non-communicable disease continues to be an important public health problem in india, being responsible for a major proportion of mortality and morbidity. demographic changes, changes in the lifestyle along with increased rates of urbanization are the major reasons responsible for the tilt towards the non-communicable diseases. in india, there is no regular system for collecting data on non-com...

Read online: Scan this QR code with your smart phone or mobile device to read online. The Kenya Government’s Health Sector Strategic Plan for 2005 to 2010, whose theme was ‘Reversing the Trends’, introduced six health service delivery levels and gave prominence to community-based services at level 1. Community-based primary healthcare services are aimed at empowering Kenyan households and commu...

INTRODUCTION Despite advances in the management of sickle cell disease, gaps still exist in the training of primary healthcare professionals for monitoring patients with the disease. OBJECTIVE To assess the perception of community healthcare workers about the care and monitoring of patients with sickle cell disease after an educational intervention. METHOD This exploratory, descriptive, and...

It is important for occupational health to justify the impact of health promotion programs on job satisfaction, which is associated with work-related outcomes. The aim of this study is to estimate the effects of lifestyle modification activity implemented by the community on job satisfaction, and to analyze the factors which contributed to the improvement of workers' job satisfaction. A lifesty...

introduction crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf) is a severe infectious disease that is not endemic in the united arab emirates (uae). case presentation we report two cases of confirmed cchf diagnosed in dubai, uae, during hajj season 2010. both patients presented with an acute history of high-grade fever, skin rash, and hematemesis. conclusions in spite of maximal supportive measures and in...

BACKGROUND Using opinion leaders to accelerate the dissemination of evidence-based public health practices is a promising strategy for closing the gap between evidence and practice. Network interventions (using social network data to accelerate behavior change or improve organizational performance) are a promising but under-explored strategy. We aimed to use mobile phone technology to rapidly a...

OBJECTIVES To reveal the equity of health workforce distribution in urban community health service (CHS), and to provide evidence for further development of community health service in China. METHODS A community-based, cross-sectional study was conducted in China from September to December 2011. In the study, 190 CHS centers were selected from 10 provinces of China via stratified multistage c...

BACKGROUND Despite being legally available in India since 1971, barriers to safe and legal abortion remain, and unsafe and/or illegal abortion continues to be a problem. Community health workers have been involved in improving access to health information and care for maternal and child health in resource poor settings, but their role in facilitating accurate information about and access to saf...

Health policymakers in many countries are looking at ways of increasing health care coverage by scaling up the deployment of community health workers. In this commentary, we describe the rationale for the UK to learn from Brazil's scaled-up Community Health Worker primary care strategy, starting with a pilot project in North Wales.

Reviewer (Rajendra Karkee) This article is well written but discusses the broad areas in maternal and newborn care practices, not only improving communication method but about perceived benefits of interventions. In that sense, title should be modified. We have modified the title to reflect use of mobile technology by VHTs to support pregnant women and newborns in lines 1-2 " Use of mobile phon...