Data from the 2011 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Expanding access to quality health services through task sharing
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                DHS Working Papers No. 119
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 111
This study is a theory-driven analysis of the socio-demographic determinants of maternal care seeking in Kenya. Specifically, it examines predisposing, enabling, and need factors potentially associated with use of antenatal care (ANC), health facility delive...ry, and timely postnatal care (PNC).
This study uses data from the 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS) conducted among women age 15-49 with a live birth in the five years preceding the survey. It includes data from all 47 counties of Kenya, grouped contiguously into 12 regions. We apply Andersen’s Behavioral Model of Health Services Use to examine socio-demographic predictors of health service use. We estimate logistic regression models for adequate use of ANC (defined as attending at least four ANC visits, starting in the first three months of pregnancy), delivery in a health facility, and PNC within 48 hours of delivery.
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                                                                Based on further analysis of the 2004 Kenya Service Provision Assessment Survey
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                In    Kenya,    the    bacterial    infections    that    contribute    most    to    human    disease    are    often    those    in    which    re-‐sistance    is    most    evident.    Examples    are    multidrug-‐resistant    enteric    bacterial    pathogens    such    as    typhoid,  ...  diarrhoeagenic    Escherichia    coli    and    invasive    non-‐typhi    salmonella,    penicillin-‐resistant    Streptococcus    pneu-‐moniae,    vancomycin-‐resistant    enterococci,    methicillin-‐resistant    Staphylococcus    aureus    and    multidrug-‐re-‐sistant    Mycobacterium    tuberculosis.    Resistance    to    medicines    commonly    used    to    treat    malaria    is    of    particu-‐lar    concern,    as    is    the    emerging    resistance    to    anti-‐HIV    drugs.    Often,    more    expensive    medicines    are    required    to    treat    these    infections,    and    this    becomes    a    major    challenge    in    resource-‐poor    settings.
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                                                                PLoS ONE 9(6): e99880. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099880
Published June 17, 2014
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The Government of Botswana’s SRH Policy Guidelines and Service Standards document provides the framework for developing a responsive strategy and an implementation plan for SRHR and HIV&AIDS Linkages and Integration. The global call on governments to demonstrate commitments to intensify linkages b...etween sexual and reproductive health and HIV&AIDS at the policy and programme level is therefore an added opportunity for the government to review the current service provision model and optimize current resources to provide more integrated, comprehensive coordinated SRHR and HIV&AIDS services.
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                                                                Bull World Health Organ 2015;93:457–467 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.14.147215