background and purpose: equity in access to health care has become a desirable policy objective. therefore, accessibility to health care should be provided based on health needs rather than socio- demographic variables. this will lead to a better utilization of health care and improvement of equity in health. the aim of this paper is to examine the effects of family socio-economic status as an ...

Objective To find lower and upper bounds of HIV prevalence in Malawi under mild and intuitive assumptions to assess the importance of the refusal issue in the estimation of HIV prevalence. Methods We derive bounds based on the following two key assumptions: (i) Among those who have never taken an HIV test before, those who refuse to take an HIV test (hereafter “refusers”) have at least as much ...

Age of the couples is one of the most basic and important information collected in almost all demographic and health surveys. This particular study makes an attempt in exploring the extent of age difference and the change over time among the couples in India. It also analyses the impact of other socio-economic, demographic and cultural factors in explaining the variation in age difference among...

this research work is aimed at identifying personality traits, mental disorders and demographic features predicting divorce among couples in tehran. the research method is casual-comparative and the sample was selected using the clustering sampling method. to select the sample, 3 judicial complexes were selected randomly from among the family judicial complexes in tehran, iran, and from among t...

introduction: successful interaction between people requires motivation and social influence. therefore, the purpose of the present research was to study the relationship between the 11 indices of social influence of heads of departments from the viewpoint of faculty members at isfahan university of medical sciences and its relation with demographic characteristics in academic year of 2008-2009...