Sondaal, Annemijn E C Tumbahangphe, Kirti M Neupane, Rishi Manandhar, Dharma S Costello, Anthony Morrison, Joanna
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Community development journal
Participatory community-based women's group interventions have been successful in improving maternal and newborn survival. In rural Makwanpur, Nepal, exposure to these Participatory Learning and Action groups resulted in a thirty-percent reduction in neonatal mortality rate and significantly fewer maternal deaths. It is often theorised that partici...
Saha, Somen
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Community development journal
The main contributors to inequities in health relates to widespread poverty. Health cannot be achieved without addressing the social determinants of health, and the answer does not lie in the health sector alone. One of the potential pathways to address vulnerabilities linked to poverty, social exclusion, and empowerment of women is aligning health...
Bertotti, Marcello Harden, Angela Renton, Adrian Sheridan, Kevin
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Community development journal
There has been much enthusiasm over the past 10 years for the potential contribution of social enterprises to the regeneration of disadvantaged urban areas. This enthusiasm has far outstripped the availability of empirical evidence. This paper reports a qualitative study of one social enterprise, a community café, and its contribution to building s...
Konteh, R
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Community development journal
This study identifies socioeconomic and health care variables affecting maternal mortality in 12 villages in Gbendembu Ngowahun Chiefdom in Sierra Leone. Data were obtained from Bombali district in the Northern Province. The villages include about 245,000 people. Analysis is based on interviews, participant observation, and health records from prim...
Agboatwalla, M Akram, D S
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Community development journal
The Health Education and Literacy Project (HELP) set up a primary health care (PHC) project in the urban slum of Naleem Colony in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1992. The project integrated preventive health, literacy, sanitation, and income generation. Its focus was the community health worker (CHW). Its motto was self-sustainability. A rotating fund allow...
Cheung, Y B
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Community development journal
This study is based on interviews conducted in Xiao San Jiang Township, China. This article describes the health care system before and after the reforms of the late 1970s and the impact on community mobilization and health care provision. The success of the Chinese health care system is attributed to mass participation in disease prevention. There...
Tout, K
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Community development journal
The patterns of care of the aged population are being influenced by demographic changes, migration, and industrialization in developing countries. There is no longer a secure place for the elders in the community as chiefs, sages, or useful members of the household. In very large mega-cities the aged living in an extended family are more prone to p...
Tan, M De Leon, A Stoltzfus, B O'donnell, C
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Community development journal
An estimated 200,000-500,000 men, women, and children work in prostitution in the Philippines in a variety of venues, including brothels, nightclubs, pubs, massage parlors, and other legitimate entertainment establishments. Few, however, are voluntary prostitutes. Many people who work as prostitutes have been recruited from the provinces, kept in c...
Richter, H
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Community development journal
In the 1980s, 21 Health and Family Welfare Centres (HFWC) in Munchiganz district in Bangladesh extended health and family planning services and health education to satellite clinics in private homes. A family welfare visitor (FWV) would visit each clinic 2 times/week to conduct health education sessions and treat patients. HFWC also promoted 70 mot...
Rugh, J
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Community development journal
The local associations of Maisons Familiales (MF) in Senegal periodically conduct participatory evaluations of community projects. 2 evaluations often used include internal exercises by and for the staff, such as a written questionnaire, and an assisted self evaluation. An assisted self evaluation often involves participant subgroups discussing pro...
