Life in urban areas presents special challenges for maternal child care practices. Data from a representative survey of households with children less than 3 years of age in Accra were used to test a number of hypothesized constraints to child care, including various maternal (education, employment, marital status, age, health, ethnic group, migration status) and household-level factors (income,...

BACKGROUND Source of potable water has implication on the population health. Availability of Improved Drinking Water Sources (IDWS) is a problem in developing countries, but variation exists across segments of the population. This study therefore examined the relationship between wealth status, sex of household head and source of potable water. METHODS The 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health ...

objectives: this paper investigates the relationship between social capital and collective action in some rural areas of fars province and at the same time study determining factors affecting the social capital formation. method: this research was carried out with survey method in the 12 villages of fars province and selected a sample of 509 head of households. findings: among indicators of soc...

BACKGROUND In November 2010, Sierra Leone distributed over three million long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) with the objective of providing protection from malaria to individuals in all households in the country. METHODS We conducted a nationally representative survey six months after the mass distribution campaign to evaluate its impact on household insecticide-treated net (ITN) o...

in this study, an effort has been made to determine the most important risk factors of tuberculosis (tb) in district mardan. a total of 645 cases were examined, and their personal and medical data were collected. for each case, the phenomenon of tb was studied in relation to different risk factors. statistical techniques of logistic regression and backward elimination procedure were used to ana...

The literature on vulnerability to flooding highlights the multiple dimensions of risk factors. However, little research has analysed joint effects environmental and social variables flood at household level in African cities. We use an interdisciplinary approach analyse differentiated significance these for status ‘flood victim’ Abidjan, major city Côte d’Ivoire. data used were collected a sur...

Immunization remains always a big challenge for Pakistan and the coverage has been reported significant low that results high morbidity, mortality reported due to vaccine preventable diseases. This study was part of quasi-experimental with control and intervention design and was conducted in primary Health care governmental Basic Health unit’s catchment population of Panjgur by interviewing hou...

OBJECTIVE To measure socioeconomic inequalities and differential risk in infant mortality on national and regional levels in Chile from 1990 to 2005, and propose new policy targets. METHODS The study analysed Chilean vital events registries from 1990 to 2005 for infant mortality by maternal education, head of household occupational status, cause, age and location of death. Annual infant morta...