BACKGROUND The benefits of male partner involvement in antenatal care (ANC) and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) for maternal and infant health outcomes have been well recognised. However, in many sub-Saharan African settings, male involvement in these services remains low. Previous research has suggested written invitation letters as a way to promote male partner invol...

Indonesia is one of the countries affected by coronavirus pandemic, which has taken too many lives. The pandemic forces us to continue wear masks daily, especially when working break chain spread coronavirus. Before face recognition for attendance used entire as input data, so results were accurate. However, during this all employees use masks, including attendance, can reduce level accuracy us...

A retrospective case-control study was conducted to investigate the risk factors for pre-eclampsia - including the protective effect of placenta previa - at Medani Maternity Hospital, Sudan. Medical files of the patients during the period 2003-2010 were reviewed for age, parity, education level, prenatal care, placenta previa, and hemoglobin level. Women with pre-eclampsia were the cases, and w...

This paper presents a proposal for a large-scale lecture authentication algorithm for an electronic attendance system. The utilization rate for existing electronic attendance systems is low. Because it couldn't solve the problems that occur by special conditions of university such as vicarious attendance, bottlenecking during attendance check-in, and attendees departure at intermission. The mos...

BACKGROUND Continuum of care has the potential to improve maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) by ensuring care for mothers and children. Continuum of care in MNCH is widely accepted as comprising sequential time (from pre-pregnancy to motherhood and childhood) and space dimensions (from community-family care to clinical care). However, it is unclear which linkages of care could have a gr...

BACKGROUND Parenting, Eating and Activity for Child Health (PEACH™) is a multicomponent treatment program delivered over ten group sessions to parents of overweight/obese primary school-aged children. It has been shown to be efficacious in an RCT and was recently translated to a large-scale community intervention funded by the Queensland (Australia) Government. Engagement (enrolment and attenda...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Information on the effect of students' class attendance on examination performance in a problem-based learning medical curriculum is limited. This study investigates the impact of different educational activities on students' academic performance in a problem-based learning curriculum. METHODS This is a retrospective cohort study conducted on the cardiology block at the Co...

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has impacted the utilisation of Emergency Department (ED) services worldwide. This study aims to describe changes in attendance at a single ED and corresponding patient visit characteristics before during COVID-19 period. Methods: In single-centre retrospective cohort study, we used descriptive statistics compare attendance, demographics perio...