OBJECTIVES To understand the disease epidemiology of syphilis in pregnant women, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the screening and intervention programme, for the purpose of controlling mother-to-child syphilis transmission in Shenzhen, in the People's Republic of China (PRC). METHODS At the Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention (SZCDC), we used the toluidine red unheated se...

Research has evidenced support for the spillover model, which asserts that parents' marital functioning influences their parenting and coparenting behavior in dyadic (mother-child and father-child) and triadic (mother-father-child) family contexts. However, few studies have simultaneously investigated the spillover model in both parenting and coparenting systems, preventing examination of wheth...

PROBLEM Young workers are over-represented in injury statistics. In order to develop injury prevention strategies, this study investigated time trends and predictive factors relating to safety skills, confidence, and attitudes. METHOD Annual surveys were conducted from 2006-2009 among incoming students at the University of Adelaide. The questions addressed safety training, injury experience, ...

A process evaluation provides critical information that can inform the design and implementation of a programme. This study sought to provide examples of how to operationalize a process evaluation of an effective programme (Skills for Preventing Injury in Youth). A comprehensive definition of process evaluation was used which included assessing dose, adherence, quality of process, participant r...

Over the last 30 years, cheerleading has increased dramatically in popularity and has evolved from leading the crowd in cheers at sporting events into a competitive, year-round sport involving complex acrobatic stunts and tumbling. Consequently, cheerleading injuries have steadily increased over the years in both number and severity. Sprains and strains to the lower extremities are the most com...

Background: TheU.S.military leadership has recently increased its efforts to reduce the number of lost-workday injuries for both the active duty and civilian employee components of the total force. The detailed causes and circumstances of those nonfatal injuries—information needed for injury prevention—has largely been unexplored. The purpose of this project was to determine the utility of Air ...

Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death to children over age one in the USA. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Injury Research Agenda has identified supervision as one of five top research priorities [http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pubres/research_agenda/agenda.htm]. Sufficient research is lacking, however, on both methodological and theoretical issues. On August 14...

Background: AIDS, caused by HIV, is a global health threat that weakens the immune system and leads to life-threatening infections. India has been heavily affected HIV/AIDS epidemic due lack of accurate information prevention efforts. Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) significant factor in HIV spread. Knowledge status through voluntary counseling testing (VCT) crucial. Despite efforts, remain...

Background: Mother-to-child-transmission (MTCT) is one of the common modes Hepatitis B transmission.Though there improved childhood vaccination in India, MTCT accounts for about 50% newHepatitis infection. Preventing utmost importance decreasing feet B. Preventionrequires expectant mothers to be aware disease and understand consequences Btransmission their child. The study aimed determine knowl...