Are Free Maternity Services Completely Free of Costs?

Examining the Implementation of the Free Maternity Services Policy in Kenya: A Mixed Methods Process Evaluation

Background Kenya introduced a free maternity policy in 2013 to address the cost barrier associated with accessing maternal health services. We carried out a mixed methods process evaluation of the policy to examine the extent to which the policy had been implemented according to design, and positive experiences and challenges encountered during implementation.   Methods We conducted a mixed met...

On Free Products of Completely Regular Semigroups

The free product CR S i of an arbitrary family of disjoint completely simple semigroups fS i g i2I , within the variety CR of completely regular semigroups, is described by means of a theorem generalizing that of Ka dourek and Poll ak for free completely regular semigroups. A notable consequence of the description is that all maximal subgroups of CR S i are free, except for those in the factors...

Costs of publicly provided maternity services in Rosario, Argentina.

OBJECTIVE This study estimates the costs of maternal health services in Rosario, Argentina. MATERIAL AND METHODS The provider costs (US$ 1999) of antenatal care, a normal vaginal delivery and a caesarean section, were evaluated retrospectively in two municipal hospitals. The cost of an antenatal visit was evaluated in two health centres and the patient costs associated with the visit were eva...

determination of maximal singularity free zones in the workspace of parallel manipulator

due to the limiting workspace of parallel manipulator and regarding to finding the trajectory planning of singularity free at workspace is difficult, so finding a best solution that can develop a technique to determine the singularity-free zones in the workspace of parallel manipulators is highly important. in this thesis a simple and new technique are presented to determine the maximal singula...

On Completely Free Elements in Finite Fields