BACKGROUND Many tuberculosis (TB) patients in Indonesia are diagnosed late. We seek to document patient journeys toward TB diagnosis and treatment and factors that influence health care seeking behavior. METHODS TB patients in Jogjakarta municipality (urban) and Kulon Progo district (rural) were recruited from health care facilities participating in the DOTS strategy and health care facilitie...

BACKGROUND In early 2016, we implemented a community-based maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) surveillance using mobile phones to collect, analyze, and use data by village health volunteers (VHV) in Kenge Health Zone (KHZ), in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The objective of this study was to determine the perceptions of households, attitudes of community health volunteers, and ...

BACKGROUND Professionalism is defined as the conceptualization of obligations, attributes, interactions, attitudes, and role behaviors required of professionals in relationship to individual clients and to society as a whole. Professionalism attributes include knowledge, spirit of inquiry, accountability, autonomy, advocacy, innovation and visionary, collaboration and collegiality, and ethics. ...

OBJECTIVES There is a clear need to understand the factors that might prevent and/or facilitate the effective use of HIV treatment as prevention (TasP) at an individual level. This paper reports on findings from the first qualitative study in the UK exploring the acceptability of TasP among gay, bisexual and/or men who have sex with men (MSM) and migrant African communities in Scotland. METHO...

BACKGROUND Human resources (HR) are one of the most important components determining performance of public health system. The aim of this study was to assess adequacy of HR of local public health agencies to meet the needs emerging from health care reforms in Georgia. METHODS We used the Human Resources for Health Action Framework, which includes six components: HR management, policy, finance...

The Activated Iron Process (AIP) technology, which is renamed from the hybrid zero-valent-iron (hZVI) process, is a novel chemical treatment process that has shown great potential in previous laboratory and field bench-scale tests for removing selenium, mercury, and nutrients from the flue-gas-desulfurization wastewater. In this study, a pilot-scale demonstration was conducted to continuously t...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan aplikasi perangkat pembelajaran virtual field trip berbasis ESD. Jenis penelitian yaitu pengembangan produk dengan pengumpulan data diantaranya observasi, wawancara dan Focus Group Discussion (FGD). Data hasil observasi menjadi bahan studi pendahuluan mengetahui ketersediaan di sekolah dasar. Proses FGD dilaksanakan oleh tim pengembang yang terdiri d...

Health workforce includes clinically trained health professionals, health management and support workers. Imbalance in health workforce is a major challenge, as its size and quality positively determine country’s ability to meet its goals of organizing and delivering health services, like immunization coverage, outreach of primary care etc. Unfortunately, India has uneven, inequitable and mal-d...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the gaps in the adoption of crop insurance in Thailand and suggest possible solutions relating to policy support and framework, implementation mechanisms, technology adoption, and awareness amongst farmers. The methodology includes a literature review, interaction with officials, rice experts and insurance experts, and discussion with farmers. A study was ...

BACKGROUND Although disproportionately affected by HIV, sex workers (SWs) remain neglected by efforts to expand access to antiretroviral treatment (ART). In Zimbabwe, despite the existence of well-attended services targeted to female SWs, fewer than half of women diagnosed with HIV took up referrals for assessment and ART initiation; just 14% attended more than one appointment. We conducted a q...