BACKGROUND We wanted to try to account for worker motivation as a key factor that might affect the success of an intervention to improve implementation of health worker practices in eight district hospitals in Kenya. In the absence of available tools, we therefore aimed to develop a tool that could enable a rapid measurement of motivation at baseline and at subsequent points during the 18-month...

The findings of a survey on the use of immunohistochemistry in district general hospitals in England and Wales are reported. Immunohistochemistry is used in most district hospitals, contributes to the accuracy and objectivity of some histopathological diagnoses, and is considered to be generally useful though not without drawbacks. Its expansion is being hindered by lack of funds for reagents a...

Background: Despite a relatively good national case reporting system in Sri Lanka, detailed maps of malaria distribution have not been publicly available. Methods: In this study, monthly records over the period 1995 – 2000 of microscopically confirmed malaria parasite positive blood film readings, at sub-district spatial resolution, were used to produce maps of malaria distribution across the i...

Legislative Representation in a Single-Member versus Multiple-Member District System: The Arizona State Legislature Author(s): Lilliard E. Richardson, Jr., Brian E. Russell, Christopher A. Cooper Source: Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Jun., 2004), pp. 337-344 Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. on behalf of the University of Utah Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3219876 ...

The study concerns the first-hand information gathered during ethnomedicinal surveys in Nasik district, Maharashtra, of plants traditionally used by aborigines and rural folks for the treatment of gynecological, genital and other related aspects. Uses of 25 angiospermic species belonging to 22 population. The paper gives botanical identity, family, local name, collection number and mode of admi...

INTRODUCTION As part of a programme of research aiming to improve the outcomes of traumatically injured children, a multisource healthcare advocacy tool has been developed to allow trauma team members and hospital governance administrators to reflect and to act on complex trauma team-hospital systems interactions. We have termed this tool a Field Assessment Conditioning Tool (FACT). The FACT dr...

The shortage of adequate facilities and qualified staff at district and community level means that tertiary eye care services in Viet Nam have been overburdened by high volumes of patients, not all of whom needed tertiary-level care. In Quang Nam province, an additional challenge is the mountainous terrain, which makes travel very difficult. To help reduce the pressure on tertiary centres and i...