Javanese is one of Indonesia's main ethnic groupings. In daily life, culture influences people's conduct, particularly the custom maternal care. During pregnancy care, adhere to their predecessors' traditions, which have become generations-old customs. This article employs a literature review approach describe behavior people in carrying out care according culture. Many continue believe and mat...

BACKGROUND The widening socioeconomic gap in smoking during pregnancy remains a challenge to the Swedish antenatal care services. However, the influence of cultural factors in explaining the socioeconomic differences in smoking during pregnancy is not clear among the immigrant women. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the development of smoking prevalence among pregnant immigrant ...

background: metabolic syndrome (mets) is a complex clustering cardiovascular risk factors such as abdominal obesity, hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidemia. it has been a growing health problem in iranian adults in recent decade. the objective of this article was to review the prevalence of mets and the corresponding risk factors among iranian adults.methods: we conducted a systematic review t...

Women entrepreneur has gained utmost importance in the past few decades Malaysia due to their significant contribution country's economic development. However, business challenges create a constant obstruction for many women entrepreneurs such as lack of ICT knowledge, time constraint learn ICT, technological expertise, etc. The present study aims identify effect adoption on performance and exa...

BACKGROUND There is limited reliable information on abortion in Iran, where abortion is illegal and many women of reproductive age seek clandestine abortion to end their unintended pregnancy. This study aims to examine the determinants of induced abortion in the city of Hamedan, Iran. METHODS The study utilizes recent data from the 2015 Hamedan Survey of Fertility, conducted in a representati...

Luo women are believed to acquire contagious cultural impurity after the death of their husbands that is perceived as dangerous to other people. To neutralise this impure state, a sexual cleansing rite is observed. In the indigenous setting, the ritual was observed by a brother-in-law or cousin of the deceased husband through a guardianship institution. However, with the emergence of HIV/AIDS, ...