Differentials in child mortality are analyzed by parent's education, health care, and rural-urban residence with data on 7405 currently married women, obtained from the Pakistan Contraceptive Prevalence Survey, 1984-85. The assumption is that educated parents and fathers working in the formal sector have less risks of child mortality than illiterates and those working in the traditional sector...

aim and background: the purpose of this study was to compare patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid) and normal persons in terms of alexithymia, severity of gastrointestinal symptoms, and demographic variables. methods and materials: this causal-comparative research included 129 fgid patients who were referred to a psychosomatic disorders clinic in isfahan, iran. a matched gr...

Nutrition plays a critical role in maternal and fetal health; however, research on error in the measurement of energy intake during pregnancy is limited. The authors analyzed data on 998 women living in central North Carolina with singleton pregnancies during 2001-2005. Second-trimester diet was assessed by food frequency questionnaire. Estimated energy requirements were calculated using Instit...

maqama has been introduced to the islamic east by badi' al-zaman al-hamadani and hariri. this type of prose gain popularity among andalusian writers, and some of them, such as sarakosti, al-wahrani, and al-azodi, created maqamat. literature is a mirror that reflects the economic and social characteristics of an era. however, the above-mentioned maqamat did not reflect the real role and of ...

OBJECTIVE This study examined whether the association between socio-economic status (SES) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in black South Africans from the North West Province had shifted from the more affluent groups with higher SES to the less affluent, lower SES groups over a period of nine years. METHOD Cross-sectional baseline data of 2 010 urban and rural subjects (35 years...

PURPOSE We evaluated the socio-personal and clinical factors that can affect preoperative quality of life to determine how to improve preoperative quality of life in patients with gastric cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS The preoperative quality of life data of 200 patients (68 females and 132 males; mean age 58.9±12.6 years) with gastric cancer were analyzed according to socio-personal and clin...

Status of women is the mirror of cultural and socio – economic development of our country. Women’s status and fertility are interrelated. Various factorsenvironmental, socioeconomic, biological, psychological or cultural factors affect fertility. There is a positive correlation between women’s status and their fertility. Educated women have low birth rate in comparison to uneducated women. The ...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether the probability of having heard about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination differs by socio-demographic characteristics among Colombian women; and whether the effect of predictors of having heard about HPV vaccination varies by educational levels and rural/urban area of residence. METHODS Data of 53,521 women aged 13-49 years were drawn from the 2010 Colombia...

Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2008. Among men, obesity prevalence is generally similar at all income levels, however, among non-Hispanic black and Mexican-American men those with higher income are more likely to be obese than those with low income. Higher income women are less likely to be obese than low income women, but most obese women are not low incom...