BACKGROUND There is limited research on how the empowerment of women and intimate partner violence (IPV) are associated with skilled birth attendance (SBA) among rural women in Uganda. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to investigate the association between women's empowerment, their experience of IPV and SBA in rural Uganda. METHODS Using data from the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey...

Empowerment may be at the individual, organizational or up to the whole of country level. This paper examines ICT initiatives as an empowerment enabler in rural India. One rural eHealth empowerment initiative is the Karnataka Internet Assisted Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity (KIDROP). An example of an eGovernance initiative is Bhoomi, while the rollout of computers will enable not only ...

Harriot Stuart is well worth teaching because it offers rich possibilities both for discussing literary forms such as heroic romance, epistolary form, and womens narrative voices, investigating topics the transatlantic experience, colonialism, representations of Native Americans. Whether in a course focused specifically on Charlotte Lennoxs works or more broadly eighteenth-century fiction, can ...

stability and survival of rural communities for the residents without productive and profitable engagement is impossible. in this context the emergence of rural entrepreneurship is inevitable. today, one of the most important strategies for rural development is attention to the entrepreneurial spirit among the villagers and farmers. thus entrepreneurship can improve quality of life, make better...

introduction rural women constitute about half of the world’s population and in the world production supply they have energetic comm:union: and constitute a great part of agriculture workforce. they constitute50% of the workforce and participate in the production of half of the foods in the agriculture section. as an example the rural women constitute about 70 to 80% of agriculture workforce in...