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TRANSPORTATION BARRIERS TO ACCESS HEALTH CARE FOR SURGICAL CONDITIONS IN MALAWI a cross sectional nationwide household survey
BACKGROUND: It is estimated that nearly five billion people worldwide do not have access to safe surgery. This access gap …
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Policy review on the management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia by community health workers in Mozambique
BACKGROUND: Pre-eclampsia is one of the leading causes of maternal death in Mozambique. Limited access to health care facilities and …
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Determinants of delayed or incomplete diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccination in parallel urban and rural birth cohorts of 30,956 infants in Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Delayed vaccination increases the time infants are at risk for acquiring vaccine-preventable diseases. Factors associated with incomplete vaccination are …
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Access and utilization of maternal healthcare in a rural district in the forest belt of Ghana
BACKGROUND: Poor maternal health delivery in developing countries results in more than half a million maternal deaths during pregnancy, childbirth …
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Causes of death and predictors of childhood mortality in Rwanda: a matched case-control study using verbal social autopsy
BACKGROUND: Rwanda has dramatically reduced child mortality, but the causes and sociodemographic drivers for mortality are poorly understood. METHODS: We …
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Patients’ perspectives of acceptability of ART, TB and maternal health services in a subdistrict of Johannesburg, South Africa
BACKGROUND: The field of acceptability of health services is emerging and growing in coherence. But there are gaps, including relatively …
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‘I am always crying on the inside’: a qualitative study on the implications of infertility on women’s lives in urban Gambia
BACKGROUND: There is an increasing awareness that infertility in Sub-Saharan Africa constitutes a severe social and public health problem. Few …
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Maternal health care visits as predictors of contraceptive use among childbearing women in a medically underserved state in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Health care visits during pregnancy, childbirth and after childbirth may be crucial in expanding the uptake of contraceptive care …
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Factors influencing e-health implementation by medical doctors in public hospitals in Zimbabwe
Background: Improving access to health care services in both developed and developing countries through information communication technology (ICT) has been …
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Informal workers’ access to health care services: findings from a qualitative study in the Kassena-Nankana districts of Northern Ghana
BACKGROUND: Over the past two decades, employment in the informal sector has grown rapidly in all regions including low and …
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Cost of malaria treatment and health seeking behaviour of children under-five years in the Upper West Region of Ghana
BACKGROUND: There is limited knowledge on cost of treating malaria in children under-five years in northern Ghana which poses a …
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Place of Delivery Associated With Postnatal Care Utilization Among Childbearing Women in Zambia
OBJECTIVE: Postnatal care (PNC) utilization is critical to the prevention of maternal morbidity and mortality. Despite its importance, the proportion …
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Hygiène Buccodentaire, Formes Cliniques des Lésions Carieuses et Parodontopathies chez les Enfants Handicapés dans Deux Centres Spécialisés de Yaoundé
RESUME Introduction et buts. Les personnes handicapees semblent predisposees aux pathologies bucco-dentaires, mais de nombreuses barrieres limitent leur acces aux …
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Community health workers in Lesotho: Experiences of health promotion activities
BACKGROUND: Lesotho adopted primary health care in 1979, and community health workers (CHWs) were included in the programme to focus …
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‘Scared of going to the clinic’: Contextualising healthcare access for men who have sex with men, female sex workers and people who use drugs in two South African cities
BACKGROUND: Men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers (SW) and people who use drugs (PWUD) are at increased …
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“The mosquitoes that destroy your face”. Social impact of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in South-eastern Morocco, A qualitative study
OBJECTIVE: To document the psychosocial burden of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) in rural communities in Southeastern Morocco. METHOD: Between March and …
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Analysis of the impact of healthcare support initiatives for physically disabled people on their access to care in the city of Saint-Louis, Senegal
BACKGROUND: People with disabilities represent approximately 6% of the Senegalese population. They face significant barriers to accessing health care. Although …
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Access to health care for persons with disabilities in rural South Africa
BACKGROUND: Global research suggests that persons with disabilities face barriers when accessing health care services. Yet, information regarding the nature …
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Spatiotemporal and molecular epidemiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Libya
BACKGROUND: Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a major public health problem in Libya. In this paper, we describe the eco-epidemiological parameters …
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Determinants and the impact of the National Health Insurance on neonatal mortality in Ghana
The national health insurance was established to increase access to health care services and the maternal component was later introduced …