BACKGROUND Despite the attention the situation of the Roma in Central and Eastern Europe has received in the context of European Union enlargement, research on their access to health services is very limited, in particular with regard to child health services. METHODS 50 qualitative in-depth interviews with users, providers and policy-makers concerned with child health services in Bulgaria, c...

The World Health Organization recommends four antenatal visits for pregnant women in developing countries. Cash transfers have been used to incentivize participation in health services. We examined whether modest cash transfers for participation in antenatal care would increase antenatal care attendance and delivery in a health facility in Kisoro, Uganda. Twenty-three villages were randomized i...

Pregnancy among secondary school students remains a public health problem and is associated with school dropout as well as poor maternal and child health outcomes. Schools in South Africa no longer expel pregnant students as was the case before 2000. Instead, the government encourages them to remain in class to complete their education, but pregnant students often face stigma, and some drop out...

The Court Report' was a prescription for more competence in child health care, more emphasis on prevention, and the integration of therapeutic and preventive child health services. These represented the underlying philosophy and spirit of Court that was accepted and commended,2 and recently re-affirmed3 as a starting point for alternative patterns of health services for children, after the reje...

BACKGROUND Poor quality of health services and socio-cultural dynamics may severely limit utilization of health services. Facility health committees were established in several states in northern Nigeria to reduce these barriers. The committees were charged with mobilizing communities, improving quality of health services, and promoting utilization of maternal and child health services. This st...

Prevention of mental disorders The recommendations in Setting the agenda for mental health state clearly that the evidence for primary prevention of severe mental illnesses is relatively scarce and that, in general, the effectiveness of primary prevention strategies has been proved only in some areas. I believe that, while waiting for more substantial evidence concerning strategies to prevent s...

INTRODUCTION Linkage of routinely collected data from public services has the potential to improve how local health, education and social care are delivered to children. All mental health services, hospital-based child health services, schools and child protection services which serve the same local area could be more efficient if the design, monitoring, targeting and integration of services we...

Maximum utilization of communication information technology in health services for maternal and children or recognized as telemedicine, is a friction the model providing midwifery care due to demands Covid-19 pandemic situation. There was obstacles its use. The purpose study determine whether factors performance expectancy, effort social influences, facilitating conditions influenced behavioral...