BACKGROUND Maternity waiting homes (MWHs) are aimed at improving access to facility-based skilled delivery services in rural areas. This study explored women's experiences and beliefs concerning utilisation of MWHs in rural Zambia. Insight is needed into women's experiences and beliefs to provide starting points for the design of public health interventions that focus on promoting access to and...

background: despite many media campaigns by government and private sectors highlighting, water and sanitation treat­ment plans and policies, the public health problems are still common in different socioeconomic areas. the objective of our study was to explore the major public health problems prevailing in two different socio economic areas in karachi, pakistan. methods: a cross sectional surve...

OBJECTIVE To explore whether socioeconomic and sanitary conditions, maternal and child factors are associated with overweight, stunting, and wasting in children under five year old in the city of São Leopoldo, southern Brazil. METHODS Cross-sectional study of 3,957 children aged 1 month to 5 years conducted in all primary care services of the city during the National Children's Vaccination Da...

year during the respective seasons and the authorities are unable to cope with the precautionary work when the diseases have taken their foothold, and the people have been scared into a panic, so much so that sanitary or medical advice counts for nothing. Invariably the villagers resort to methods objectionable and mischievous, that is lodging in non-infested localities and thus spreading the d...

AIMS To evaluate different strategies for description of the sanitary quality of industrial-scale composting. METHODS AND RESULTS The investigation included microbiological analyses of waste at different stages during the process (spot test analysis), as well as physical and chemical parameters. The elimination of indicator organisms was also investigated by means of direct process evaluation...

We wish to draw the particular attention of our readers to a volume which lias been recently issued from the India Office, entitled;?" Report on Measures adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India, from June 1869 to June 1870, together with Abstracts of Sanitary Reports for 1868, forwarded from Bengal, Madras, and Bombay." This is a sanitary multum in parvo, and should be in the hands of every ...

Pigs are confronted with changes in farming practices that may affect performance and animal well-being. The sanitary conditions of the farm can have an impact on the ability of pigs to adapt to these changes. This study aimed to analyse how weaned pigs respond to common farming practices of changes in diet and housing in terms of performance, health and behaviour, and how these responses are a...

A Local Sanitary Agency – LSA operating in an Italian region can be described as a multi-stage multi-service-center chain, such that it can be modeled by a Collaborative DEmand and Supply NETwork (CO-DESNET). Such network consists of an organization of service centers which operate in the same health care-dedicated line and interact together to facilitate the patients’ flows along the chain of ...

BACKGROUND In 1994, the Palestinian Health Authority took over responsibility for primary health care (PHC) in Gaza Strip and West Bank. OBJECTIVES This paper reports on the Palestinian National Strategic Health Plan (PNSHP 1999--2003). The extent to which the PHC objectives were achieved is discussed, together with areas that still require improvement. METHODS This descriptive study used c...