Items tagged with “Academic Research”
Community-based interventions for diarrhoeal diseases and acute respiratory infections in Nepal
Acute diarrhoeal diseases and acute respiratory infections (ARIs) are the most common causes of child mortality worldwide. Safe, effective and inexpensive solutions are available for prevention and control, but they do not reach needy communities.…
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…
Marital Changes and Fertility Differences among Women and Men in Urban and Rural Mali
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between types of marriage celebration, time to cohabitation of spouses and age at first birth. The data are derived from a national survey conducted in Mali (Bamako, other urban and rural areas)…
The Potential Impact of Community-Based Distribution Programmes on Contraceptive Uptake in Resource-poor Settings: Evidence from Ethiopia
Community-based reproductive health services (CBRHS) have been in implementation in Ethiopia for over a decade. This paper assesses the impact of such programmes on contraceptive use. The data were obtained from the 2000 Ethiopian Demographic and…
Sustainability and factors affecting the success of community-based reproductive health programs in rural Northwest Ethiopia
Various community-based reproductive health programs (CBRHPs) were initiated in many developing countries but their effectiveness has not been evaluated as much as needed. A comparative cross sectional study was carried out in February 2002 among women…
