Delivery in a medical institution promotes child survival and reduces the risk of maternal mortality. Many initiatives under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) focus on increasing the institutional deliveries. This study describes the trends in choosing place of delivery in Nanded district at the end of the first phase of the mission. Key informants were interviewed to document the initia...

ABSTRACT Objective: to validate the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice survey on Nursing assistance during delivery childbirth based concepts of Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory recommendations National Guidelines for Assistance Normal Delivery. Method: this is a methodological study in which was elaborated, validated regarding content appearance. Data collection carried out between mo...

This paper examines the trends in utilization of five indicators of reproductive and child health services, namely, childhood immunization, medical assistance at delivery, antenatal care, contraceptive use and unmet need for contraception, by wealth index of the household in India and two disparate states, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. The data from three rounds of the National Family and Heal...

BACKGROUND Ghana's current Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) of 319 per 100,000 live births makes achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal of 70 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births or less by 2030 appear to be illusory. Skilled assistance during childbirth is a critical strategy to reducing maternal mortality, yet the proportion of deliveries taking place within health facilities where ...

OBJECTIVE An enhanced employee assistance program (EAP) intervention was developed that delivers comprehensive EAP outreach services to all employees who may have alcohol-related and other workplace problems; standard EAP materials traditionally targeted at white men were enhanced to include women and minorities. This study evaluates whether the enhanced EAP intervention increased EAP utilizati...

Background The Community Mine Continuation Agreement Middle (CMCA) and South Fly Health Program (the Health Program) is a partnership for improving health service delivery in remote Papua New Guinea (PNG). The Health Program is delivered by a private contractor working in partnership with existing health service providers to improve service delivery using existing government systems, where poss...

policy and research. Here, I focus on two. First, delivery of social service programs is very different from delivery of cash assistance programs. Whereas welfare or food stamp benefits can be delivered directly to recipients through the mail or an electronic benefits transfer (EBT) card, most social services cannot be mailed or delivered to an individual at home. Instead, clients typically vis...

Abstract The figure of the sexual assistant is increasingly demanded as a right in disabilities field. This requires debate, adaptation to characteristics countries and cultures, well people with intellectual developmental disabilities. study presents work carried out representatives Spanish organizations develop proposal for support staff behavior. Together rights perspective, this aligned Sup...