NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT.

Changes in abortions and births and the Texas parental notification law.

BACKGROUND On January 1, 2000, Texas began enforcement of a law that requires physicians to notify a parent of a minor child seeking an abortion at least 48 hours before the procedure. METHODS We assessed changes in the rates in Texas of abortions and births (events per 1000 age-specific population) before enforcement of the parental notification law (1998 to 1999) and after enforcement (2000...

Transporting minors for immoral purposes: the case for the Child Custody Protection Act & the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act.

Community Notification of Maternal, Neonatal Deaths and Still Births in Maternal and Neonatal Death Review (MNDR) System: Experiences in Bangladesh

Objectives: The aim of the study was to examine the process of community maternal, neonatal deaths and still births notification within the Bangladesh government health structure using the Maternal and Neonatal Death Review (MNDR) system. The study also explored the feasibility and acceptance of community death notification in the MNDR system. Methods: The study was undertaken in the Thakurgaon...

Tehran Survey of Potential Risk Factors for Multiple Births

Background The incidence of multiple pregnancies has increasing worldwide and it is related to concern in the health care system. This study was aimed to determine the frequencyof multiple pregnancies, and to identify factors affecting the frequency of the phenomena in Tehran, Iran. MaterialsAndMethods In this cross sectional study, 5170 mothers in labor between July 6 to 21 2015 referred to 10...

a comparative pragmatic analysis of the speech act of “disagreement” across english and persian

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...