Primary Healthcare for a Rural Baranggay in the PhilippinesHadwiger, Mariquit C
This research, focusing on health care utilization by men and women in a rural area of the Philippines, found that factors such as reliance on male wages for family survival (involving higher expenditures for men's health than women's) and gender differences in illness were influential in ...
About half the rural elderly had health ratings of "good," and a third rated "fair," Nearly 40 percent had average body weights, and more than 50 percent were underweight by local standards. The low body weights for height reflect the small amounts of subcutaneous fat (based on skinfold ...
For the longest time, our financial system has been lopsided against the poor. I’ve long believed that a key reason poverty is more prevalent and persistent in the Philippines compared to most of its neighbors is the failure of our financial system to make credit and finance widely accessible...
Pakistan ranks third lowest on a global gender index (2013) and 13th highest on the prevalence of underweight among under-five children (2010). Through this population-based study, we examined gender differentials in the prevalence of stunting, wasting and under-weight defined by World Health Orga...
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units and applying a family health regime, particularlyinrural,marginalized and deprived areas, improving the health services [...] daccess-ods.un.org daccess-ods.un.org (c) 强调各成员国和阿拉伯卫生部长理事会继续努力改善保健标准的重要
Along with the agro-industrialization of Bukidnon, a rural province in Southern Philippines, is the need for companies' commitment to corporate social responsibility which has to operate within its context. Thus, with an aim to develop a community-based design for Corporate Social and Environmental ...
Sexual and reproductive health services for women with disability: a qualitative study with service providers in the Philippines The Philippines has ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and recently passed domestic legislation protecting t... K Lee,A Devine,...
2Department of Public Health, Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia; 3Department of Nursing, Visayas State University, Visayas, Philippines; 4Department of Nursing, Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes Malang, Malang, Indonesia; 5Department of EMS, King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Cor...