Abstract Background Family planning (FP) is a key intervention for preventing unplanned pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and maternal death. Involvement of both women their partners promotes contraceptive acceptance, uptake continuation, couple communication gender-equitable attitude. Partner involvement strategy addressing about 17.5% the unmet needs in FP Kenya. This study assessed prevalence f...

INTRODUCTION Cervical cancer screening and existing health insurance schemes in China fall short of reaching women with prevention and treatment services, especially in rural areas where the disease burden is greatest. We conducted an extended cost-effectiveness analysis (ECEA) to evaluate public financing of HPV vaccination to prevent cervical cancer, adding new dimensions to conventional cost...

BACKGROUND Concerns about appropriate pricing strategies and the high market share of subsidized condoms prompted Population Services International (PSI)/Myanmar to adopt a total market approach (TMA). This article presents data on the size and composition of the Myanmar condom market, identifies inefficiencies and recommends methods for better targeting public subsidy. METHODOLOGY Data on co...

BACKGROUND Some of the Census Enumeration Areas' (CEA) information may help planning the sample of population studies but it can also be used for some analyses that require information that is more difficult to obtain at the individual or household level, such as income. This paper verifies if the income information of CEA can be used as a proxy for household income in a household survey. MET...

BACKGROUND Peru has made great improvements in reducing stunting and child mortality in the past decade, and has reached the Millennium Development Goals 1 and 4. The remaining challenges or missed opportunities for child survival needs to be identified and quantified, in order to guide the next steps to further improve child survival in Peru. METHODS We used the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) to pr...

BACKGROUND Achievement of global health goals will require assessment of progress not only nationally but also for population subgroups. We aimed to assess how the magnitude of socioeconomic inequalities in health changes in relation to different rates of national progress in coverage of interventions for the health of mothers and children. METHODS We assessed coverage in low-income and middl...

BACKGROUND Population health is linked closely to poverty. To assess the effectiveness of health interventions it is critical to monitor the spatial and temporal changes in the health indicators of populations and outcomes across varying levels of poverty. Existing measures of poverty based on income, consumption or assets are difficult to compare across geographic settings and are expensive to...

Background: Overweight and obesity in adults are on the rise around world, contributing significantly to noncommunicable disease deaths disability. Women bear a disproportionate burden of when compared with men, which has negative impact their health children. The objective this study was examine country-level prevalence overweight among women reproductive age sub-Saharan countries. Methods: A ...

Purpose Recent public health policy emphasizes the achievement of healthy aging as average life expectancy increases worldwide. Evidence for from low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) is limited. The purpose this paper to assess prospects its associated factors in Indian context. Design/methodology/approach study was based on a national-level panel survey, Human Development Survey (IHDS) cond...