BACKGROUND Among Millennium Development Goals, achieving the fifth goal (MDG-5) of reducing maternal mortality poses the greatest challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ethiopia has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in the world with unacceptably low maternal health service utilization. The Government of Ethiopia introduced an innovative community-based intervention as a national strategy ...

Title: The role of health extension workers in improving utilization of maternal health services in rural areas in Ethiopia: a cross sectional study

A detail study on the experience of agricultural extension in Nepal was done by discussion with experts, academicians and involved agricultural officers of Nepal along with review of different documents, books and articles on the subject matter. Since from the first effort of extension service, Training and visit, Integrated Rural Development Approach, Tuki Approach, Farming System Research and...

Imagine that you get such certain awesome experience and knowledge by only reading a book. How can? It seems to be greater when a book can be the best thing to discover. Books now will appear in printed and soft file collection. One of them is this book a social worker s reflections on power privilege and oppression guest editorial personal account. It is so usual with the printed books. Howeve...

Efficiency in a Matching Model with Heterogeneous Agents: Too Many Good or Bad Jobs? This paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two types of workers and jobs. The basic assumption is that high-skill workers can perform both skilled and unskilled jobs, while low-skill workers can only perform unskilled jobs. Our first result shows that the equilibri...

This study aims to analyze the capacity of agricultural instructors in developing cyber extension media, which consists characteristics media design, self-help workers, and as well analyzing factors that affect ability workers media. research uses quantitative through a survey method. Data analysis was carried out descriptively inferentially using Structural Equation Models. Correlational presc...

BACKGROUND This study identifies the percentage of opioids prescribed for compensated workplace conditions in Manitoba, Canada and whether Workers Compensation Board (WCB) status is associated with higher prescription opioid doses. METHODS Opioid prescriptions for WCB recipients were linked with databases housed at the Manitoba Center for Health Policy. Duration of continuous opioid prescript...

Major modifications in the nation building departments were launched in Pakistan through the Devolution Plan 2000 promulgated by the then military regime. In the agriculture sector, changes were introduced in 2001 to replace the existing Training & Visit (T&V) system. The training sessions arranged by extension workers in the decentralized system are similar to the ones arranged in the T&V syst...

Technology is generally assumed to complement workers performing creative tasks by enhancing their ability gather, store, share and transform knowledge. We advance an alternative view conceptualizing how technology complements also extending the domain, namely set of symbolic material elements underlying a given task. elucidate ways in which domain extension workers' individual components creat...