"Ideational metrics provide important insights for programmes that aim to change health behaviours, including pregnancy and childbirth, and should be explored for other health areas as well." Antenatal care (ANC) and facility delivery are essential maternal health services, but uptake remains low in northwestern Nigeria.
"These findings suggest that when addressing long-term educational and fertility outcomes among very vulnerable adolescent girls, interventions that only target the girl herself may not be sufficient." Adolescent girls in Zambia face risks and vulnerabilities that challenge their healthy development into young women: early marriage and childbearing
".ideations like knowledge (cognitive), beliefs (cognitive), self-efficacy (emotional) and social influence (social) under the cognitive, emotional and social ideational dimensions provide significant insights for SBC [social and behaviour change] programs and policy makers to improve health behaviors around breastfeeding practices."
"Programs designed to increase levels of HIV testing should ensure they reach the populations most in need." KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province is a major epicentre of the South African HIV epidemic. It is home to large informal settlements that pose unique challenges and barriers in terms of accessing HIV services and care.