introduction: the aims of the study were to investigate the health-related quality of life (hrqol) in students of shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences (iran) and to identify factors that might have associated with their hrqol. materials & methods: in 2010, 364 students with a cluster sampling method enrolled in the cross- sectional study. hrqol was assessed by using sf-39 questionnair...

abstract:- introduction: pesticides continue to be used in the farming industry despite to compelling evidence of their ill effects purely because of economic reasons. time and again attempts have been made to help farmers understand these risk. pesticide labels and  pictograms have been enforces as a means to propagate this risk information to the farmers in a simple and effective way. this hy...

abstract background: hazardous pesticides continue to be used in the farming industry purely because of economic reasons. farmers need to understand this risk. pesticide labels and pictograms were enforced to propagate this risk information to the farmers in a simple way. however, their effectiveness has not been evaluated in india. this study attempts to evaluate the efficacy of these labels a...

From 1985 to 2013, the mean birth weight of infants in Japan decreased from 3120 g to 3000 g, and the low-birth-weight rate among live births increased from 6.3% to 9.6%. No prospective study has elucidated the risk factors for poor fetal growth and preterm birth in recent Japanese parents, such as increased parental age, maternal body figure, assisted reproductive technology (ART), and socioec...

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of overweight and its association with socioeconomic and environmental factors, ownership of household goods, maternal nutritional status, and healthcare in preschoolers. METHODS Cross-sectional study with 954 preschoolers from the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, 2006. Multiple logistic regression with hierarchical modeling was conducted. Odds ratios for overw...

historically, the majority of immigrants to the united states came from european countries. the 1965 immigration reform act (ira) fundamentally changed the configuration of immigrants to the united states. the largest immigrant communities now consist of latin americans, asians, and africans. another important development in immigrant communities in the past few decades has been the growth of a...

background: the current study estimated the national prevalence rate of intimate partner violence against women (ipvaw) in nepal. besides, the individual level, empowerment level, family and societal level factors were assessed to relate with the victims of ipavw in nepal. methods: nationally representative sample of 4210 women of reproductive age (15-49 yr) were included in the study. househol...

Abstract Maternal mortality is one of the socio-economic problems and widely considered a serious indicator quality health. Ethiopia to be top six sub-Saharan countries with severe maternal mortality. The objective this study was investigate effects Demographic Socio-economic determinant factors in Ethiopia. Data from 2016 Health Survey indicated that sample women (15–49) (n = 10,103). Bayesian...

objective: to study the association between social, demographic, cultural and maternal care practice variables and obstetric fistula status in ethiopia. materials and methods: the most recent ethiopia demographic and health survey conducted in 2005 is used to study the association between social, demographic, cultural and maternal care practice and obstetric fistula. we use both univariate and ...