Significant changes in the global setting over the course of the last few decades resulted in an increasing prominence for the pursuit of transnational justice and individual accountability. The aftermath of the terrifying attacks on America on September 3. Making deep democratic decentralisation work • Moves towards democratic decentralisation in India • Elementary schools: Cake for the rich, ...

Employing total consumption as a household-level welfare indicator with which to measure poverty has often been criticised because it is felt that such an indicator does not account for differing access to, and cost of, publicly provided services. This paper discusses when and how adjustments can be made to expenditures derived from household surveys so as to reflect the consumption of basic se...

background: in some primary health care settings, even where the health services are not available, provisions are not made to ensure continuity of care. this study aimed to determine the availability and level of continuity of care for maternal health services in the primary health centers (phcs) in nnewi, nigeria. methods: this was a cross‑sectional survey. using multistage sampling technique...

As an important link in the development of urban-rural integration, equalization basic public services urban and rural areas is foundation integration aspect improving quality life residents. To understand level areas, it necessary to reasonably measure services. This article constructs evaluation system for from four dimensions education, social security, medical health, infrastructure. The en...

objective: to understand the knowledge and services of informal providers and to explore their role in addressing the human resource gap in uttar pradesh, india, within the context of maternal health. materials and methods: the study is exploratory in nature, conducted in four blocks of four districts of uttar pradesh state, india. semi-structured interviews were conducted with 114 informal pro...