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Chong, Susan. "Chinese women's experiences of accessing mental health services." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42184.
Full textFredericks, Bronwyn L. "Us Speaking about Women's Health: Aboriginal women's perceptions and experiences of health, well-being, identity, body and health services." Thesis, Central Queensland University, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/13909/1/FREDERICKS%2C_B.L._PHD.pdf.
Full textLeGrow, Tracy L. "Access to health information and health care decision-making of women in a rural Appalachian community." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2007. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=746.
Full textKabakian-Khasholian, Tamar. "Improving women's health postpartum : the impact of provision of written information." Thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269771.
Full textPaudel, Deepak Raj Orapin Pitakmahaket. "Women's autonomy and utilization of maternal health services in Nepal /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd392/4838764.pdf.
Full textSubramanian, Shobana. "Reconfiguring home, world and cosmos health initiatives in women's self-help groups in Kanyakumari, India /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1150483913.
Full textGuo, Sufang Oratai Rauyajin. "Health service utilization of women with reproductive tract infections in rural China /." Abstract, 1999. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2542/42E-GuoSufang.pdf.
Full textIbrahim, Ghada. "The role of the health system in women's utilisation of maternal health services in Sudan." Thesis, City, University of London, 2015. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17079/.
Full textMillar, Tracy. "A discourse analysis of young women's accounts of acute psychiatric hospitalisation." Thesis, University of London, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252232.
Full textNgula, Asser Kondjashili. "Women's perception on the under utilization of intrapartum care services in Okakarara district, Namibia." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
Full textSsali, Sarah Evelyn Nabwire. "The impact of health user fees on women's role in household health care decision-making in Mukono District, Uganda : a gender analysis." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269191.
Full textWiles, Rose. "The impact of pregnancy on fat women's body image and eating practices." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316569.
Full textMoyle, Jodie L. "Centred voices : A study of the lived experience of women's health centre coordinators." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1999. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1221.
Full textGordon, Roberta June. "Pregnant women's perception and application of health promotion messages at community health centres." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
Full textMendoza, Jennifer Adams. "Rationality and Reproduction: Health Insurance Coverage and Married Women's Fertility." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2617.pdf.
Full textLadha, Rishma. "South Asian Women's Perspectives about Pregnancy Needs and Utilization of Canadian Prenatal Health Services." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28775.
Full textAregbesola, Temi. "Nigerian Women's Empowerment Status and its Influence on Access to Reproductive Health Services." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2308.
Full textBoyes, Allison. "Women's selection and evaluation of obstetric hospitals a survey of the Northern Sydney area /." Connect to full text, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/393.
Full textTitle from title screen (viewed Apr. 16, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Health to the Dept. of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine. Degree awarded 1999; thesis submitted 1998. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.
Tshililo, Takalani Yolanda. "Migrant women's access to public health care services in Makhado, Limpopo: a case of Zimbabwean women." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32369.
Full textGubhaju, Bina Matsumura Masaki. "Women's status, household structure and the utilization of maternal health services in Nepal /." Abstract, 2000. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2543/43E-Bina-G.pdf.
Full textMiller, Paige Lynn. "Barriers Preventing Access to Health Care Services for Women in Rural Samoa." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1136389101.
Full textWeber, Amy Judith, Olubunmi Kuku, and Edward Leinaar. "Differences in Access to Contraceptive Services Between Rural and Non-Rural Clinics in South Carolina." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2018/schedule/125.
Full textWitter, Sophie. "Making delivery care free : evidence from Ghana and Senegal on implementation, costs and effectiveness of national delivery exemption policies." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=25753.
Full textMheta, Doreen. "Health systems factors that impact on access to maternal services for women with disabilities in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16656.
Full textMaternal mortality is an enormous global challenge that is most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Its prevalence in the SSA region has been attributed to inadequate access to maternal services (MHS) amongst the poor and rural women. In an attempt to improve access to maternal services, women with disabilities (WWDs) have generally been neglected. Little is known about the health systems factors that facilitate or hinder access to MHS for WWDs. However, available studies for women in general in SSA, examining health systems determinants of access to MHS, utilise the silo approach thereby providing fragmented and ineffective solutions to maternal mortality. Globally, taking a comprehensive health systems approach to understand the full range and interconnectedness of health factors is now recognised as crucial in understanding and planning complex health problems such as access to MHS. This paper presents findings from a qualitative systematic review of empirical studies providing evidence on the health systems factors that impact on access to MHS for WWDs in SSA. This dissertation comprises three sections, namely Part A, Part B and Part C. Part A reviews the Protocol; it presents the background and the qualitative systematic review methodology that is utilised in this study. A systematic search of five data bases is outlined and inclusion and exclusion criteria set out to select the suitable tool. A data extraction tool is designed to summarise the studies in a common format and to facilitate synthesis and coherent presentation of data. Part B is the review of existing empirical literature on access to MHS for both women in general SSA and for WWDs globally. Theoretical frameworks of access to health care services and health systems frameworks are also presented in this section. Furthermore, Part B provides the background on why access to MHS for WWDs is important. This section explores how health systems approach can be adopted to reveal the factors that impact on access to MHS; it links the complex systems framework to the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality framework. Part C is a complete systematic review journal manuscript. The background of the study and methodology are described. This section also includes the findings from the systematic review of original journal articles published in English from 2000 to 2014 that report empirical findings on health systems factors that impact on access to MHS WWDs in SSA.
