background and objectives: informal payment in the health settings is a significant challenge facing the health system, with consequences such as inequity in access to healthcare services, distrust to health care system, and dissatisfied customers. detailed identification of the nature of the problem is perquisite to developing relevant overcoming strategies. given that, this study aimed at pro...

A review of palliative care policies and bereavement support practices in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan demonstrated 4 challenges: questions over providing universal versus targeted support; a lack of clear evidence driving service delivery; informal or no risk assessment; and limited or no evaluation of services. Bridging the gaps between the policy and practi...

A prospective methodology was used to explore predictors of sexual assault disclosure among college women, identify who women tell about sexual victimization, and examine the responses of informal support providers (N = 374). Women most often confided in a female peer. Increased coping via seeking emotional support, strong attachments, and high tendency to disclose stressful information predict...

Drawing on 32 face-to-face interviews with mothers and childcare providers in Latvia, this paper examines the mundane mobilities. We argue that attention to mobilities reveals crucial arrangements of rhythms. Moving from places, around homes children are central provision childcare. These expressed temporal personal rhythms, continuities, disruptions. Mundane link locations between family care ...

While the tech giants are using privatisation to present themselves as providers of solutions global problems, digitalisation is creating new forms transnational activism. Global unions emerging players in this contest, helping build counter power at both local and level. Through a comparison use digital technology two case studies Africa involving different article demonstrates how can, throug...

This paper analyses the qualitative performance of microfinance services in Urban Punjab as perceived by beneficiaries. The success achieving its social objectives, effectiveness systems, role HR and ultimate impact it has on customers been taken into consideration. For this, were asked to fill questionnaires a comparison formal informal service providers was made. factor analysis technique fol...

BACKGROUND The growing popularity of emergency contraceptives (ECs) among urban youth in Sub-Saharan Africa is accompanied by debates on morality and health. This study was situated in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and aimed to explore how these debates affect the way in which the product is promoted at a national level, how it is dispensed by service providers, and how young people access, purchase, a...

OBJECTIVE To present a tool to analyse the design of support plans for informal care from a gender perspective, using the plans in Andalusia and the United Kingdom as case studies. METHODOLOGY A tool was drawn up to analyse gender mainstreaming and care-giving models involved in the documents. In the gender mainstreaming aspect, a symbolic dimension (gender mainstreaming in the plan's theoret...

This study examined whether formal care services delivered to frail older people's homes in France and Israel substitute for or complement informal support. The two countries have comparable family welfare systems but many historical, cultural and religious differences. Data for the respondents aged 75 or more years at the first wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHA...