Therefore, an understanding of the level and determinants of quality contraception information among young women in Sierra Leon could inform family programs, with the aim of reducing the high unmet need in the country.#We analyzed secondary data from the 2019 Sierra Leone Demographic Health Survey ...
This study examined the inequalities in neonatal mortality rates in Sierra Leone between 2008 and 2019. Methods We utilized data from the Sierra Leone Demographic Health Survey rounds conducted in 2008, 2013, and 2019. We used the World Health Organisation Health Equity Assessment Toolkit to ...
Sexual ViolenceSierra Leone Demographic and Health SurveyEmergency operationsBackground: In 2019, Sierra Leone declared a national emergency over rape and other forms of sexual violence (SV), hence diverting resources from other issues tdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3489297Shour, Abdul...
child death due to low level public health [4]. In this study we will focus our analysis on the child death of Sierra Leone, a Sub-Saharan African country with one of the highest child mortality rates [4]. Sierra Leone is one of the world’s poorest countries and is experiencing numero...
Sierra leone demographic and health survey 2019 Stats SL and ICF, Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Rockville, Maryland, USA (2020), p. 647 Technical Report Google Scholar Swaminathan and Rogers, 1990 Swaminathan Hariharan, Rogers H. Jane Detecting differential item functioning using logistic regression ...
Rural–urban correlates of skilled birth attendance utilisation in Sierra Leone: evidence from the 2019 Sierra Leone Demographic Health Survey Objectives Understanding the rural鈥搖rban context-specific correlates of skilled birth attendance (SBA) is important to designing relevant strategies and ... Q....
This study investigated the inequalities in total fertility rate among women in Sierra Leone between 2008 and 2019.#We utilized data from the three rounds of the Sierra Leone Demographic Health Survey conducted in 2008, 2013, and 2019. The World Health Organization's Health Equity Assessment ...
Table 4. Demographic characteristics of caregiver focus group participants from the two communities in Northern Sierra Leone (N = 63). CharacteristicFocus Group 1Focus Group 2Focus Group 3Focus Group 4Focus Group 5Focus Group 6Focus Group 7Total n% Sex Female 0 5 10 11 0 12 10 48 76.19 ...
thus influencing the precision of the findings. regarding the timing of the first anc, 54.5% of women sought their first anc in the first trimester of pregnancy and this prevalence was higher than that obtained in the sierra leone demographic and health survey 2019, where 44.0% made their firs...
How do widespread public health crises affect political behavior? This article examines the impact of the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak on political participation in Sierra Leone. In addition to the effects observed following conflict and natural disasters, I present evidence that hardship brought on...