Background Male involvement in maternal health is recommended as one of the interventions to improve maternal and newborn health. There have been challenges in realising this action, partly due to the position of men in society and partly due to health system challenges in accommodating men. The aim of this study was therefore to evaluate the effect of Home Based Life Saving Skills training by ...

Youth involvement in extracurricular activities reflects both family socialization influences and civic development. Parents can promote such activity through examples set by personal involvement in the community and through reinforcement of their children's interests. Using data (N = 362) from the 9th and 10th grade waves of the Iowa Youth and Families Project (Conger & Elder, 1994), we find t...

OBJECTIVE To assess changes in community pediatrics training from 2002 to 2005. METHODS Pediatric residency program directors were surveyed in 2002 and 2005 to assess resident training experiences in community pediatrics. Program directors reported on the following: provision of training in community settings; inclusion of didactic and practical teaching on community health topics; resident i...

In recent years, and at least partly in response to an emerging crisis in health care provision in many countries, there has been a major shift in attitudes to community involvement. Approaches that saw communities primarily as passive recipients of health care have given way to those which seek to make more of the potential that more active community participation might offer for enhanced acco...

objective: to explore the context, experiences and pathways of seeking abortion care among married women in a minority dominated urban slum community in mumbai city of india. materials and methods: a mixed-method study was conducted using a systematic random sampling method to select 282 respondents from the slum community. one fifth of these womenreported undergoing at least one induced aborti...

Plain English summary Public involvement is required for applied health research funded in the UK. One of the largest funders, the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), makes it clear that it values the knowledge of patients and the public. As a result, there are now many resources to make sure that the public voice is included in decision-making about research. However, there is concer...

this study builds on laufer and hulstijn’s (2001) motivational-cognitive construct of task-induced involvement in learning vocabulary and addresses itself to its strong claim that the depth of processing is the overriding factor in learning words. the paper first re-examines the effect of processing load and then of task type on the initial learning and retention of words. to do so, 60 efl lear...

Community environmental initiatives are set up by community members to promote pro-environmental behaviours in their community. involved these likely behave more pro-environmentally. Yet, the question remains how get involved. Previous findings suggest stronger and communal, but not financial, motives people’s involvement initiatives. The present paper examines whether appeals such or communal ...