BACKGROUND The aim of the current study was to explore the relationship between housework and health of retired older adults, and to provide new evidences and clues for the effects of housework on health. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The data came from the baseline survey of the Tongji-Dongfeng Cohort Study with 25,501 participants. The independent variable was housework including child car...

BACKGROUND Household air pollution (HAP) from cooking with solid fuels has become a leading cause of death and disability in many developing countries including Bangladesh. We assess the association between HAP and risk of selected adverse birth and maternal health outcomes. METHODS Data for this study were extracted from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey conducted during 2007-2014. Se...

House-flies, Musca domestica, are carriers of more than 100 devastating diseases that have severe consequences for human and animal health. A key bottleneck to progress in controlling the devastating human diseases transmitted by house-flies is lack of knowledge of the basic molecular biology of this species. However, before sequencing of the house-fly genome can be seriously considered it is i...

This study aims to analyze the characteristics of traditional Buginese houses and positive features that are beneficial response sustainability pandemics through literature studies field observations. The results show were built based on local wisdom environmental consideration from philosophy “ Sulapa Eppa " (rectangular) with meaning "Universe". building typology is a stilt house consisting t...

Introduction On January 16, 2007, the Health and Human Services Committees and the Appropriations Health Subcommittees of both the Georgia House and Senate, with support from the Georgia Health Policy Center, sponsored a session to help legislators understand Certifi cate of Need (CON) within a range of health care system issues. The session, attended by more than 91 Georgia legislators, provid...

House and Ball communities (HBCs), represent a prime context for human immunodeficiency virus prevention with African American young men who have sex with men and transgender persons. This study sought to understand the composition and function of social support and sexual networks of HBC members in Los Angeles, California (N = 263). Participants were recruited using venue-based sampling and as...

This paper examines downward price rigidity in Iranian house market and discusses whether this characteristic would result in an asymmetric relationship between house price and monetary policy. To test the downward house price rigidity the threshold GARCH model is employed. The asymmetric adjustment to monetary policy is examined using the asymmetric cointegration and error correction models. T...

Background: In India, undernutrition in children mal the age of five is a serious public health issue. Despite India's expanding economy, both urban and rural areas still have significant rates undernutrition-related child mortality. There are hardly many studies that concentrate on cities. order to determine prevalence field practice area medical college Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, current s...