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Chee,Grace|Smith,Kimberly| Kapinga,Adolph; Health fund Community Health Health Hanang district Tanzania; Health fund Community Health Health Hanang district Tanzania

This community based household study was designed to collect data on Reproductive Health in a rural area of Handeni District selected as a pilot area for a Community Based Distribution program. The study focussed on main reproductive health indicators (fertility, fertility regulation, maternal health and on knowledge...

Goergen,Regina|Mnzava,Agnes|Shah,Abdul; Reproductive health CBD Community Based Distribution Community Health Tanga; Reproductive health CBD Community Based Distribution Community Health Tanga

United Republic of Tanzania; Health Demographic indicators Demographic Burden of disease Dar es salaam Tanzania; Health Demographic indicators Demographic Burden of disease Dar es salaam Tanzania

United Republic of Tanzania; Burden of disease Health Demographic indicators Hai Tanzania; Burden of disease Health Demographic indicators Hai Tanzania

When patients bypass one health facility to seek care at another, strong preferences are revealed. The patterns of bypassing observed in Iringa Rural district in Tanzania show evidence of patients' understanding of various measures of quality at the facilities that they visit and bypass. We match two data sets that me...

Leonard, Kenneth L.|Mliga, Gilbert R.|Haile Mariam,Damen; Health facility Health Health Education Tanzania; Health facility Health Health Education Tanzania

The aim of this report was to address the case management of malaria in children under 5 years of age at primary health care facilities in Kibaha district and to evaluate the accuracy of self reported mothers or quardians information on chloroquine use in children as well as to indicate that health care services needs...

Tomson,G.|Gustafsson, L.L|Eriksen, J.|Warsame,M.; Malaria Respiratory problems Chloroquine Antibiotics Drug prescription Under-fives Tanzania; Malaria Respiratory problems Chloroquine Antibiotics Drug prescription Under-fives Tanzania

The HIV/AIDS (Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome) is reversing the gains which Tanzania an other Sub Saharan countries had realised in the field of health and socio-economic development. This reversal is reflected in a number of demographic, economic and health indicators. The rural popul...

MuhoE.P.Y.|Lwihula, G.K.

TB Tuberculousis Health Health system Tanzania; TB Tuberculousis Health Health system Tanzania

A 1999 survey of District Health Management Teams (DHMTs) in Tanzania provides information on the progress of the decentralization process in that country. The objectives of the survey were to monitor the extent of the decentralization process and to collect information on decentralization's achievements and limitatio...

Hutchinson,Paul; Decentralization Health management DHMT Health District health management Tanzania; Decentralization Health management DHMT Health District health management Tanzania

Four pooled Demographic and Health survey data sets are used to examine the determinants of contraceptive method choice in rural Tanzania in the period 1991 to 1999. The individual data is linked to facility surveys conducted in the same communities so that the impact of Tanzania's family planning program can be exami...

Chen, Susan|Guilkey,David K.; Contraceptive Contraceptive methods Determinants of contraceptive Rural Tanzania Health Nutrition; Contraceptive Contraceptive methods Determinants of contraceptive Rural Tanzania Health Nutrition

Domestic violence may cause change in sexual behaviour, for example, by influencing one to practise sexual promiscuity, polygyny or polyandry. An increase in any of the three is likely to increase risks of infection by the deadly human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV). The extent of the violence is likely to vary with sy...

Kayunze,Kim.A; Domestic violence HIV/AIDS Infection risk Marriage systems Bride wealth Morogoro,Arusha Health; Domestic violence HIV/AIDS Infection risk Marriage systems Bride wealth Morogoro; Arusha Health

UNICEF Tanzania Early childhood development Child development Children Gender & Children Population, Health and Nutrition; Health and Nutrition; UNICEF Tanzania Early childhood development Child development Children Gender & Children Population

Chandramohan, Daniel|Setel, Philip|Quigley, Maria; Verbal autopsy Autopsy Health Tanzania; Verbal autopsy Autopsy Health Tanzania

Background: The pattern of weight gain during pregnancy among

Msamanga, Gernard|Spiegelman, Donna|Antelman, Gretchen| Villamor,Eduardo|Fawzi, Wafaie W|Hunter, David J; The American journal of Nutrition; Weight gain Pregnancy HIV infection AIDS Multivitamins Vitamin A, Sub-Saharan Africa, Maternal health Prenatal nutrition Tanzania; Weight gain Pregnancy HIV infection AIDS Multivitamins Vitamin A; sub-Saharan Africa; Maternal health Prenatal nutrition Tanzania

In 1998, terrorists simultaneously bombed United States Embassies in Dar

Clack, Zoanne A.|Keim, Mark E.|Macintyre, Anthony G.|Yeskey, Kevin; Emergency health Risk management Health Tanzania; Emergency health Risk management Health Tanzania