Facilities for adolescents in our health service

“Three Nooses on Our Head”: The Influence of District Health Reforms on Maternal Health Service Delivery in Vietnam

Background The impact of reorganisation on health services delivery is a recurring issue in every healthcare system. In 2005 Vietnam reorganised the delivery of health services at the district level by splitting preventive, curative, and administrative roles. This qualitative study explored how these reforms impacted on the organisation of maternal health service delivery at district and commun...

Our adolescents--our future.

Public Health Service grants to construct health facilities.

GRANT PROGRAMS designed to stimulate and support the building of health facil¬ ities have grown markedly in terms of both kind and volume of construction aided. In 1946 the first Public Health Service construction grant program, the Hospital Survey and Construction (Hill-Burton) Act, was passed. The initial authorization was $75 million for fiscal year 1948. Until the enactment of the Health Re...

Assessment of primary health care facilities’ service readiness in Nigeria

BACKGROUND Effective delivery of healthcare services requires availability of adequate infrastructure, diagnostic medical equipment, drugs and well-trained medical personnel. In Nigeria, poor funding and mismanagement often characterize healthcare service delivery thereby affecting coverage and quality of healthcare services. Therefore, the state of service delivery in Nigeria's health sector h...

PMTCT Service Uptake Among Adolescents and Adult Women Attending Antenatal Care in Selected Health Facilities in Zimbabwe

BACKGROUND Age-disaggregated analyses of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) program data to assess the uptake of HIV services by pregnant adolescent women are limited but are critical to understanding the unique needs of this vulnerable high-risk population. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of patient-level PMTCT data collected from 2011 to 2013 in 36 health facil...