Ling, Bih-yu Anne. "An exploration into the problems and adjustment of gynaecological cancer patients in Hong Kong, with implications for social work practice /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12325855.
Full textWhitener, Louise M. "Using Hongvivatana's model to evaluate health care access : a field study of adolescent women's access to reproductive health care services in rural Missouri counties /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9974703.
Full textApartsakun, P. "Thai women's breastfeeding experiences and support needs." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/381571/.
Full textChou, Jeanie. "Introducing mental health issues in an Asian Ameican [sic] women's ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textAn integrative project submitted to the Faculty of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Religion. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-57).
Chan, Suk-fong Cecilia. "Coping and adaptation : women with breast cancer /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1985. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12322325.
Full textPolimeni, Anne-Maree, and Anne-Maree Polimeni@dhs vic gov au. "Narrative of women's hospital experiences the impact of powerlessness on personal identity." Swinburne University of Technology, 2004. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20050309.143640.
Full textCooper, Diane. "Women's social position and their health : a case study of the social determinants of the health of women in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14955.
Full textThis thesis examines the social determinants of women's health status, health knowledge and knowledge and use of health services in a peri-urban area, using Kbayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa as a case study. It argues for the importance of women's health as a specific focus, looks at some trends in women's health internationally over the past two decades and reviews the main factors affecting women's health. Some key issues in women's health of special relevance to developing countries such as South Africa are discussed. There is a special focus on newly urbanised women in peri-urban areas. Against this background the results of a community-based survey, preceded by indepth interviews, and conducted amongst 659 women in Kbayelitsha in 1989 and 1990 are presented. Data collected were statistically analysed using unIvariate,, bivariate and multivariate analysis. A number of priority social and health problems are identified: poverty; poor environmental conditions; lack of education, partlcularly skills training appropriate for finding work and the subordinate social status of women. Major health concerns included reproductive tract infections, especially sexually transmitted diseases, infertility, contraceptive use and ante-natal care during pregnancy. There were inadequacies in cervical screening conducted by health services and deficiencies in respondents' knowledge of AIDS. cervical smears and where to obtain various health services . Young, newly urbanised women, living in the poorly serviced and unserviced informal housing areas were partlcularly vulnerable in their socio-economic and health status within a peri-urban African community such as Khayelitsha. They also had poorest health knowledge and least knowledge of where to acquire health services. Some recommended interventions focussing on certain of these areas are suggested. It is argued that changes in the provision of women's health services within a primary health care setting can only be part of the process of improving women's health. Improvements in women's economic status and their social status are fundamental to any initiatives to improve their health status.
O'Grady, Taylor Jacob. "Women's health care in American Catholic hospitals : a proposal for navigating ethical conflicts in accessing reproductive health care." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16588.
Full textBelton, Leigh Wiley. "Manager characteristics and support for worksite health promotion programs that target women in small, blue-collar worksites." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2249.
Full textReifferscheid, Gerd. "Soziales Geschlecht und ambulante Versorgung Medizinerinnen in der primärärztlichen Versorgung /." Köln : Universität zu Köln, 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/39009369.html.
Full textHoman, Sherri G. "Predicting repeat mammography screening for underserved women 50 years of age and older in Missouri /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9962532.
Full textDurdle, Jodi L. "Women, health and social change in a rural Newfoundland community." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ63977.pdf.
Full textHeath, Rodgers Theresa. "Work, household economy, and social welfare : the transition from traditional to modern lifestyles in Bonavista, 1930-1960 /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ54919.pdf.
Full textGesese, Kassahun Tegegne. "Migration and socio-demographic determinants of women's reproductive health services utilization in North Gondar, Ethiopia." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/35979.
Full textHuber, Jamie Lee. "UNEQUAL RIGHTS AND CONSTRAINED CHOICE: NARRATING WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES WITH IDENTITY, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES, AND ABORTION." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/382.
