BACKGROUND India launched a national conditional cash transfer program, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), aimed at reducing maternal mortality by promoting institutional delivery in 2005. It provides a cash incentive to women who give birth in public health facilities. This paper studies the extent of program uptake, reasons for participation/non participation, factors associated with non uptake of...

BACKGROUND Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), female health volunteers working at village level have become an integral component of National Health Mission (NHM) in India in the past two decades. Mitanin (meaning female friend in local dialect), a precursor of ASHA, play an indispensable role in early detection of health related problems and are helping in improving overall community h...

A lthough the etiology and nature of central auditory processing disorders (CAPD) remain unresolved (ASHA, 1992; Musiek, Gollegly, & Ross, 1985), performance deficits associated with this complex group of disorders are well documented. Children with CAPD present deficits in auditory perception and auditory-language processing (Katz, 1992; Keith, 1983; Willeford & Burleigh, 1985). In addition to...

Abstract. Biadgligne A, Gobezie T, Mohammed Feleke E. 2022. Estimation of carbon stock and emission community forests in Eastern Amhara, Ethiopia. Asian J For 6: 74-82. Carbon resulting from deforestation forest degradation contributes to climate change. Halting is, therefore, one strategy mitigate the changing climate. As global market develops, an opportunity halt can be contributed by as a w...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) on post-stroke dysphagia. METHODS Subacute (<3 months), unilateral hemispheric stroke patients with dysphagia were randomly assigned to the conventional dysphagia therapy (CDT), rTMS, or NMES groups. In rTMS group, rTMS was performed at 100% ...

Este artículo de reflexión aborda aspectos que dan cuenta la complejidad en el planteamiento objetivos torno a los marcos abordaje vocal contemporáneos. Se plantea selección y redacción para intervención voz holística ecléctica, desde ella, necesidad incorporar modelo CIF las recomendaciones ASHA desarrollo centrados persona, tanto corto como largo plazo. propone utilización del método análisis...