BACKGROUND Multiple micronutrient deficiencies during pregnancy in Vietnam may contribute to poor fetal growth and stunting, which are major determinants of the health and development offuture generations. OBJECTIVE We assessed the effects of prenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation on maternal weight gain during pregnancy, infant birthweight, and height of the child at around 2 years ...

Henriksson, D. K. 2017. Health systems bottlenecks and evidence-based district health planning. Experiences from the district health system in Uganda. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1371. 71 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0066-5. In low-income countries where maternal and child mortality remains high, there is ...

1 Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, No. 250, Wuxing Street, Xinyi District, Taipei 110, Taiwan 2Department of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University-Wan Fang Hospital, No. 111, Section 3, Xinglong Road, Wenshan District, Taipei 116, Taiwan 3Master Program for Clinical Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacoproteomics, School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical Universit...

This study examined differences in Texas middle school student achievement in science by school district enrollment size. Quantitative research utilized analysis of variance to determine whether significant differences existed between student achievement on the 2010 Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills 8 th grade science results and four school district enrollment size groups. A significant...

BACKGROUND Infant mortality rate (IMR) is a key public health indicator. Maternal age is a well-known determinant of pregnancy and delivery complications and of infant morbidity and mortality. In Italy the Infant Mortality Rate was 3.7/1000 during 2005, lower than the average IMR for the European Union (4.94/1000). Sicily is the Italian region with the highest IMR, 5/1000, and neonatal mortalit...

BACKGROUND Although there is widespread agreement that strong district manager decision-making improves health systems, understanding about how the design and implementation of capacity-strengthening interventions work is limited. The Ghana Health Service has adopted the Leadership Development Programme (LDP) as one intervention to support the development of management and leadership within dis...

The growth of the Chinese district heating sector has been very rapid during recent years. No other country in the world can show the same rapid growth of district heating systems during the last decades. Heated building area increased six times between 1995 and 2008 according to the Chinese district heating statistics. China has also enjoyed strong growth of scientific articles and papers publ...

In July 1996, an outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection occurred among schoolchildren in Sakai City, Osaka, Japan. This outbreak developed in 13 North-East District and 34 Middle-South District elementary schools in the city. All children hospitalized on July 17-19 had presented on July 8 (North-East District) and July 9 (Middle-South District). School lunches served on July 1 and 8 in ...

khuzestan province and other western provinces of the country have been mostly affected by the impacts of the imposed war of iraq against iran and due to this impact have experienced special changes. as one of these changes, we could mention the phenomenon of the migration. these areas have experienced different forms of migrations such as exterior, interior, return migration and even the accep...

for a long time, the concept of sustainability and unsustainability, the ways to assess them, and the factors involved in the process of various areas of scienc, especially the environmental ones. sustainability in rural areas as human settlements depends heavily on a series of factors including environmental and socio-economic factors. this paper aims at introducing fuzzy set theory and the ex...