BACKGROUND Maternal deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa are largely preventable with health facility delivery assisted by skilled birth attendants. Examining associations of birth location preferences on pregnant women's experiences is important to understanding delays in care seeking in the event of complications. We explored the influence of birth location preference on women's pregnancy, labor and ...

BACKGROUND In response to poor maternal, newborn, and child health indicators in Magadi sub-county, the "Boma" model was launched to promote health facility delivery by establishing community health units and training community health volunteers (CHVs) and traditional birth attendants (TBAs) as safe motherhood promoters. As a result, health facility delivery increased from 14% to 24%, still con...

Introduction: Emergency Medical Service (EMS) workers are critical to effective disaster response in Saudi Arabia. The World Health Organization requires countries and governments have prepared emergency health action plans. Therefore, it is important understand the knowledge, skills, preparedness of Arabian EMS workers. This study investigated factors influencing workers’ context. Method: A de...

The article analyses the impact of COVID-19 on health and long-term care systems, as well institutional resilience by applying indicators preparedness, agility robustness. study shows how weakness intergovernmental cross-sectorial coordination instruments, particularities Spanish sectors, hindered initial response to challenges presented pandemic. However, after first tragic wave disease, inten...

background: hospitals in iran are not prepared for disasters the aim of this study was to determine the effect of training functional and nonstructural hospital safety to nurses and their intervention on hospital preparedness in psychiatric razi hospital and day hospital in tehran based on hospital safety index (hsi). materials  and  methods:  this  semi-experimental  study  included  nurse  ma...

introduction: bioterrorism is a worldwide problem and has been the focus of attention during recent decades. there is no precise information on the knowledge, attitude, and preparedness of iranian red crescent volunteers in dealing with bioterrorism. therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the above-mentioned parameters in mahabad red crescent society volunteers. methods: in this prospec...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the application of economics to health care preparedness by estimating the financial return on investment in a substate regional emergency response team and to develop a financial model aimed at sustaining community-level disaster readiness. METHODS Economic evaluation methods were applied to the experience of a regional Pennsylvania response capability. A cost-benefi...

UNLABELLED Guidelines for the design of emergency communications were derived from primary research and interrogation of the literature. The guidelines were used to re-design a nuclear emergency preparedness leaflet routinely distributed to households in the local area. Pre-test measures of memory for, and self-reported understanding of, nuclear safety information were collected. The findings r...