Overcoming Rooming-In Barriers: A Survey on Mothers' Perspectives

A rooming-in program for mothers and newborns.

This report describes a rooming-in program based on allocation of resources to patients in accord with their health needs. It outlines the advantages of having the healthy infant kept with the mother continually during the puerperium. This promotes easier psychological adaptation of mother and infant, reduces the incidence of cross-infection in the hospital, encourages breast-feeding, and pav...

Overcoming Barriers in Unhealthy Settings

We investigated the phenomenon of sustained health-supportive behaviors among long-haul commercial truck drivers, who belong to an occupational segment with extreme health disparities. With a focus on setting-level factors, this study sought to discover ways in which individuals exhibit resiliency while immersed in endemically obesogenic environments, as well as understand setting-level barrier...

Overcoming Barriers to Family Planning through Integration: Perspectives of HIV-Positive Men in Nyanza Province, Kenya

This study explored barriers to and facilitators of using family planning services among HIV-positive men in Nyanza Province, Kenya. From May to June 2010, in-depth interviews were conducted with 30 men receiving care at 15 HIV clinics. The key barriers to the use of family planning included concerns about side effects of contraceptives, lack of knowledge about contraceptive methods, myths and ...

OvercOming barriers with prOducer OrganizatiOns

rising incomes are likely to continue to put pressure on food demand. International prices for most agricultural commodities are set to remain at 2010 levels or higher, at least for the next decade (OECD-FAO 2010). Small scale producers in many developing countries were not able to reap the benefits of high food prices during the 2007-2008 food price crises. And yet, this upward food price tren...

Overcoming Barriers and Unlocking Potentials