Mozambique

Republic of Mozambique

Mobile Client - Application Case: Mozambique

The major rivers in Mozambique were affected in the last years by very large floods. These natural and humanitarian hazards led to the intervention of international help organizations. During the practical application of the rescue actions, it was proved that often maps and geographical information was not up-to-date or just not available in the moment that they were needed. The objective of th...

Caesarean section rates in Mozambique

BACKGROUND The Caesarean section (C-section) rate is used as an indicator for availability and utilization of life-saving obstetric services. The purpose of the present study was to explore changes in C-section rates between 1995 and 2011 by area, place of delivery and maternal socioeconomic factors in Mozambique. METHODS Cross-sectional data from the Demographic and Health Surveys conducted ...

Antenatal care in Maputo, Mozambique.

Mozambique, within its plan for overall social and economic change, has given priority to primary health care with a principal focus on maternal and child health. In 1980 an antenatal control form was introduced into all Maputo's antenatal clinics to monitor pregnancies and to help direct specialist care to mothers at greatest risk--a strategy known by WHO as the "risk approach." In this study ...

Mauritania, Kenya and Mozambique Compared

This paper conceptualises foreign aid as a geopolitical form of rent in order to help distinguish the conditions under which aid is detrimental to sustained economic recovery from those where it is beneficial. Foreign aid shares with natural resource rent and contrived (i.e., government monopoly) rent the property of being a large revenue stream that is detached from the economic activity that ...