Field and Installation Monitoring With Online Data Validation and Reconciliation - Middle East and West Africa Offshore Fields

The Meguma Group of southern Nova Scotia is a thick succession of mostly deep-water siliciclastic sedimentray rocks of uncertain age. Previous fossil finds have been in the Halifax Formation of the upper part of the sequence and have provided Early Ordovician ages. A newly discovered trilobite-bearing bed from the underlying Goldenville Formation yields Middle Cambrian taxa of Acado-Baltic affinity. Specimens belonging to Paradoxides (s.l.), Agraulos, Dorypyge, and Ellipsocephalidae indicate that the Meguma Group is an exotic succession with faunal similarity to the adjacent Avalon Terrane and to Middle Cambrian successions in Europe, the Middle East, and west Africa.

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A qualitative inquiry of access to and quality of primary healthcare in seven communities in East and West Africa (SevenCEWA): perspectives of stakeholders, healthcare providers and users

BMC Family Practice ◽

10.1186/s12875-021-01394-z ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Soter Ameh ◽

Bolarinwa Oladimeji Akeem ◽

Caleb Ochimana ◽

Abayomi Olabayo Oluwasanu ◽

Shukri F. Mohamed ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Insurance ◽

West Africa ◽

Primary Healthcare ◽

A Priori ◽

Healthcare Providers ◽

Health Coverage ◽

Health Seeking ◽

East And West ◽

Universal Health

Abstract Background Universal health coverage is one of the Sustainable Development Goal targets known to improve population health and reduce financial burden. There is little qualitative data on access to and quality of primary healthcare in East and West Africa. The aim of this study was to describe the viewpoints of healthcare users, healthcare providers and other stakeholders on health-seeking behaviour, access to and quality of healthcare in seven communities in East and West Africa. Methods A qualitative study was conducted in four communities in Nigeria and one community each in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in 2018. Purposive sampling was used to recruit: 155 respondents (mostly healthcare users) for 24 focus group discussions, 25 healthcare users, healthcare providers and stakeholders for in-depth interviews and 11 healthcare providers and stakeholders for key informant interviews. The conceptual framework in this study combined elements of the Health Belief Model, Health Care Utilisation Model, four ‘As’ of access to care, and pathway model to better understand the a priori themes on access to and quality of primary healthcare as well as health-seeking behaviours of the study respondents. A content analysis of the data was done using MAXQDA 2018 qualitative software to identify these a priori themes and emerging themes. Results Access to primary healthcare in the seven communities was limited, especially use of health insurance. Quality of care was perceived to be unacceptable in public facilities whereas cost of care was unaffordable in private facilities. Health providers and users as well as stakeholders highlighted shortage of equipment, frequent drug stock-outs and long waiting times as major issues, but had varying opinions on satisfaction with care. Use of herbal medicines and other traditional treatments delayed or deterred seeking modern healthcare in the Nigerian sites. Conclusions There was a substantial gap in primary healthcare coverage and quality in the selected communities in rural and urban East and West Africa. Alternative models of healthcare delivery that address social and health inequities, through affordable health insurance, can be used to fill this gap and facilitate achieving universal health coverage.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: East and West Africa

Africa Research Bulletin Economic Financial and Technical Series ◽

10.1111/j.1467-6346.2010.03412.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 47 (7) ◽

pp. 18774A-18775C

Keyword(s):

West Africa ◽

East And West

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Middle East–Yemen Arab Republic–Asian Sub-Continent–East Africa–West Africa–Haiti–Colombia–Northern Ireland–Visits to political detainees

International Review of the Red Cross ◽

10.1017/s0020860400015588 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 13 (142) ◽

pp. 22-25

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Northern Ireland ◽

West Africa ◽

East Africa ◽

Prisoners Of War ◽

Arab Countries ◽

Yemen Arab Republic

ICRC delegates in Israel and the Arab countries have, in recent weeks, made several visits to prisoners of war. As usual, they talked with them without witnesses. In accordance with the established practice, reports are sent to the detaining authorities and to the prisoners' own governments.

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Drivers of Divergence: Textile Manufacturing in East and West Africa from the Early Modern Period to the Post-Colonial Era

Palgrave Studies in Economic History - Twilight of an Industry in East Africa ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-43920-0_6 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 205-239

Author(s):

Katharine Frederick

Keyword(s):

West Africa ◽

Early Modern ◽

Early Modern Period ◽

Colonial Era ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Textile Manufacturing ◽

Modern Period ◽

East And West

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Sexualities: Transsexualities: Middle East, West Africa, North Africa

Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures ◽

10.1163/1872-5309_ewic_com_002185 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

West Africa ◽

North Africa ◽

East West

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Willingness and ability to pay for healthcare insurance: A cross-sectional study of Seven Communities in East and West Africa (SevenCEWA)

PLOS Global Public Health ◽

10.1371/journal.pgph.0000057 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (11) ◽

pp. e0000057

Author(s):

Oladimeji Akeem Bolarinwa ◽

Soter Ameh ◽

Caleb Ochimana ◽

Abayomi Olabayo Oluwasanu ◽

Okello Samson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Insurance ◽

Secondary Education ◽

West Africa ◽

Willingness To Pay ◽

Healthcare Expenditure ◽

Health Insurance Scheme ◽

Insurance Scheme ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Ability To Pay ◽

East And West

Willingness and ability to pay for insurance that would cover primary healthcare services has not been evaluated consistently in different African communities. We conducted a cross-sectional community health survey and examined willingness and ability to pay in 3676 adults in seven communities in four countries: Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. We used an open-ended contingency valuation method to estimate willingness to pay and examined ability to pay indirectly by calculating the ratio of healthcare expenditure to total household income. Slightly more than three quarters (78.8%) of participants were willing to pay for a health insurance scheme, and just a little above half (54.7%) were willing to pay for all household members. Across sites, median amount willing to pay was $2 per person per month. A little above half (57.6%) of households in Nigeria were able to pay the premium. The main predictors of likelihood of being unwilling to pay for the health insurance scheme were increasing age [aOR 0.99 (95% CI 0.98, 1.00)], being female [0.68 (0.51, 0.92], single [0.32 (0.21, 0.49)], unemployment [0.54 (0.34, 0.85)], being enrolled in another health insurance scheme [0.45 (0.28, 0.74)] and spending more on healthcare [1.00 (0.99, 1.00)]. But being widow [2.31 (1.30, 4.10)] and those with primary and secondary education [2.23 (1.54, 3.22)] had increased likelihood of being willing to pay for health insurance scheme. Retired respondents [adjusted mean difference $-3.79 (-7.56, -0.02)], those with primary or secondary education [$-3.05 (-5.42, -0.68)] and those with high healthcare expenditure [$0.02 (0.00, 0.04)] predicted amount willing to pay for health insurance scheme. The willingness to pay for health insurance scheme is high among the seven communities studied in East and West Africa with socio-demography, economic and healthcare cost as main predictive factors.

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