Health care providers in low-income countries often treat consumers poorly. Many providers
do not consider it their responsibility to listen carefully to consumer preferences, to facilitate …

Background Mass media exposure plays a pivotal role in health communication and
adoption of a healthy lifestyle. In this study, we aimed to measure the prevalence of malaria …

Malaria remains a major threat to public health. Long-Lasting Insecticide-treated Nets
(LLINs) and Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) have been widely adopted as important malaria …

Background Since 2007, BRAC has been implementing malaria prevention and control
programme in 13 endemic districts of Bangladesh under the National Malaria Control …

Poor knowledge among health care providers (including health workers and citizens) leads
to poor health outcomes. This article discusses current linear research-to-practice …

Context India has rudimentary and fragmented primary health care (PHC) and family
medicine systems, yet it also has the policy expectation that PHC should meet the needs of …

In many African countries where malaria is endemic, this life-threatening disease is a
leading cause of death. What role does education, in particular numeracy and literacy, play …

Access to reliable, relevant, and implementable healthcare information has been identified
as one of the key determinants for reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). 1 In …

This chapter argues for the importance of networking to promote the human rights of persons
with disability. The nature of relationships between people in a community can be seen as a …

Malaria continues to be a major public health problem around the world, and most
prominently on the African continent, with Sub-Saharan Africa carrying the largest burden of …