a health survey in ghana

... several ART training initiatives, including the Drug Access Initiative [20], and WHO's Integrated Management of Adult and Adolescent Illness [21], as well as training from organizations such as ... a situational analysis in Africa that focused on organizations that provided training in clinical management of HIV infection, including ART [20] Souville et al reported on knowledge of and attitudes ... assistants who conducted the fieldwork: Joseph Kiwanuka, Ann Nanfuka, Betty Asio, Loyce Arinaitwe, Agnes Nanyonjo, John Paul Magomu, Evelyn Eleku, Nankinga Ziadah, Leah Wanyenya, Albert Majwala and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests Medical writing and editorial assistance was provided by Carol Sibley and Patricia C Abramo of AdelphiEden Health Communications, ... after switching to loratadine subsequent to fexofenadine failure than after switching to fexofenadine following loratadine failure [6] The Norwegian Health Agency conducted no patientimpact assessment ... regarding efficacy, fatigue, and impact on work productivity and attendance after a mandatory switch from desloratadine, ebastine, or fexofenadine to cetirizine or loratadine Methods Between January...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... implementation In Trinidad and Tobago, the strategy recently expired The Bahamas, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Anguilla Antigua The Bahamas Barbados Belize Dominica Grenada Guyana Jamaica St Kitts ... maintenance of school buildings and facilities in all schools Anguilla Antigua The Bahamas Barbados Belize Dominica Grenada Guyana Jamaica St Kitts & Nevis St Lucia St Vincent & Grenadines Trinidad ... 09:52 Page 21 Anguilla Antigua The Bahamas Barbados Belize Dominica Grenada Guyana Jamaica St Kitts & Nevis St Lucia St Vincent & Grenadines Trinidad & Tobago Table Presence of Skills-Based Health...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... heard of sexual intercourse? By this I mean a penis in a vagina.” Ever had sexual intercourse and relationship status According to the 2003 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, the median age at ... Macro— Pav Govindasamy, Albert Themme, Jeanne Cushing, Alfredo Aliaga and Rebecca Stallings—for input into all facets of the survey design and coordinating the pretest, sample selection, training, ... and Dagbani, the most widely spoken local languages in Ghana The approach adopted for the translation was to first translate the questionnaires into the Ghanaian languages and then back into...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... Collaborative Health Alliance for Reshaping Training, Education and Research (CHARTER) grant awarded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Grant number: 50786) Ghana- Michigan CHARTER is a collaborative ... metropolitan area like Accra or Kumasi In fact, while many doctors in GA had been abroad, many (especially the young) had never traveled as far north as Tamale, let alone the upper regions of Ghana “I ... of using post-graduate training as an incentive for rural service, but the Health Ministry of India launched such an incentive program in 2009 Indian doctors with at least three years of rural...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... to value their own health state on a visual analogue scale (EQ-VAS) The EQ-VAS records a respondent’s self rated valuation of health status on a scale ranging from (worst imaginable health state) ... Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnolog a, Spain (SAF 2000-158-CE), Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain, and other local agencies and by an unrestricted educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline ... each as a dependent variable in a weighted ordinary least square regression, while again controlling for socio-demographic variables (Table 6) It was found that age and German residence were negatively...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Mental Health 2009, 4:119 17 Hirata T, Shiina A, Igarashi Y, Iwama H, Kawabata T, Kishi Y, Seto H, Hattori I, Hayashi H, Hirabayashi N, Matsuzaka A: Kantei-nyuin ni okeru iryotekikansatsu ni kansuru ... Hospital of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan 4Chiba Psychiatric Medical Center, Chiba, Japan 5Mobara Mental Hospital, Chiba, Japan 6Chiba Aoba Municipal Hospital, Chiba, Japan Department ... psychiatric examination In Japanese] 18 Ando K, Asanami C, Mizuno Y, Sawa Y, Tsukue R, Taruya T: Challenge of confrontation to his act in designated hospital [in Japanese] Jap J Forensic Mental Health...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... (increasing daily physical activity including cardiovascular exercise); rest (adopting regular relaxation practices to minimise physical and emotional stress) and environmental sanitation (maintaining ... however, in the era of the health policy (i.e in 2008), having formal education was generally associated with living healthy with the chances of making healthy adjustments increasing with increasing ... model revealed that certain socio-economic and demographic variables are associated with healthy lifestyle behaviour (Table 4) Residing in an urban area was generally associated with unhealthy lifestyle...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... at each medical school focusing on a separate area: “examination and standards in examination,” “e-learning in medicine,” “evaluation of teaching,” “practical year,” and “preparation for final ... CAP in the German-speaking parts of Europe: 26 in Germany, in Austria, and in Switzerland After mailings and some personal reminders, the response rate was 100% Further information was obtained ... this article as: Frank and Frank: Teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduate medical students - A survey in Germanspeaking countries Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... myocardial ischemia Salt intake was assessed from the amount of salt used in cooking and extra salt used during meal Statistical Analysis We used EPI-INFO-2002 software for data entry and analysis ... Arindam Basu is the Assistant Director of the UC Berkeley (University of California at Berkeley, California) based Fogarty International Training Program in Occupational and Environmental Health ... Health in India He is both an otolaryngologist and an epidemiologist Dr Basu graduated in the year 1990 from Medical College, Calcutta, India and had further graduate training in otolaryngology and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:12

