BACKGROUND Sex and gender can interact to contribute to differences in morbidity and mortality between men and women. To detect such differences is an important issue for health policy planners when designing programmes for the provision of healthcare services for the whole population. Our aim was to study differences between men and women in the use of Primary Health Care (PHC) resources, taki...

Mobile health (mHealth) solutions can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare services delivered by Primary Healthcare (PHC) workers in rural communities in developing countries. However, a host of barriers can hinder the success of new mHealth implementations including low tech-nology literacy levels and failure to communicate the benefits of the solution for all stakeholders. T...

CONTEXT Exposure of undergraduate medical students to general practice and community healthcare services is common practice in the international medical curricula. Nevertheless, proponents of the hospital and biotechnology based paradigm, which is still dominant within the medical academic environment, question both the scope and the setting of this training procedure. Regarding the latter, the...

The urban population in our country is increasing rapidly and represents the 2-3-4-5 syndrome. It estimated that by 2031, there would be about 600 million people living India. health of poor considerably worse off than middle high income groups maybe even rural population. Even after more 40 years Alma Ata’s declaration main focus on provision Primary Healthcare based principles social inclusio...

background: cardiovascular disease is a major cause of death throughout the world. the aim of this study was to as­sess the prevalence of overweight/obesity, central obesity, hypertension and dyslipidemia, as well as dietary factors contribut­ing to the development of dyslipidemia among middle-aged women. methods: the research design of the present study was a population-based cross-sectional s...

Background: Birth preparedness and complication readiness (BP&CR) are strategies to reduce the three levels of delays contributing high maternal mortality morbidity in developing countries. Knowledge BP CR among healthcare providers, especially Primary Health Care (PHC), is poor, counselling on during antenatal care visits not routinely done most facilities Northern Nigeria. It is, therefor...

BACKGROUND Morbidity, use of healthcare and medication use have been reported to vary across groups of migrants and according to the different phases of migration, but little is known about children with immigrant background. In this study, we investigate whether the immigrant children's age of arrival predicts differences in usage of primary healthcare (PHC) and in use of prescribed medication...

BACKGROUND Hypertension is a universal risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in both the ageing and obese populations and patients must be literate in hypertension health issues to participate actively in the management of their disease. Little research has been done to investigate hypertension health literacy levels among South Africans. AIM To develop a Hypertension Heath L...