Background Infertility is a significant public health problem and diagnosis and treatment are tense, invasive, and costly. Preconception interventions in infertile couples can increase the chance of pregnancy and lower its complications. The main goal to do this study is determine effect of the preconception diet and life style on fertility success in women undergoing IVF/ICSI treatment. Materi...

BACKGROUND Within the health system, limited attention is given to supporting the fertility and parenting desires on HIV-positive people. In this study, we explore health care providers' knowledge and perspectives on safer conception and alternate parenting strategies for HIV-positive people. METHODS Between November 2007 and January 2008, in-depth interviews were conducted with 28 health car...

The Effect of Child Care and Part Time Opportunities on Participation and Fertility Decisions in Italy Economic models of household behavior typically yield the prediction that increases in schooling levels and wage rates of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, as well as in other Southern European countries, low labor market participation...

The Effect of Child Care and Part Time Opportunities on Participation and Fertility Decisions in Italy Economic models of household behavior typically yield the prediction that increases in schooling levels and wage rates of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, as well as in other Southern European countries, low labor market participation...

OBJECTIVES There has been increased attention paid to cancer-related infertility and fertility preservation. However, how cancer patients decide whether or not to pursue fertility preservation has not been fully examined. METHODS The data come from 34 interviews with women in the USA diagnosed with breast cancer prior to 40 years of age who contemplated fertility preservation prior to ...

Due to substantial improvement in the diagnosis and treatment of gynaecologic cancers, a better understanding of patient care needs to be revised. We reviewed the literature related to fertility preservation strategies in gynaecological cancer and discussed current general management approaches. New technical modalities and patients' own desire for motherhood should be integral and paramount in...

Canada's original people consist of First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples. Their estimated population is 1.17 million. The total fertility rate for the period 1996-2001 was 2.6 for Aboriginal women versus 1.5 for Canada (Statistics Canada 2006). Thus, a high proportion of this rapidly growing segment of the population are children. Numerous articles have reviewed the health status of Canada's ...

Abstract The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one the instruments to counter fertility decline observed in many high-income countries. In recent past, large inflows low-skilled migrants have substantially increased supply services. this paper, we examine if immigration actually affected exploiting natural experiment occurred Italy 2007, when a inflow migrants—many...

This article examines integrality as one of the doctrinal principles of the Brazilian State Health Policy - the Unified Health System (SUS) - whose aim is to offer health care as a right and as a service. Integrality is the foundation around which managerial activity practices are organized and whose main challenge is guaranteeing access to the health care system's most complex assistance level...