Family, the basic unit of society, all over the world has been undergoing many fundamental changes and profound transformation due to comprehensive socio-economic development and technological advancement. This paper is a humble attempt to examine the factors affecting changes in family pattern, age at marriage, practice of dowry and divorce in family life of Bangladesh. The major factors affec...

background: nowadays, the concept of family planning has been detached from the population control and it is expressed as an essential element in women’s reproductive rights, empowering them and promoting their status in society. family planning services have an important role in fertility decisions using contraception methods in women. this study was carried out to explore the experience of wo...

M any health care organizations, including government and private agencies, have em braced the goal of providing patientand family-centered care. The thrust of this model of care is to involve patients and families in their own health care decisions and treatments. The Institute of Medicine (2001) recognized the value of this model in identifying patient-centered care as one of six points for h...

Growing evidence supports the inclusion of patient empowerment as a key ingredient of care for patients with chronic conditions. In recent years, several studies based on patient empowerment, have been carried out in different European countries in the context of general practice and primary care to improve management of chronic diseases. These studies have shown good results of the care model,...

Efforts to improve the degree of public health are carried out by applying various approaches, including involving potential community in disease management with a family approach. The purpose this study was analyse effect implementing empowerment models on increasing knowledge about healthy families Nanggalo Padang. research design Quasy Experiment research, one group pretest and posttest desi...