OBJECTIVE To examine sociodemographic and epidemiological factors associated with private health insurance coverage in the elderly. METHODS A total of 2,143 individuals aged 60 years or more were interviewed in the city of São Paulo in 2000 and 2006. Having private health insurance was the dichotomous dependent variable. Independent variables included sociodemographic characteristics and self...

prioritizing women's health helps achievement of the 4(th) and 5(th) goals of millennium development program. this study aimed to investigate association between social determinants of health and women's health of reproductive age.this population-based cross-sectional study, using multi-stage sampling procedure was conducted on 770, 15 to 49-year-old women residing in any one of the 22 municipa...

Self-monitoring of Blood Pressure (BP) among hypertensive patients is a significant for the management and prevention hypertension related complications such as atherosclerosis, Heart Failure (HF), Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), stroke, kidney disease, peripheral arterial disease.

Background: Preconception care is an organized and comprehensive program of health care that identifies and reduces woman’s reproductive risks before conception through risk assessment, health promotion, and interventions. This study aimed to assess knowledge, practice, and attitude of married women about preconception care and find out the association between the level of knowledge and p...

This study aims to determine whether son preference exists in Bangladesh and identify different sociodemographic factors that affected women's movement from one parity another parity. The analysis was carried out on 17006 women selected the Demographic Health survey of 2017-18 who at time interview met criteria being married had least living child. probability assessed using binary logistic reg...

OBJECTIVE To examine associations between sociodemographic factors (single parenthood, family income, education level, race), stress, and psychological distress among pediatric cancer patients and their mothers. METHODS Participants completed measures assessing sociodemographic variables, depressive symptoms, posttraumatic stress symptoms, general stress, and cancer-related stress within the ...