Full textGreenwood, Heather Louise. "Negotiating and Constructing Place: African Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Experiences Seeking Reproductive Health Information, Services and Support." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36617.
Full textPapada, Peggy. "Understanding women's experiences of psychotic phenomena." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2013. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/12502/.
Full textBommaraju, Aalap. "Determinants of Contraceptive Choice| Factors Affecting Contraceptive Nonuse among Urban Women Utilizing Title X Services." Thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1548538.
Full textBackground: Disparities in unintended pregnancy are partially due to ineffective contraceptive method choice among vulnerable populations. Improved understanding of the ecological, individual, and health system related determinants of contraceptive choice can provide guidance for how to reduce ineffective contraceptive method choice among women at high risk for unintended pregnancy.
Objectives: Secondary data analysis is performed on visit data from women utilizing Title X Family Planning services at the Cincinnati Health Department’s Reproductive Health & Wellness Program (RHWP) to determine the significance of predisposing factors (age, African- American race, education), enabling factors (income, health insurance status, socio-behavioral risks), need factors (having had a recent birth, number of living children) on choosing an ineffective contraceptive method. Mediation analysis is performed to determine if health system factors mediated the effect of these explanatory variables.
Methods: Using data from 1,119 RHWP clients who were not seeking pregnancy, multinomial logistic regression is used to compare pill, patch, and ring users, depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) users, and long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) users with a reference group of ineffective method users. Multinomial logistic regression is first performed with all independent variables except health system mediation. Then, it is performed with inclusion of health system mediation. Multiple linear regression analysis is performed to determine significant relationships between independent factors and health system mediation. Mediation analysis is performed for any independent variable that is significantly correlated with both contraceptive method choice and health system mediation for the purpose of determining if any witnessed mediation effect is statistically significant.
Results: The model including health system mediation is found to account for more variance in the data than the model excluding health system mediation (Nagelkerke R-squared = 0.195 and 0.158, respectively). Through both models, and in all three comparisons, higher age is found to reduce the odds of choosing a more effective method with only minor mediation effects. Having more children results in higher odds of both DMPA and LARC uptake in both models and is unmediated by the health system. Being of African-American race results in lower odds of LARC use in both models – a finding that is also not mediated by the health system. Health system mediation effects are found in the LARC and DMPA comparisons and not in the pills, patch, or ring comparison. In the DMPA comparison, inclusion of health system mediation eliminates income and insurance status as significant explanatory variables. In the LARC comparison, inclusion of health system mediation eliminates the explanatory significance of having a recent birth.
Conclusions: Analysis of the role of health system mediation suggests that health system level factors play a large role in explaining contraceptive choice among contraceptive methods that require increased health care utilization. The impact of health system mediation on the significance of other predisposing, enabling, and need variables implies that health care access, utilization, and quality are important factors that should be included in future models for understanding contraceptive choice.
Mofokeng, Shoeshoe. "Views of health service providers on the need for support services for HIV-positive mothers in the rural areas of Lesotho : an ecological perspective." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96969.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: HIV/AIDS is one of the worst pandemics affecting the world today. It cuts across all boundaries and many people are infected as well as affected. The virus has reached all the corners of the globe, but the most hit by it is Africa, especially southern Africa, which carries more than half of the population infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. The top five countries whose populationsare infected with HIV are in southern Africa. Lesotho is amongst the top three on this list and also has problems of poverty and a high unemployment rate. Women and children, who are the target groups that are most affected by poverty, are also those living in rural areas. Thus, being an HIV-positive mother living in the rural areas of Lesotho means one has to deal with poverty, the inaccessibility of services and the psychological impacts of HIV. The aim of the study was to gain a better understanding of the views of health service providers on the need and accessibility of support services for HIV-positive mothers in the rural areas of Lesotho from an ecological perspective. To achieve this aim, the objectives were: to offer an overview of the phenomenon of HIV and describe the psychosocial needs and sociocultural circumstance of HIV-positive mothers in the rural areas of Lesotho, and to discuss the HIV-positive mothers’ need for support services from an ecological perspective. Both