Health care providers' opinions can influence how parents place their infant to sleep. Neonatal nurses can improve how they teach and model safe infant sleep practices to parents. To increase neonatal nurses' knowledge, a sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) prevention program was implemented. Program components included a computerized teaching tool, a crib card, sleep sacks, and discharge instr...

This paper uses the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data collected in 1992-93 to estimate the determinants of child (aged 6 to 14) enrollment and educational attainment of a recent cohort (aged 15 to 19) in India. The analysis produces five major results. First, using an index of assets as a proxy for household wealth shows enormous gaps between the enrollment and attainment of children fr...

In several high and middle-income economies, the prices of nutritious foods are high, increasing. However, less is known about these in low-income countries. Using unique food price data from 116 markets Ethiopia, we find that real all nutritionally-rich groups increased significantly (between 21 74 percent) 2005 to 2018. This contrasts with staple crops (grains, roots tubers), whose only sligh...

OBJECTIVE This report presents national estimates of fertility, family planning, and reproductive health indicators among females 15-44 years of age in the United States in 2002 from Cycle 6 of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). For selected indicators, data are also compared with earlier cycles of the NSFG. METHODS Descriptive tables of numbers and percentages are presented and int...

In its simplest form, coarctation of the aorta (CoA) refers to congenital narrowing thoracic aorta. Usually, a significant pressure gradient between arms and legs is suggestive diagnosis. With advancement aortic imaging in our country many CoA patients are diagnosed at an adult age, but management still carries challenge. We reported case 30-year-old lady with aneurysm involving proximal left s...

The breast-feeding practices of a series of postpartum women, who had undergone prior reduction mammaplasty by means of an inferior pedicle approach, are reported in this retrospective study. Also identified are the factors that influenced the decision to breast-feed postoperatively. From a patient pool of 544 individuals who elected to have reduction mammaplasty between 1984 and 1994 (age rang...