objective: to explore the context, experiences and pathways of seeking abortion care among married women in a minority dominated urban slum community in mumbai city of india. materials and methods: a mixed-method study was conducted using a systematic random sampling method to select 282 respondents from the slum community. one fifth of these womenreported undergoing at least one induced aborti...

We determined the proportion of foreign-born persons with tuberculosis (TB) in Singapore. This proportion increased from 25.5% in 2004 to 37.6% in 2009. Unskilled workers from countries with high incidences of TB accounted for the highest number of and greatest increase in foreign-born TB case-patients.

Kishor Goswami Abstract The Multi-Fibre Agreement (MFA) of 1974 has been replaced by the Agreement on Textile and Clothing (ATC) in 1994. The new agreement eliminates all remaining textile and clothing quota restrictions from developing countries by 1 January 2005 and thus infuses more competition among countries such as China, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, etc., to increase market sha...

eginning with the important work of Murphy and Welch (1992), a great deal of recent research has attempted to document and explain the dramatic changes in the wage distribution that occurred during the 1980s (see also Katz and Murphy 1992). Practically every income group faced a decline in real wages during the 1980s. However, workers at the 33rd percentile experienced a 14 percent drop in the ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the contribution of psychological attributes (personality characteristics and coping styles) to the association between social class in childhood and adult health among men and women. DESIGN Partly retrospective, partly cross sectional study conducted in the framework of the Dutch GLOBE study. SUBJECTS Sample of general population from south east Netherlands consistin...

139 persons who contacted The Regional Hospital, Trondheim, between 1 January and 1 September for whiplash injury caused by a car crash from behind were asked whether they still had problems six months or more after the accident. 51% reported having symptoms and 12% reported serious problems. Five persons were still out of work because of the neck injury. 63% of the questioned persons were fema...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century a separate team of women called the "night watch" was responsible for the night nursing in the London teaching hospitals. Rough, uneducated, and frequently the "scrubbers," or charwomen, who cleaned the halls and stairways in the hospitals in the daytime, the night watchers came to be closely identified with Dickens's Sarah Gamp. As the century progres...

Although immigration of workers generates a positive externality on members of domestic pension systems, many countries are very reluctant to allow foreigners into their labor markets. In a political economic framework, we explain this voting outcome by considering a young unskilled median voter who faces – in addition to a reduction of contribution rates – negative effects from immigration as ...

Morality rates for various social groups within the population of Finland were compared, using 179 919 death certificates for the period 1969-72. Morality was generally lowest in the highest social groups and highest among unskilled workers. Male mortality from coronary heart disease was also high among lower salaried employees. In the less developed area of northern Finland, female mortality f...