Taking a perspective of frontline health workers as internal clients within health systems, this study explored how perceived injustice in policy and organizational matters influence frontline health worker motivation and the consequent effect on workers' attitudes and performance in delivering maternal and neonatal health care in public hospitals. It consisted of an ethnographic study in two p...

BACKGROUND Dog bites are common in developing countries including Ghana, with the victims often being children. Although some breeds of dogs have been identified as being more aggressive than others, all dog bites carry a risk of infection. Immediate and initial assessment of the risk for tetanus and rabies infection with appropriate interventions such as wound management and subsequent selecti...

The National Youth Service Action and Social Development Research Institute (NYSASDRI) has been implementing the Meikirch Model in 100 villages in the state of Odisha where rates of poverty, infant and maternal mortality are the highest in India. Although no formal evaluation yet exists, NYSASDRI staff have monitored 20 villages closely and associate great improvements in sanitation, malaria pr...

Despite growing support for integration of frontline services, a lack of information about the pre-conditions necessary to integrate such services hampers the ability of policy makers and implementers to assess how feasible or worthwhile integration may be, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We adopted a modified systematic review with aspects of realist review, including q...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Several studies have demonstrated the effect of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (auto-HSCT) as a salvage treatment for patients with relapsed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). However, the role of auto-HSCT as a frontline treatment has not been fully investigated in the rituximab era. We validated the age-adjusted International Prognostic Index (aaIPI) sc...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the associations of quality management systems with teamwork and safety climate, and to describe and compare differences in perceptions of teamwork climate and safety climate among clinical leaders and frontline clinicians. METHOD We used a multi-method, cross-sectional approach to collect survey data of quality management systems and perceived teamwo...

Engaging in organizational activities fosters individual growth; nonetheless, active participation necessitates individuals to invest their time, energy, cognitive effort, perseverance, and motivation. This correlational study aims examine the relationship between self-esteem academic resilience among student council functionaries vocational high schools Salatiga. By employing quota sampling te...

released in June predict warmer, drier summers for the UK and milder, wetter winters. The report, presented by environment secretary Hilary Benn, gives three different scenarios with detailed results for the corresponding climate in the 2020s, 2050s, and 2080s. In the worst-case scenario, i.e. if Copenhagen fails and not much is done to curb emissions, the hottest summer days could end up being...