quantitative and qualitative research approaches were used. The research utilised exploratory and descriptive design. Purposive sampling was used to select the 30 participants who took part in the study. Data was gathered by means of semi-structured questionnaires that were administered during individual interviews. The questionnaires were formulated on the basis of information retrieved during the literature review. The findings of the study reveal that HIV-positive mothers living in the rural areas of Lesotho have economic, social and cultural circumstance as factors hindering their treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS. They are also faced with the psychological impacts of HIV, and the findings revealed that disclosure was the key to addressing their problems. The findings also show that most mothers receivedemotional, instrumental, informational and appraisal support from their families at the micro-level of the ecological perspective. The other levels – meso, exo and macro – provided only limited support for the mothers. The recommendations are that these mothers need social support at all levels of the ecological perspective to meet their needs
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: MIV/vigs is een van die ergste pandemies in die moderne wêreld. Dit ken geen grense nie, en vele mense ly hetsy daaraan of daaronder. Die virus het reeds alle uithoeke van die aarde bereik. Tog gaan Afrika, veral Suider-Afrika, die swaarste daaronder gebuk, en word meer as die helfte van die totale populasie wat aan of onder MIV/vigs ly hier aangetref. Die vyf lande met die hoogste MIV-infeksiesyfers ter wêreld is almal in die streek geleë. Lesotho is een van die drie lande boaan hierdie lys, en het terselfdertyd te kampe met die probleme van armoede en ’n hoë werkloosheidsyfer. Vroue en kinders, synde die groepe wat die ergste deur armoede geraak word, woon ook meestal in landelike gebiede. ’n MIV-positiewe moeder in die landelike gebiede van Lesotho moet dus armoede, ontoeganklike dienste sowel as die sielkundige uitwerking van MIV trotseer. Die doel van hierdie studie was om vanuit die ekologiese perspektief ’n beter begrip te vorm van gesondheidsdiensverskaffers se sienings oor die behoefte aan en toeganklikheid van steundienste vir MIV-positiewe moeders in die landelike gebiede van Lesotho. Om hierdie doel te bereik, was die oogmerke om ’n oorsig van die MIV-verskynsel te bied, die psigososiale behoeftes en sosiokulturele omstandighede van MIV-positiewe moeders in die landelike gebiede van Lesotho te beskryf, en die moeders se behoefte aan steundienste vanuit die ekologiese perspektief te bespreek. ’n Kwantitatiewe sowel as ’n kwalitatiewe navorsingsmetode is gevolg, en die navorser het van ’n verkennende en beskrywende ontwerp gebruik gemaak. Doelgerigte steekproefneming is gebruik om die 30 studiedeelnemers te kies. Data is met behulp van semigestruktureerde vraelyste gedurende individuele onderhoude ingesamel. Die vraelyste is opgestel op grond van inligting wat in die literatuuroorsig bekom is. Die studie bevind dat ekonomiese, maatskaplike en kulturele omstandighede MIV/vigs-behandeling en -voorkoming vir MIV-positiewe vroue in die landelike gebiede van Lesotho belemmer. Daarbenewens moet hulle die sielkundige uitwerking van MIV die hoof bied, en die studie dui op openbaarmaking as die sleutel om hul probleme te hanteer. Die bevindinge toon ook dat die meeste moeders emosionele, fisiese, inligting- en bevestigende steun van hul families op die mikrovlak van die ekologiese perspektief ontvang. Die ander vlakke – meso, ekso en makro – bied slegs beperkte steun. Die studie kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat hierdie moeders op alle vlakke van die ekologiese perspektief maatskaplike steun moet ontvang om in hul behoeftes te voorsien.
AOYAMA, ATSUKO, SANEYA RIZK EL BANNA, MICHIYO HIGUCHI, NAGAH MAHMOUD ABDOU, NAWAL ABDEL MONEIM FOUAD, INASS HELMY HASSAN ELSHAIR, LEO KAWAGUCHI, and CHIFA CHIANG. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STATUS OF WOMEN AND INCREASED USE OF MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES IN RURAL EGYPT." Nagoya University School of Medicine, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/16734.
Full textKing, Rosemary. "Barriers and enablers to women's access to services during childbearing in Timor-Leste." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2019. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/169995.
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Stephenson, Winsome Beverly. "The Experiences of Obese African American Women and Their Utilization of Preventive Healthcare Services." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/nursing_diss/17.
Full textNicholl, Katherine Louise. "Is women's legal right of access to informed decision making in maternity care assured in New Brunswick?" [Moncton, N.B.] : New Brunswick Office of the Ombudsman, 2007. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/librarytitles/Doc?id=10222487.
Full textHilaire, Marie Isabelle Caroline. "Assessing Haitian Women's Vulnerability to Cervical Cancer Because of Socio-demographic Predictors of Care Access." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/iph_theses/185.
Full textSithole, Linet. "Women's right to access family planning and maternal health care services in Hwange rural district, Zimbabwe: challenges and opportunities." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Law, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/34007.
Full textShelton, Melissa E. "Identifying Communication Barriers and Trust Issues of Black Women Seeking Preventive Health Services in Houston, Texas." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3411.
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