It is assumed that the health conditions of urban women are superior to their rural counterparts. However, evidence from Asia and Africa, show that poor urban women and their families have worse access to antenatal care and facility childbirth compared t
This is the eighth in our series of 11 papers on “CHWs at the Dawn of a New Era”. Community health worker (CHW) incentives and remuneration are core issues that affect the performance of individual CHWs and the performance of the overall CHW programme.
This is the concluding paper of our 11-paper supplement, “Community health workers at the dawn of a new era”. We relied on our collective experience, an extensive body of literature about community health workers (CHWs), and the other papers in this su
Top priority in office: My top priority is to be a strong upstate voice in the majority conference. This means being focused on things that matter to our communities, bringing new jobs, supporting our small businesses, expanding rural broadband and fighting for better rural health ...
[T]he analysis, published on Monday, found that Biden’s proposals on education, infrastructure and health care would largely pay for themselves. That would be in part by raising taxes, but also by boosting wages and lowering health care costs. ...
A chairman of the Employees General Union with over 30 years of work experience proposed that “how to arrange DSR projects with many small jobs and providing a safe working platform are important. If the manager does not arrange the electricity job well or if the manager gives insufficient inf...
societal and planning incompetence or lack of care, or sources of vulnerability that portend increasing disruption alongside other calamities, such as the pressures of climate change and political strife [4]. How a government chooses to address informal settlements says much about policy and values,...
In order to realize this vision, Kenya has set up the Big 4 development agenda [93]. To achieve this ambitious goal, targets have been established in four sectors. The Big 4 agenda will prioritize manufacturing, universal healthcare, affordable housing and food security, as well as social ...