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Strengthening the home-to-facility continuum of newborn and child health care through mHealth: Evidence from an intervention in rural Malawi
mHealth Newborn and child health Home-to-facility continuum of care
2015/7/28
This paper assesses the impact of a mobile health (mHealth) project on uptake of home-based care for newborn and child health, and investigates the extent to which uptake of home-based care resulted i...
Analysis of demographic and health survey to measure poverty of household in Rwanda
Clumping millennium goal Odds ratio Poverty reduction
2015/7/28
The use of the asset index in poverty targeting is a modern technique. We used the principal component analysis (PCA) technique in order to create the asset index. Then the asset index was used to ass...
Improving care-seeking for facility-based health services in a rural, resource-limited setting: Effects and potential of an mHealth project
mHealth Care-seeking Maternal health
2015/7/28
The aim of this paper was to investigate the impact of a toll-free hotline and mobile messaging service on care-seeking behaviors. Due to the low uptake of the services, the treatment on the treated e...
Fostering the use of quasi-experimental designs for evaluating public health interventions: insights from an mHealth project in Malawi
Evaluation Quasi- experimental design Malawi
2015/7/28
The evidence base to support the growing field of mHealth is relatively nascent, with most studies lacking the level of rigor needed to inform scale up of interventions. This paper investigates the im...
Leveraging mobile technology to reduce barriers to maternal, newborn and child health care: a contribution to the evidence base
Mobile technology Maternal Newborn and Child health care
2015/7/28
Leveraging mobile technology to reduce barriers to maternal, newborn and child health care: a contribution to the evidence base.
Determinants of the Recent Rise in Childhood Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys, 1990 – 2003
Kenya Child mortality determinants
2015/7/27
Childhood mortality rates in Kenya increased in the 1990s and early 2000s. Evidence from Kenya Demographic Health Survey (KDHS) data shows increase in under-5 mortality rate by 26 percent from 91 in 1...
The Effect of Socio-demographic Factors on the Utilization of Maternal Health Care Services in Uganda
Utilization Maternal Health Care services Clinic
2015/7/27
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of demographic and socio-economic factors on the utilization of maternal health care services using the 2006 Uganda Demographic Health Survey. Three...
The effects of household assets inequality and conflict on population health in Sudan
Africa Sudan Health inequalities
2015/7/27
We explored the effects on health of both household asset inequality and political armed conflict in Sudan. Using the 2010 Sudan household survey, we evaluated the role of both household asset distrib...
Social capital,civic engagement,and self-rated health in Ghana
Social capital Community organizations Voluntary associations Self-rated health Sub-Saharan Africa
2015/7/24
This study uses data from southern Ghana to examine whether higher stocks of social capital through participation in civic groups matter for self-rated health. Drawing on social capital, the influence...
Gender and HIV-related discrimination in the health sector in Nigeria
Discrimination Gender Health sector HIV/AIDS Lagos PLWHA Socio-economic status
2015/7/22
This study explored the influence of gender on HIV-related discrimination in health care facilities in Lagos state from the perspectives of people living with HIV/AIDS. It hypothesized that women were...
Gender-Role Attitudes and Reproductive Health Communication among Female Adolescents in South Nyanza,Kenya
Gender-Role Attitudes Reproductive Health Communication Female Adolescents South Nyanza Kenya
2015/7/21
In this paper, we use data from three districts of Nyanza Province in Kenya to examine gender-role attitudes and reproductive health communication among adolescent females aged 12-19 years. We test fo...
The Impact of Access to Health Services on Infant and Child Mortality in Rural Uganda
Health Services Infant and Child Mortality Rural Uganda
2015/7/20
This paper examines the impact of access to health facilities on infant and child mortality in Uganda. Using the proportional hazard model, the paper shows that access to health centersaffects childho...
The seminar brought together thirty population specialists, medical and public-health researchers, bio-ethicists, and policy makers in order to contribute to the sciencepolicy dialogue by clarifying e...
International Seminar on The Health,Social and Economic Consequences of Unsafe Abortion
Health Social Economic Unsafe Abortion
2015/6/26
The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Abortion, in collaboration with the Population Council’s Mexico office, held a seminar on “The Health, Social and Economic Consequences of Unsafe Abortion” in San Juan de...
International Seminar on Pathways to Health:How intermediary life conditions mediate or modify early life effects
International Seminar Pathways to Health intermediary life conditions mediate modify early life
2015/6/26
Adverse early life conditions have lasting effects on old-age health and mortality. Exposure to disease, nutritional deprivation, or adverse socioeconomic conditions early in life, as early as in the ...