Community midwife is a character in the community who assists the mother during childbirth and primary maternity care (1). In public health, midwife is playing a positive role, promotes health care system for mother and child, and brings the good change in the maternal health conditions and newborn baby (2). Community midwife have a multipurpose role in maternal health, public health. In all th...

This study, carried out during the second half of 1995, investigated the predisposing factors leading to marital disruption and its consequences on the lives of women in Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used. Data were generated from detailed case studies and quantitative surveys of a small number of maritally-disrupted women. Additional data we...

BACKGROUND There is limited research on how the empowerment of women and intimate partner violence (IPV) are associated with skilled birth attendance (SBA) among rural women in Uganda. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to investigate the association between women's empowerment, their experience of IPV and SBA in rural Uganda. METHODS Using data from the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey...

Maternal nutritional status and weight gain throughout pregnancy affect the outcome of pregnancy. The objective of this study was to determine prepregnancy body mass index and total weight gain during pregnancy in women from rural areas of Guilan province, Iran. Prenatal and obstetrical records of 480 pregnant women who attended rural health centers between 2002 and 2003 including prepregnancy ...

Background: Ascariasis and trichuriasis are the most common intestinal geohelminthic diseases, and as such they are significant in terms of clinical and public health. This study was done to determine prevalence, status and geographic distribution patterns for Ascariasis and Trichuriasis. The study was done in the period 1991-2014 in northern Iran using Aregis 9.2 software. Methods: This was...

participation is a process in which people involved to make endeavors aiming at a common goal; and they do this actively, freely with awareness and accountability. women participation as one of the principles for development can be studied from different perspectives. the objective of the present study is to investigate social and cultural factors influencing social participation of rural women...

BACKGROUND Improvements in socioeconomic conditions and population health have been linked to declining age at menarche. In China, secular trends in age at menarche following extensive economic reform during recent decades have not been thoroughly investigated. This study examined the overall trend in age at menarche and assessed differences in the rate of change of age at menarche over time, a...

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...