Items tagged with “Womens Health”
Second Annual Research Symposium: Sierra Leone Health and Biomedical Research Group
Health research in Sierra Leone is currently conducted, managed, and financed by diverse organizations, with very little coordination. Seeking to improve coordination and share knowledge, a group of concerned scientists, physicians, medical students,…
Remarks on the 15th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech on the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development was delivered at the U.S. Department of State on Friday, January 8, 2010. In the speech, Secretary Clinton said that…
Women and Health: Today's Evidence Tomorrow's Agenda
Despite considerable progress in the past decades, societies continue to fail to meet the health care needs of women at key moments of their lives, particularly in their adolescent years and in older age. These are the key findings of the WHO report
Accelerating Sustainable Domestic Health Financing in Africa
This report is a presentation that was given at the 4th Conference of African Ministers of Health (CAMH4), 4 to 8 April 2009, Addis Ababa by Rotimi Sankore, Coordinator Africa Public Health Alliance & 15% Campaign. It discusses the need for African…
Improving Quality of Care and Use of Contraceptives in Senegal
In the 1990s, the government of Senegal implemented a series of policy changes for the provision of family planning services through the public sector. A strategy to provide high quality services through reference centres was adopted. This paper…
Are Birth-preparedness Programmes Effective?
The birth-preparedness package (BPP) promotes active preparation and decision-making for births, including pregnancy/postpartum periods, by pregnant women and their families. This paper describes a district-wide field trial of the BPP implemented…
Behavior change in perinatal care practices among rural women exposed to a women’s group intervention in Nepal
A randomized controlled trial of participatory women's groups in rural Nepal previously showed reductions in maternal and newborn mortality. In addition to the outcome data we also collected previously unreported information from the subgroup of women…
A Conceptual Model for Empowerment of the Female Community Health Volunteers in Nepal
The existing top-down approach to training may not be appropriate to empower community health volunteers to produce a sustainable change in their performance. This paper proposes a conceptual model that relies on Freire’s theory of empowerment…
Increasing Contraceptive Acceptance through Empowerment of Female Community Health Volunteers in Rural Nepal
The purpose of this study was to enhance contraceptive acceptance among currently-married women of reproductive age through empowerment training of female community health volunteers. Seventeen volunteers working in Kakani Village Development Committee…
