BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Malaria is the leading cause of death in children under 5-yr of age in the Republic of Guinea. This study aimed at investigating the knowledge, attitudes and practices of malaria control in urban and rural communities in Guinea in order to better target future health interventions. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of 200 randomly selected households was conducted in an...

In the wake of United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals—zero hunger and affordable modern/clean energy for all—many developing countries have taken serious steps in recent years to increase clean access rural population. The government Pakistan has similarly made numerous efforts promote use sources areas country. Therefore, this study examines households’ choices cooking lighting Pakistan...

Nigeria represents one of the paradoxes of development in which case the nation is rich but her people are poor. This study examines the rate of poverty among rural households in South western, Nigeria. A random multistage sampling was employed for the study. Ekiti and Osun states were randomly selected from the six states in South-western Nigeria. This was followed by random selection of two L...

BACKGROUND Smoking remains very common in Chinese men, and the economic burden caused by cigarette consumption on smokers and their families may be substantial. Using a large nationally representative household survey, the third National Health Services Survey (NHSS, 2003), we estimated the economic impact of smoking on households. METHODS Smoking status of all household members (over 15 year...

background: disparities in health may relate to differences in nutrition. among dietary determinants, socioeconomic status (ses) plays an important role. therefore, this study was aimed to investigate the association between ses and cooking pattern and consumed food among rural and urban iranian households.     methods: overall, 14,136 households were selected through single-stage cluster sampl...

Using population-based data from rural Vietnam, we assessed tuberculosis (TB) transmission within and outside of households. Eighty-three percent of persons with recent household TB were infected by different strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis than were their household members. This result argues against the effectiveness of active TB case finding among household members.