Uganda suffers from a high rate of child mortality which has improved little if at all in the last twenty years. The paper uses data from the 1992 Integrated Household Survey to model the determinants of child mortality and malnutrition. Parental beliefs about health have a strong and very highly significant influence on child mortality. Education and income also play a role, partly coming thro...

Online health behaviour interventions have great potential but their effectiveness may be hindered by a lack of formative and theoretical work. This paper describes the process of formative research to develop theoretically and empirically based health messages that are culturally relevant and can be used in an online intervention to promote healthy lifestyle behaviours among new university stu...

background: we aimed to assess the impact of health workers’ training program on preventive behaviors of leishmaniosis based on basnef (belief, attitude, subjective norm, and enabling factors) model in the families under the coverage of health centers. methods: the study was done in rural health centers of marvdasht city, fars province, iran in 2011. health workers completed a specific question...

introduction: new organization’s success depends on the efficient use of human resources in this study, we aimed to estimate the staffing needs in hospitals of shiraz university of medical sciences (sums) according to model proposed by the ministry of health and medical education in 2012. method: this is a cross-sectional definitive study conducted in three general and six specialized sums hosp...

BACKGROUND Control beliefs are important psychological factors that likely contribute to heterogeneity in health outcomes for older adults. We evaluated whether control beliefs are associated with risk for 4-year mortality, after accounting for established "classic" biomedical risk factors. We also determined if an enhanced risk model with control beliefs improved identification of individuals ...

Health attributions influence health beliefs and subsequent health behaviors. Health attributions are partly shaped by culture. In turn, cultural health attributions affect beliefs about disease, treatment, and health practices. Likewise, culture influences health and healing practices. Certain cultures have culture-bound syndromes about which medical practitioners should be trained. Other soci...