OBJECTIVES New Zealand has a unique tool, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the Treaty of Waitangi, for addressing health disparities. Indigenous Māori have compromised health status compared to other groups. This paper investigates ways in which public health units (PHUs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) use Te Tiriti o Waitangi in service delivery to Māori. DESIGN A nationwide telephone survey...

fundamentally, public services must be of high quality so as to satisfy the wants and needs of the beneficiaries. but it’s worrisome to discover that in uganda, public services provided are of poor quality due to unethical behaviors and wanting leadership. the purpose of this study is to show that transformational leadership can advance ethical culture to spur provision of quality services. a r...

Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data could potentially inform optimal strategies to reach women having unmet need with contraceptive services through integrated service delivery. Using 2010-11 DHS data from Nepal, Senegal, and Uganda, we estimate the proportion of married or cohabitating women of reproductive age (MWRA) having unmet need for family planning (FP) who have accessed selected h...

Optimising government operations and providing eGovernemt services has assumed a major role for reducing government expenditure as well as tackling demographic challenges in times of financial crises and resource shortages on different levels. However, re-organising public administrations, introducing IT-Systems support, and improving their service delivery is highly complex as their operations...

From 2012 to 2016, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, provided support for countries to conduct small-scale demonstration projects for the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine, with the aim of determining which human papillomavirus vaccine delivery strategies might be effective and sustainable upon national scale-up. This study reports on the operational costs and cost determinants of diff...

Emergent content-oriented networks prompt Internet service providers (ISPs) to evolve and take major responsibility for content delivery. Numerous content items and varying content popularities motivate interdependence between peering ISPs to elaborate their content caching and sharing strategies. In this paper, we propose the concept of peering for content exchange between interdependent ISPs ...

BACKGROUND Globally, there are increasing efforts to improve maternal health outcomes including the reduction in maternal mortality rates. Improved access to skilled care utilisation during pregnancy and delivery has been one of the strategies employed to improve maternal health outcomes. In Kenya, more than half of the women deliver without the assistance of a skilled attendant and this has co...

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