BACKGROUND Improving end-of-life care is an important international issue. Recently Nova Scotia researchers conducted a mortality follow-back survey to provide a population-based description of care provided to adults during their last 30 days of life as perceived by knowledgeable bereaved family members. Here we describe the relationship between the location where the decedent received the maj...

This study examined the role of Micro Waqf Bank in empowering women micro-entrepreneurs. research used a mixed-method with an explanatory design. Quantitatively, this examines effect joint responsibility system, financing, and mentoring on growth micro-enterprises business. The sample was 200 micro-entrepreneurs using purposive sampling technique. Quantitative data analysis performed Structural...

OBJECTIVE To develop a tool known as the Birth Unit Design Spatial Evaluation Tool (BUDSET), to assess the optimality of birth unit design. BACKGROUND The space provided for childbirth influences the physiology of women in labor. Optimal birth spaces are likely to enable women to have physiologically normal labor and birth. The measurement of an optimal birth space is currently impossible, be...

We have recently completed doctoral research on the reconstruction of paraplegic men’s and women’s vocational trajectories in French-speaking Switzerland. Based three female informants’ life narratives, we analyse issues gendered guidance, pathways identities people’s courses. shape some emancipating experience models discourses about action, which empower informants their pathways. Our objecti...

BACKGROUND Idjwi, an island of approximately 220,000 people, is located in eastern DRC and functions semi-autonomously under the governance of two kings (mwamis). At more than 8 live births per woman, Idjwi has one of the highest total fertility rates (TFRs) in the world. Rapid population growth has led to widespread environmental degradation and food insecurity. Meanwhile family planning servi...