INTRODUCTION As part of maternal mortality reducing strategies, coverage of delivery care among sub-Saharan African rural poor will improve, with a range of facilities providing services. Whether high coverage will benefit all socio-economic groups is unknown. Iringa rural District, Southern Tanzania, with high facility delivery coverage, offers a paradigm to address this question. Delivery ser...

SETTING Despite the prioritisation of TB, HIV and STI programmes in South Africa, service targets are not achieved, have had little effect, and the magnitude of the epidemics continues to escalate. Objective. To report on a participatory quality improvement intervention designed to evaluate these priority programmes in primary health care (PHC) clinics in a rural district in KwaZulu-Natal. ME...

BACKGROUND Sustainable multifaceted outreach is crucial when equity between specialist services available to different sections of South Africa (SA)'s population is addressed. The healthcare disadvantage for rural compared with urban populations is exemplified in KwaZulu-Natal Province (KZN). Outreach to rural hospitals has reduced the need for patients to undergo journeys to regional or tertia...

Sustainable Livelihoods Approach emerged in the 1980s as a new analytical approach in the field of rural development inwhich the rural livelihood capitals form the basis of the villagers' empowerment and their ability to get involved in their own individual and social destiny. This study aimed to answer the question that how much the importance of each type of livelihood capitals is in the Cent...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate effect of access to health facilities on the health status of rural households at Kermanshah Province. Statistical pupation of this study consisted of all heads of rural households at Bisotoun district in Harsin Township, Kermanshah Province, Iran (N=1020), that 278 of them were selected by the cluster random sampling method. The main instrument...

background: cryptosporidium spp. is a coccidian parasite infected humans and animals. prevalence rate of cryptosporidium spp. infection associated with is some parameters such as sampling, age, season, country and contact to domestic animals. this study aimed to determine cryptosporidium spp. infection in humans and some animals in rural areas of shushtar district from khuzestan province, south...

providing appropriate rural housing in the country is a critical and ever- increasing demand. solving current problems, in the rural housing prospects of the country requires essential research and planning. the first step in any type of planning towards improving or rehabilitation of rural housing conditions in iran demands comprehensive and macro level information and an overall correct class...

The District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) has been traditionally the principal organ at the District level to oversee the implementation of different anti-poverty programmes. The DRDA Guidelines of 1999 primarily define the role of DRDA as a Supporting and Facilitating Organization and being a catalyst in the development process, The guidelines also indicate the need for developing a greater...