Collaboration Between Preventive and Curative Health Sectors For Maternal and Child Care

Relation between Social Determinants of Maternal Health and Child Development: A Path Analysis

Background: Since several factors, rather than a single cause, contribute to developmental delay in children, identification of the condition's risk factors and their pathway of effects are critical to the design and implementation of appropriate intervention .This study aimed to determine the relation between social determinants of maternal health and child development in Iranian mothers and t...

Partnerships between the faith-based and medical sectors: Implications for preventive medicine and public health

Interconnections between the faith-based and medical sectors are multifaceted and have existed for centuries, including partnerships that have evolved over the past several decades in the U.S. This paper outlines ten points of intersection that have engaged medical and healthcare professionals and institutions across specialties, focusing especially on primary care, global health, and community...

Public preferences for prioritizing preventive and curative health care interventions: a discrete choice experiment.

BACKGROUND Setting fair health care priorities counts among the most difficult ethical challenges our societies are facing. OBJECTIVE To elicit through a discrete choice experiment the Belgian adult population's (18-75 years; N = 750) preferences for prioritizing health care and investigate whether these preferences are different for prevention versus cure. METHODS We used a Bayesian D-effi...

Maternal and Child Health

Maternal and child health.

The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved. doi:10.1093/eurpub/cki170 Advance Access publication February 9, 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....