BACKGROUND Home delivery, referring to pregnant women giving birth in the absence of a skilled birth attendant, is a significant contributor to maternal mortality, and is encouragingly reported to be on a decline in the general population in resource limited settings. However, much less is known about home delivery amongst HIV-infected women in sub-Saharan Africa (sSA). We described the prevale...

Context. Information about reasons for delivering at home and newborn care practices in suburban areas of Western Nigeria is lacking, and such information will be useful for policy makers. Objectives. To describe the home delivery and newborn care practices and to assess the reasons for delivering at home. Study Design, Setting, and Subjects. A cross-sectional survey was carried out in the immu...

BACKGROUND Armed conflict and socio-demographic characteristics of internally displaced persons (IDPs) are very important factors that influence the provision of reproductive health (RH) in humanitarian settings. Maternal health education plays a crucial role to overcome the barriers of RH care, reduce home births conducted by traditional birth attendants (TBAs), and improve increasing births i...

promotion of exclusive breastfeeding: teaching good positioning and support from fathers and families     sakkaki m [1] *, khairkhah m [2]     received: 23 aug, 2012 accepted: 21 nov, 2012     abstract   background & aims : breastfeeding has many advantages for both mothers and infants. several factors have negative effect on the duration of breastfeeding, one of them being mode of delivery. ca...

Business-to-Consumer e-commerce has not only increased the demand for package delivery services, such as those offered by Federal Express and UPS, but has also led to the development of new home delivery service models and activities such as grocery delivery services. By bringing goods “the last mile” to the customer’s front door, home delivery is seen by many as the ultimate value-added servic...

We address the Home Health Care Delivery Problem (HHCDP), which is concerned with staff scheduling in the home health care industry. The goal is to schedule health care providers to serve patients at their homes that maximizes the total collected preference scores from visited patients subject to several constraints, such as workload of the health care providers, time budget for each provider a...

In this paper we study a tour-scheduling problem for an attended home delivery with uncertain order requests. The is modelled as two-stage stochastic programming and solved using the multi-cut L-shaped method. Weekly working patterns are generated by means of pricing heuristic. Numerical results on randomly instances show that including weekly rules increases total cost only small amount (up to...

In a B2C e-commerce environment, home delivery service refers to delivering goods from an e-retailer’s storage point to a customer’s home. High rate of failed delivery due to the customer’s absence causes significant loss of logistics efficiency. This paper aims to study innovative solutions to the problem, such as data-related techniques. This paper proposes a methodological approach to use cu...