BACKGROUND Vitamin A plays an important role in the periods of rapid cellular growth and differentiation, especially during pregnancy, which is supplied by the mother to the fetus. The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence and potential influence factors of prenatal VAD of Chinese pregnant women. METHODS China National Nutrition and Health Survey 2010-2013(CHNNS2010-2013) is a nationa...

In developing countries, small scale integrated agriculture acts as a tool for supplying the fast-growing human population with high-quality protein, additional income to poor and food security to household, especially women. This study was conducted in different SLOPBBangladesh project areas of Patuakhali, a coastal district of Bangladesh to observe the effect of small scale integrated agricul...

OBJECTIVES To assess the level and accuracy of public understanding of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the United Kingdom. METHODS Women attending a well woman clinic were asked to complete a questionnaire assessing HPV awareness and specific knowledge about the virus. RESULTS Questionnaires were completed by 1032 women, of whom 30% had heard of HPV. Older women, non-smokers, and those with a...

suffer from low vision or blindness from avoidable causes.1–3 This is, in large part, because women are not using eye care services as frequently as men, especially in rural areas.4–5 A 2002 community-based survey of 4,500 people in Al Minya Governorate, Upper Egypt showed that the prevalence of cataract in women was double that in men and that trachomatous trichiasis was four times as prevalen...

The weathering hypothesis suggests that early childbearing is an adaptive mechanism for disadvantaged young women, especially African Americans, who believe that their health status may decline as they move through adulthood. Implicitly, weathering assumes that these young women use contextual clues to formulate the likelihood of their own future adult health. We propose a simple yet, to date, ...

introduction: recently, it has been recognized that oral infections, especially periodontitis might have effect on several systemic conditions. a possible role of oral diseases in sub-fertility and infertility was also has been suggested. the aim of this review was to evaluate the association between poor oral health and fertility problems. methods: in this narrative review, authors used pubmed...

• Foundation News 8 • Reviews and Comments: Tamil Nadu's Initiative and Universal immunisation Programme Some Lessons: C. Gopalan 7 3. Women at risk: It can be computed, on the basis of available growth data, that today nearly 24 percent of adult women in the reproductive period have body weights less than 38 kg and 16 percent have heights less than 145 cm4 These women, according to generally a...

BACKGROUND Intersectionality theory, a way of understanding social inequalities by race, gender, class, and sexuality that emphasizes their mutually constitutive natures, possesses potential to uncover and explicate previously unknown health inequalities. In this paper, the intersectionality principles of "directionality," "simultaneity," "multiplicativity," and "multiple jeopardy" are applied ...

Women develop important changes in their cardiovascular and respiratory systems during pregnancy. They also have immune system which are necessary to tolerate foreign fetal tissue. These expected alterations can increase the likelihood of poor outcomes with certain infections, especially viral infection. There is extensive literature describing COVID-19 pregnant women, there evidence that this ...