Group-based microfinance for collective empowerment: a systematic review of health impacts

Group-based microfinance for collective empowerment: a systematic review of health impacts

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact on health-related outcomes, of group microfinance schemes based on collective empowerment. METHODS We searched the databases Social Sciences Citation Index, Embase, MEDLINE, MEDLINE In-Process, PsycINFO, Social Policy & Practice and Conference Proceedings Citation Index for articles published between 1 January 1980 and 29 February 2016. Articles reporting on hea...

Impacts of Herbal Medicines on Hot Flash: A Systematic Review

Background: the most common symptoms experienced by women are Hot flashes are around the time of menopause. Many women are interested in herbal medicines because of fear of side effect of Hormone therapy. Objective: In this study, we seek to assess the effectiveness of herbal medicine on the recurrence of hot flash in menopausal women. Methods: The database of MEDLINE, Scopus, and the Co...

Review Article A systematic review on empowerment for healthy nutrition in health promotion

Objective: The present review aimed to identify and synthesize studies that used an empowerment approach within the field of healthy nutrition. Design: A systematic review was conducted. Studies were identified by database searching (PubMed, PsycINFO, Web of Science and Psyndex). Searching, selecting and reporting were done according to the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic revie...

Role of Microfinance Institutions in Women Empowerment

The present study titled “Role of Microfinance Institutions in Women Empowerment” was conducted in Punjab state of India with the objective to study the role played by microfinance institutions in empowering women. The study was conducted with the scientific approach i.e deductive approach & inductive approach and the study found that the availability of basic services to the members was consid...

Effectiveness of Web-based interventions on Patient Empowerment: systematic review