BACKGROUND Perinatal depression is a public health problem in low and middle income countries. Although effective psychosocial interventions exist, a major limitation to their scale up is the scarcity of mental health professionals. The aim of this study was to explore the facilitators and barriers to the acceptability of peer volunteers (PVs)-volunteer lay women from the community with shared ...

Empowerment communication in the Corporate Social Responsibility program rural areas is important for designing and implementing community empowerment with support of its program. The research uses a case study method data collection through in-depth interviews, Focus Group Discussions (FGD), documentation, participant observation. selection informants purposive sampling, namely village governm...

Australia's rural hospitals face most of the same issues and challenges faced by metropolitan hospitals. However they also face additional challenges around geographic isolation, their iconic status and role as major employers in local communities, and their close relationship with community based health services. Future opportunities include more formal integration with community service throu...

The obesity rate in China has risen significantly in the past few decades. While a number of causes for the rise in obesity have been explored, little attention has been paid to the role of health insurance per se. This study aims to investigate the impact of health insurance on the risk of obesity in rural China using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). We empl...

Water shortages in rice production represent a formidable challenge for the world’s food, economic, and social security. is most important single component sustainable growth, especially traditional rice-growing areas. Therefore, this study attempts to evaluate improvement of water productivity Northern Iran on basis Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis. This qualitativ...

BACKGROUND Indigenous populations in Latin America have worse health outcomes than their nonindigenous counterparts. Differences in access to and use of biomedical resources may explain some of the observed disparities. Efforts to address these differences could be aided in part by better understanding the socio-medical contexts in which they occur. METHODS We performed a qualitative analysis...