The research is focused on the political position of middle-class in selected area Banke and Bardiya district. objective to explore formation process, its position, orientation with connection caste/ ethnicity. It adopts structuralist theory relative class power model. has followed mixed method research. This study adopted gradational concepts measured them based self-perceived notion. Document...

Background The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed the Total System Effectiveness (TSE) framework to assist national policy-makers in prioritizing vaccines. The pilot was launched in Thailand to explore the potential use of TSE in a country with established governance structures and accountable decision-making processes fo...

background: obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) symptoms and the related disorders are subsumed under chronic psychiatric disorders which are of psychosocial and therapeutic importance. in most studies, the mean age of onset of significant ocd symptoms is adolescence period. the aim of this study was to evaluate ocd symptoms, tic disorder, body dysmorphic disorder (bdd) and trichotilomania amon...

anthropometric measurements is a simple and reliable tool for assessment of nutritional status of children. in this study height and weight of 23,170 middle class school children of 6-14 years in the city of shiraz and four rural areas were measured. results showed no difference among the rural and urban children. they were close to the third percentile of boston standard for height and weight ...

Background: The literature on Minorities’ Diminished Returns (MDRs) have shown worse than expected health of the members of racial and ethnic minority groups particularly Blacks. Theoretically, this effect can be in part due to weaker effects of educational attainment on preventive care and disease management in highly educated racial and ethnic minorities. Object...