Handbook for Wives and Mothers in India

Handbook for Wives and Mothers in India

Handbook for Health Visitors in India

This invaluable handbook should be of the greatest service to health visitors and to all those, whether doctors, nurses or others, who have to do with the training of health visitors or the organization of childwelfare work in India. It is meant to be used along with another book by the same author, Antenatal Work in India, published in 1930. The present volume therefore begins with the care of...

Regular Antenatal Care Visits Predict Good Knowledge Among Post-natal Mothers Regarding Entitlements of Health Programs in Western India

Janani-Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK) and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) were launched with the objective of increasing institutional deliveries. But, its knowledge among the post-natal mothers is not known. This research evaluated the knowledge of two national health programs among post-natal mothers and found out the predictors of good knowledge about the entitlements...

بررسی عوامل موثر بر سوء تغذیه درکودکان زیر 5 سال مراجعه کننده به مراکز بهداشتی درمانی شهر زاهدان درسال 1380

Malnutrition is one of the most important factors of prevalence of diseases and mortality in children. On the other hand , identification of causative agents of malnutrition and prevention and control of disease is very crucial . This study was done for evaluation of risk factors in  malnourished children under 5 years old in Zahedan.     &nb...

Sex-ratio biasing towards daughters among lower-ranking co-wives in Rwanda.

There is considerable debate as to whether human females bias the sex ratio of their offspring as a function of their own condition. We apply the Trivers-Willard prediction-that mothers in poor condition will overproduce daughters-to a novel measure of condition, namely wife rank within a polygynous marriage. Using a large-scale sample of over 95 000 Rwandan mothers, we show that lower-ranking ...