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Applying Human Rights-Based Approaches to Public Health: Lessons Learned from Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Programs
Health and human rights Human rights-based approaches Maternal
2015/7/28
The application of human rights norms at the national policy level is largely codified, but rigorous research on the field-level application of a human rights based approach (HRBA) to health programs ...
Accelerating and improving survey implementation with mobile technology: Lessons from PMA2020 implementation in Lagos, Nigeria
Survey implementation Mobile technology Family planning
2015/7/28
Large-scale nationally representative surveys have traditionally been implemented using paper surveys, necessitating secondary steps of data entry and management after data collection. Errors occurrin...
Application of mHealth to improve service delivery and health outcomes: Opportunities and challenges
mHealth Technology Health
2015/7/28
The use of mobile technologies for health related activities (mHealth) is a new but rapidly progressing activity with global penetration. However, few programs have been implemented at scale. The obje...
Strengthening the home-to-facility continuum of newborn and child health care through mHealth: Evidence from an intervention in rural Malawi
mHealth Newborn and child health Home-to-facility continuum of care
2015/7/28
This paper assesses the impact of a mobile health (mHealth) project on uptake of home-based care for newborn and child health, and investigates the extent to which uptake of home-based care resulted i...
Analysis of demographic and health survey to measure poverty of household in Rwanda
Clumping millennium goal Odds ratio Poverty reduction
2015/7/28
The use of the asset index in poverty targeting is a modern technique. We used the principal component analysis (PCA) technique in order to create the asset index. Then the asset index was used to ass...
Improving care-seeking for facility-based health services in a rural, resource-limited setting: Effects and potential of an mHealth project
mHealth Care-seeking Maternal health
2015/7/28
The aim of this paper was to investigate the impact of a toll-free hotline and mobile messaging service on care-seeking behaviors. Due to the low uptake of the services, the treatment on the treated e...
Association between experience of sexual coercion and sexual behaviour: insights from the 2008 Botswana AIDS impact survey III
Sexual coercion sexual behaviour
2015/7/28
Little is known about the prevalence and the effect of sexual coercion on risky sexual behaviour in the context of Botswana. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between the experi...
Projecting population, numbers of households and dwelling units in South Africa 2011-2021
Projections households dwelling units
2015/7/28
Future trends in population, number of households and dwelling units are critical components in strategic planning for future service delivery in South Africa. To aid planning therefore, this study an...
Female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual functioning of married women in Oworonshoki Community, Lagos State, Nigeria
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Sexual Functioning
2015/7/28
This article examines the nexus between Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and three thematic/fundamental areas of women sexual functioning in the study location. These thematic areas are women’s sexual ...
Where there is no phone: The benefits and limitations of using intermediaries to extend the reach of mHealth to individuals without personal phones in Malawi
mHealth Intermediaries Phone access
2015/7/28
The purpose of this study is to identify the benefits and limitations associated with intermediaries to provide access to and increase utilization of an mHealth intervention amongst people without per...
Nurses’ International Migration and the Crystallizing ‘Culture of Exile’ in Nigeria: Historical Trends, Dynamics and Consequences
Nurses Motivation International Migrations
2015/7/28
This paper examines an oft-neglected feature of international migration: social changes (disruptions and/or dislocations of their normal ways of living) in source societies in response to the exigenci...
Support for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) for HIV Prevention among Men and Women in Zimbabwe
HIV prevention medical male circumcision
2015/7/28
Medical male circumcision was introduced in Zimbabwe in 2009 as an additional HIV prevention method. This study sought to investigate support for the roll-out of voluntary medical male circumcision (V...
Fostering the use of quasi-experimental designs for evaluating public health interventions: insights from an mHealth project in Malawi
Evaluation Quasi- experimental design Malawi
2015/7/28
The evidence base to support the growing field of mHealth is relatively nascent, with most studies lacking the level of rigor needed to inform scale up of interventions. This paper investigates the im...
Leveraging mobile technology to reduce barriers to maternal, newborn and child health care: a contribution to the evidence base
Mobile technology Maternal Newborn and Child health care
2015/7/28
Leveraging mobile technology to reduce barriers to maternal, newborn and child health care: a contribution to the evidence base.
Determinants of the Recent Rise in Childhood Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys, 1990 – 2003
Kenya Child mortality determinants
2015/7/27
Childhood mortality rates in Kenya increased in the 1990s and early 2000s. Evidence from Kenya Demographic Health Survey (KDHS) data shows increase in under-5 mortality rate by 26 percent from 91 in 1...