Agronomic and Nutritional Perspectives on Vegetable Crops in Africa
AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.Vegetable production plays a key role in food security, nutrition, and livelihoods across Africa. Moreover, African indigenous vegetables emerge as underutilized yet highly valuable crops, rich in macro‐ and micronutrients, as well as bioactive compounds with an array of health benefits.
Đorđe Vojnović +4 more
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A decade of improvements in equity of access to reproductive and maternal health services in Cambodia, 2000–2010 [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2013 Despite encouraging reductions in global maternal mortality rates, Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 on reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health remains the most off-track of all MDGs. Furthermore a preoccupation with aggregate coverage statistics masks extensive disparities in health improvements between ...
Dingle, A, Powell-Jackson, T, Goodman, C
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Leveraging Barangay Health Workers to Strengthen Geriatric Care in an Aging Philippines
AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.Population aging in the Philippines requires innovative, community‐based approaches to strengthen geriatric care delivery. This article highlights the potential of Barangay Health Workers as frontline partners in promoting healthy aging through early detection, chronic disease monitoring, and coordinated referral services.
Darin Jan C. Tindowen
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Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in the Health Financing System in Tanzania [PDF]
, 2013 This report assesses the potential barriers and obstacles that people with disabilities might face when accessing health care services. It is the overall objective of this study to provide evidence on obstacles and financial barriers that people with ...
Ifakara Health Institute, (IHI)
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Health and access to health services of rural-to-urban migrant populations in Viet Nam [PDF]
, 2013 Viet Nam has increasing internal migration since the Renovation (Doi Moi) in 1986. Migration flows – particularly rural-to-urban migration – have positive and negative effects to migrants, their family, and socio-economics in their places of origin and ...
Le, Anh Thi-Kim
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Maternal characteristics and type of prenatal care associated with peregrination before childbirth
Revista de Saúde PúblicaOBJECTIVE To analyze the maternal characteristics and type of prenatal care associated with peregrination before childbirth among pregnant women in a northeastern Brazilian state.
Rosemar Barbosa Mendes +5 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Quality in and Equality of Access to Healthcare Services in England [PDF]
This “country report” for England is part of a larger, collaborative effort between eight European countries to document and analyse access to health care services.
Maria Goddard
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Equity of Access to Health Services Some relevant issues in an Irish context
, 2001 A Background Paper prepared for the Working Group on the National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS) and Health.
Harkin, Anna May +1 more
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The evolution of inequity in the access to health care in Spain: 1987-2001 [PDF]
This paper reports an analysis of the evolution of equity in access to health care in Spain over the period 1987-2001, a time span covering the development of the modern Spanish National Health System.
Pilar García Gómez, Ángel López
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