BACKGROUND By analyzing the perspectives of village health worker/trainers with the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), this study aimed to investigate their level of knowledge of treatment, risks, and prevention of complications of labor and delivery and to evaluate current teaching methods. METHODS Three focus groups of six village health workers/trainers were conducted and divided a...

Knowledge of mosquito dispersal is critical for vector-borne disease control and prevention strategies and for understanding population structure and pathogen dissemination. We determined Aedes aegypti flight range and dispersal patterns from 21 mark-release-recapture experiments conducted over 11 years (1991-2002) in Puerto Rico and Thailand. Dispersal was compared by release location, sex, ag...

This paper examines the impact of access to health facilities and personnel on infant and child mortality in Indonesia. Demographic and Health Survey data are combined with village-level censuses of infrastructure collected by the Central Bureau of Statistics. Because the village-level data are available from two points in time, it is possible to analyse the effects on mortality risks within th...

In the current military environment, village searches are conducted daily. To accomplish a village search task in accordance with orders provided by higher headquarters, the mission leaders must plan and allocate resources (e.g., soldiers, robots, military working dogs, unmanned aerial vehicles) efficiently. The plans these leaders create are based on personal experience and planning data found...

SETTING In Cherrati District, Somali Regional State (SRS), Ethiopia, despite a high burden of tuberculosis (TB), TB control activities are virtually absent. The majority of the population is pastoralist with a mobile lifestyle. TB care and treatment were offered using a 'TB village' approach that included traditional style residential care, community empowerment and awareness raising, provisio...

The village government is currently given lots of new authority and funding from both the central regional governments. Such things aim to increase progress development prosperity communities. Unfortunately, this does not necessarily make governments run according existing laws. Worse, they do progress. Concerning villagers, since enactment Law Number 22 1999, major changes have happened villag...

one of the important problems in earthquake geotechnical engineering is liquefaction phenomenon that happens in loose saturated granular soils. in this study, 11 boreholes from govanjik and dayalar area in downstream of sattarkhan dam collected and evaluated. results of research are showed that with assuming cementation in soils, liquefaction potential is weak to moderate than non-cemented cond...

Cet article analyse un conflit local survenu au sein d’une commune de 5 000 habitants, lié à l’installation, de 2016 à 2018, d’un « village d’insertion » pour 80 migrants roumains précaires. Pour en comprendre les ressorts sociologiques et politiques, il mobilise, dans premier, temps la notion ...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), or simply Corporate Responsibility for those who favour an even broader approach, has become yet another buzzword in an age of sound bites where ideas fall into and out of fashion rapidly. For those who view big business as a continued source of inequality and destruction in the global village, the possibility that CSR may be a temporary trend is far from ...

The world today is said to be a “global village”. However, this village is, rather than a culturally homogeneous community, a world of diverse cultures. In this globalized world, how different cultures interact with each other and with globalizing forces in general is crucial to their survival and to their reinvention. This essay is intended to provide a critical examination of various existing...