

  • Lay health workers and HIV programmes: implications for health systems

    Helen Schneider;Uta Lehmann

  • Measures to strengthen primary health-care systems in low- and middle-income countries.

    Etienne V Langlois;Andrew McKenzie;Helen Schneider;Jeffrey W Mecaskey

  • The roles of community health workers in management of non-communicable diseases in an urban township

    Lungiswa P. Tsolekile;Thandi Puoane;Helen Schneider;Naomi S. Levitt

  • Getting to the truth? Researching user views of primary health care

    Helen Schneider;Natasha Palmer

  • A new face for private providers in developing countries: what implications for public health?

    Natasha Palmer;Anne Mills;Haroon Wadee;Lucy Gilson

  • Patterns and implications of medical pluralism among HIV/AIDS patients in rural South Africa.

    M. Moshabela;P. Pronyk;P. Pronyk;N. Williams;H. Schneider

  • Practice and power: a review and interpretive synthesis focused on the exercise of discretionary power in policy implementation by front-line providers and managers

    Lucy Gilson;Helen Schneider;Marsha Orgill

  • 'It makes me want to run away to Saudi Arabia': management and implementation challenges for public financing reforms from a maternity ward perspective.

    Loveday Penn-Kekana;Duane Blaauw;Helen Schneider

  • Mapping the existing body of health policy implementation research in lower income settings: what is covered and what are the gaps?

    Ermin Erasmus;Marsha Orgill;Helen Schneider;Lucy Gilson

  • Hospital utilization and out of pocket expenditure in public and private sectors under the universal government health insurance scheme in Chhattisgarh State, India: Lessons for universal health coverage.

    Sulakshana Nandi;Helen Schneider;Priyanka Dixit

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucy Gilson
Lucy Gilson University of Cape Town
Anne Mills
Anne Mills London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Asha George
Asha George University of the Western Cape
Stephen Birch
Stephen Birch University of Queensland
Ruairi Brugha
Ruairi Brugha Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Didier Fassin
Didier Fassin Institute for Advanced Study
Gill Walt
Gill Walt London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Tanya Doherty
Tanya Doherty South African Medical Research Council
Anthony B. Zwi
Anthony B. Zwi University of New South Wales

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