Background. National response mechanisms, including lockdown regulations and financial and food aid, have exacerbated adversity and provided support. They have also exposed existing inequalities, with individuals and families able to cope and recover to varying degrees. Families with young children, spec...
Contexte et objectif. Avec une grande majorité d’habitants sans couverture-maladie, l’inaccessibilité aux soins pour manque d’argent est un problème réel parmi les habitants de Kinshasa en raison des paiements directs. La présente étude a évalué le coût direct de la maladie du point de vue...
Across South Sudan, long before the global COVID-19 pandemic emerged, communities
have created systems and structures to control the spread of epidemics and infectious
diseases. South Sudanese people have extensive knowledge of infectious diseases and
experience of organizing responses to epidemics du...
Family caregivers’ role in cancer and stroke care is overly burdensome. Studies have considered burden and predictors of burden
but the influence of caregiving burden on health - promoting behaviours among cancer and stroke family caregivers in Nigeria
is scarce. The purpose of this study was to dete...
The “One Primary Health Care (PHC) per Ward” policy is an important health care component for achieving health for all. This
study assesses the functionality, successes and challenges in the implementation of ‘one PHC per ward’ policy in Ekiti State,
Nigeria. In-depth and key informant interview...
To evaluate the oral health-related knowledge and practices of trainee Community Health Officers. A cross-sectional descriptive
study conducted using total population purposive sampling method with a self-administered questionnaire on 70 community
health officer’s trainees at the centre for training ...
Background: The access to quality maternal health information amongst pregnant women plays an important role in determining woman’s health behaviour during pregnancy. Yet, access to maternal health information remains a major challenge in Tanzanian rural communities especially for pregnant women leadin...
Background: In developing countries, the lack of accessible, affordable and acceptable orthodox care makes a significant proportion of the populace patronize the nearby available and cheap traditional birth attendants (TBAs) that share similar local custom and tradition. Although there are widely divergi...
