OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess rates of Papanicolaou (Pap) testing and associations between religion-related factors and these rates among a racially and ethnically diverse sample of American Muslim women. MATERIALS AND METHODS A community-based participatory research design was used in partnering with the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago to recruit Muslim women atten...

BACKGROUND Screening rates for breast and cervical cancer for Muslim women in the United States are low, particularly for first-generation immigrants. Interpretations of the Muslim faith represent some of the barriers for breast and cervical cancer screening. Working to understand how faith influences breast and cervical screening for Somali women, and working with the community to identify and...

Objectives: To identify the physical findings of hair loss in women who wear hijab. illustrate on examination that warrant additional care by a dermatologist and suggested treatment recommendations. Hair hijab-wearing individuals is cause major concern for patients families. Early diagnosis are crucial to prevent permanent scarring alopecia improve quality life these patients. Hijab cloth worn ...

public law is a branch of legal sciences whose principal mission is to shed light on the one hand, the rules dominating the reports of internal government, and secondly, the relationship between rulers and governed, and that supranational relations. public law, like other scientific disciplines, contains a number of concepts and rules whose main knowledge is needed to better understand the issu...

We ask and answer questions every day. But beneath these seemingly straightforward interchanges lie a series of cognitive and communicative processes, which when better understood allow for better understanding of how cultures and questions influence answers (for reviews see Schwarz, 1999; Sirken et al., 1999; Sudman, Bradburn, & Schwarz, 1996; Tourangeau, Rips, & Rasinski, 2000). In answering ...

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Legislators, jurists, and advocates often turn to science to solve complicated normative problems addressed by the law. This article addresses what motivates these parties, surveys the psychology of law and its concepts of the person and responsibi l i ty, and describes the general relat ion of neuroscience to law in terms of the issue of “translation.” Numerous distractions have clouded our un...