... To minimize analytical variations between samples, samples were divided into professional analytical centers and the same group of substances was analyzed in the same laboratory for all the samples ... pesticides mainly depends upon their usage in the catchment area, timing of pesticide usage was also taken into consideration for sampling Analytical Methods In total, 12 analytical methods were ... treatment plants are conducting periodical monitoring of monitoring items included in Japanese water quality standard Sampling points were shown in Figure Analyzed Chemicals Target chemicals are selected,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... mortality in Bangladesh in mind, BRAC has initiated a large communitybased programme to reduce maternal, neonatal and child mortality in 2005 in Nilphamari and has taken a decision to scale up in ... Improving knowledge of antenatal care (ANC) among pregnant women: a field trial in central Java, Indonesia Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health 2005, 17(1):3–8 32 AbouZahr CL, Wardlaw TM: Maternal ... Autonomy in Decision Making for Health Care in South Asia Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health 2009, 21(2):137–143 17 Cham M, Sundby J, Vangen S: Maternal mortality in the rural Gambia, a qualitative...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... of Pamplona, Spain Women attend this kind of centre for obtaining primary care from family physicians These centres are part of the National Health Service and they not have any particular religious ... stage as about those acting at stage or This might have bias the respondents in the way as to considering methods active at stage or as something bad Previous research indicated moral considerations ... related to stage or are rather frequent, whereas anecdotal information points towards only rare reservations against methods working before fertilization [2,9] We thus refrained from adding a...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... UK District Health Directorate District Health Administration District Health Committee District Health Management Team Ghana Demographic and Health Survey Ghana Health Service Ghana Poverty reduction ... e) Infant scale f) Adult scale g) Measuring tape h) Vaginal speculum (L) i) Vaginal speculum (M) j) Vaginal speculum (S) k) Examination couch/table/bed Antenatal care protocols and teaching materials ... services related to the promotion and advocacy Antenatal care 73 96 Postnatal care (breast 68 92 for sexual health and abandonment of feeding & infant care) harmful traditional practices are made Delivery...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... Byarugabe- Kinondoni; and Dr Louisa Masanyika-Temeke Many thanks go to the AYA/Pathfinder Tanzania team, led by Naomy Achimpota and including Paul Luchemba, Oswald Malunda and Michael Machaku, ... coordinators in facilitating integration of AYA activities in their district development plans Shyam Thapa (Family Health International), Palena Neale (Pathfinder International headquarters), and Emmanuel ... International Tanzania Office i About the African Youth Alliance Project The African Youth Alliance (AYA) was an initiative implemented in Botswana, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda The five year project...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

... Health Planning and Services (CHPS) program on maternal health in the Abura-Asebu Kwamankese District in Ghana. ” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, ... greater initial impact in Nkwanta than in Navrongo This result may be attributed to Nkwanta’s having a unified management system (like most other districts in Ghana) , whereas Navrongo has administrative ... currently available for primary health- care services National economic analyses indicate costs that are low by international standards, but higher than Navrongo estimates Increasing the coverage of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

... msps.es/estadEstudios/estadisticas/estadisticas/microdatos/ frmBusquedaMicrodatos.jsp] 40 Román-Viñas B, Serra-Majem L, Ribas-Barba L, Roure-Cuspinera E, Cabezas C, Vallbona C, Plasencia A: Trends in physical activity status in Catalonia, Spain ... Educational Attainment and Gender Ann Acad Med Singapore 2003, 32:801-6 34 Guallar-Castillón P, Santa-Olalla Peralta P, Banegas JR, López E, RodríguezArtalejo F: Physical activity and quality of life in ... Australia [21], England [27] and Scotland [22] had reported a trend towards an increased PA in individuals older than 60 years of age In fact, the increase in PA has been found to be higher in...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 06:20

... California San Francisco Attending Physician in Internal and HIV Medicine, Asian Health Services HIV Consultant, Pangaea Foundation San Francisco, California Anthony Valdini, MD, MS Associate Professor ... and assessment of these goals in Global Health Program Evaluation in Chapter Impact of Global Health Education on Residency Training and Career Path International health opportunities appear to ... and Internal Medicine based at Brigham and Women‘s Hospital provides a four-year training program that includes customary internal medicine training, augmented by didactic teaching, longitudinal...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... is also becoming increasingly crucial Popular examples of data matching include matching citations of research papers, authors, and institutions As another example, consider again the databases ... use a Naive Bayes learning approach that exploits data instances to match elements In the past five years, there is also a growing realization that schema- and data-related evidence in two schemas ... Representing and reasoning about mappings between domain models In Proceedings of the National AI Conference (AAAI-02) Madhavan, J.; Bernstein, P.; Doan, A. ; and Halevy, A 2005 Corpus-based schema matching...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... premise that low income groups across different countries share similar constraints in accessing health care 6.2 SETTIN G Most trials took place in North America: 25 in the USA and in Canada A further ... regarding the human resource crisis in health care in many LMICs has renewed interest in the roles that LHWs may play in extending services to ‘hard to reach’ groups and areas and in substituting ... Child health: any interventions aimed at improving the health of children aged less than five years • Maternal health: any interventions aimed at improving reproductive health or ensuring safe...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20