BACKGROUND Knowledge about the relation between user involvement in the provision of assistive technology and outcomes of assistive technology use is a prerequisite for the development of efficient service delivery strategies. However, current knowledge is limited, particularly from low-income countries where affordability is an issue. The objective was therefore to explore the relation between...

BACKGROUND Despite effective treatments and preventive measures for the major causes of child illness and death in less wealthy nations, child mortality remains high in resource-poor settings due in part to ineffective health service delivery models. METHODS The Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project is a longitudinal community trial of alternative organizational strategies for...

Live media services in mobile environments are fetching more essential with the explosion of technologies. Live Media streaming, in particular, is a promising technology for providing services such as live news clips, live sports. To avoid service interruption when the users keep moving, proper data management strategies must be engaged. In an earlier paper, the ideas and benefits of two-level ...

BACKGROUND Reduction of maternal mortality is a global priority particularly in developing countries including Ethiopia where maternal mortality ratio is one of the highest in the world. The key to reducing maternal mortality ratio and improving maternal health is increasing attendance by skilled health personnel throughout pregnancy and delivery. However, delivery service is significantly lowe...

nowadays, the awareness of service firms’ managers about the crucial role of customers in the success or failure of their business has increased. this has led them to this fact that the best strategy for surviving in the marketplace is encouraging customers’ prosocial behaviors in service delivery process. reasonably, one of the best strategies to encourage customers toward these behaviors is s...

BACKGROUND Despite the need for a reduction in levels of childhood exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) being a recognised public health goal, the delivery of ETS preventive care in child health service settings remains a largely unstudied area. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of ETS preventive care in child health services; differences in the provision of car...

PURPOSE Throughout the world, people with a disability who live in rural and remote areas experience difficulty accessing a range of community-based services including speech-, physio- and occupational therapy. This paper draws on information gathered from carers and adults with a disability living in a rural area in New South Wales (NSW), Australia to determine the extent to which people livin...

OBJECTIVE To qualitatively explore the information and service needs of young adults (YAs) with chronic pain to inform the development of a web-based chronic pain self-management program. METHODS A convenience sample of YAs (n=17; aged 18 to 29 y) with chronic pain was recruited from 2 adult tertiary care multidisciplinary chronic pain clinics in Ontario. Interdisciplinary health care profess...

Recent years have witnessed a new video delivery paradigm: smartrouter-based video delivery network, which is enabled by smartrouters deployed at users’ homes, together with the conventional video servers deployed in the datacenters. Recently, ChinaCache, a large content delivery network (CDN) provider, and Youku, a video service provider using smartrouters to assist video delivery, announced t...

Contraceptive implants offer promising opportunities for addressing the high and growing unmet need for modern contraceptives in sub-Saharan Africa. Marie Stopes International (MSI) offers implants as one of many family planning options. Between 2008 and 2012, MSI scaled up voluntary access to implants in 15 sub-Saharan African countries, from 80,041 implants in 2008 to 754,329 implants in 2012...