Women health extension workers: Capacities, opportunities and challenges to use eHealth to strengthen equitable health systems in Southern Ethiopia.

Objectives: This study assesses the feasibility of female health extension workers (HEWs) using eHealth within their core duties, supporting both the design and capacity building for an eHealth system project focussed initially on tuberculosis, maternal child health, and gender equity.

Participants: Health extension workers, Health Centre Heads, District Health Officers, Zonal Health Department and Regional Health Bureau representatives in Southern Ethiopia.

Setting: The study was undertaken in Southern Ethiopia with three districts in Sidama zone (population of 3.

Health visitors' perceptions of barriers to health and wellbeing in European migrant families.

Since 2004 the population of European migrant workers and their families living in the UK has increased. In 2012 a small qualitative pilot study was conducted involving interviews with eight health visiting professionals working in a Merseyside borough in the north west of England. Health visitors were asked about their perceptions of barriers to health and wellbeing faced by European migrant families and common challenges experienced in practice.