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...

Abstrak: Saat ini kewirausahaan sosial menjadi fenomena menarik dikarenakan berorientasi pada pencapaian tujuan dan tidak mengutamakan perolehan laba serta dapat dijadikan sebagai pendekatan dalam pemberdayaan. Tujuan dari penelitian adalah memberikan kajian tentang proses pemberdayaan keluarga melalui program berbasis lingkungan yang dilakukan oleh salah satu lembaga nonformal. Penelitian meng...

as long as the government in the concept of urban management plays the role of “direct provider” instead of “facilitator” to improve the life’s welfare level and provide a situation for poor societies and particularly informal settlements, its sole result is the increase in the number of open mouths that their dependence on government enlarges per day. therefore the investigation of different g...

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 AND AIMS Parents' empowerment is advocated to promote and preserve an informed and autonomous decision regarding their children' immunization. The scope of this study is to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of an instrument to measure parents' psychological empowerment in their children's vaccination decision and propose a context-specific definition of this construct....

List of boxes Box 1: Gender and micro-finance: contrasting paradigms Box 2: Framework for empowerment Box 3: Underlying vision and essential elements of a gender policy for empowerment Box 4: Financial sustainability and empowerment: potentially positive interlinkages Box 5: Conditions of micro-finance delivery: some access, poverty alleviation and empowerment questions Box 6: Rethinking good p...

Pervasive gendered inequities and norms regarding the subordination of women give Ghanaian men disproportionately more power than women, particularly in relation to sex. We hypothesize that lack of sexual empowerment may pose an important barrier to reproductive health and adoption of family planning methods. Using the 2008 Ghana Demographic Health Survey, we examine the association between wom...

CONTEXT It is generally believed that women's lack of decision-making power may restrict their use of modern contraceptives. However, few studies have examined the different dimensions of women's empowerment and contraceptive use in African countries. METHODS Data came from the latest round of Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 2006 and 2008 in Namibia, Zambia, Ghana and Uganda....

Objective: This study aimed to adapt the Family Empowerment Scale for family caregivers of adults with mental health issues Turkish context. Methods: The data is collected from 1 January 2019 15 April 2020. FES was originally developed by Koren et al.and, Kageyama al. adapted it assess empowerment issues, and they tested its validity reliability. sample comprised 223 whose families patients sta...

Background Chronic nature of thalassemia causes changes in different aspects of life in patients, including their self-efficacy. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of family-centered empowerment program on the self-efficacy of adolescents with Thalassemia major. Methods A quasi-experimental study was performed on adolescents with thalassemia major in 2013 in Bandar Abbas, Iran....