BACKGROUND Studies aimed at understanding the association between induced abortion and HIV are scarce and differ on the direction of the association. This paper aims to show the prevalence of induced abortion in a sample of pregnancies of women living and not living with HIV/Aids, determining variables associated with pregnancy termination and linked to the life course of women and to the speci...

OBJECTIVE To study the health related quality of life (HRQOL) among Thai unilateral lower limb amputees and determine the factors associated with a good HRQOL. MATERIAL AND METHOD A postal survey with the WHOQOL-BREF-Thai questionnaire (26 items) to 1300 people with LLA who received a lower limb prostheses from Siriraj Hospital, Prapokklao Hospital, and Ratchaburi Hospital between 2001 and 20...

OBJECTIVE The extreme heatwave of 2009 in South Australia dramatically increased morbidity, with a 14-fold increase in direct heat-related hospitalisation in metropolitan Adelaide. Our study aimed to identify risk factors for the excess morbidity. DESIGN A matched case-control study of risk factors was conducted. SETTING Patients and matched community controls were interviewed to gather dat...

food insecurity, as a multi-faceted problem with far-reaching health and societal consequences, is prevalent among disadvantaged households. household food insecurity has made the notion operationally useful in the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs and policies. this study was to investigate the socio-demographic associates contributing to severity of food insecurity among vuln...

OBJECTIVES It has been estimated that over 50% of the premature deaths occurring in Western countries can be attributed to causes rooted in lifestyle. In turn, leading a healthy lifestyle has also been associated with a wide range of psychosocial factors. Today, it is known that these differ among men and women. The present article aimed to identify, from a gender-based perspective, the psychos...

BACKGROUND Measurement of socioeconomic position (SEP) over the life course in population health surveillance systems is important for examining differences in health and illness between different population groups and for monitoring the impact of policies and interventions aimed at reducing health inequities and intergenerational disadvantage over time. While face-to-face surveys are considere...

In higher education, students are often asked to demonstrate critical thinking, academic literacy (Geisler, 1994), expert-like use of knowledge, and creation of knowledge artifacts without ever having been guided or scaffolded in learning the relevant skills. Too frequently, universities teach the content, and it is assumed that the metaskills of taking part in expert-like activities are someho...

different developments in recent years have provided protection for participative and interdisciplinary research from research and educational institutes and other organizations which invest in research. because of the need for having a comprehensive look in solving problems and understanding complexities and also multidimensionality of problems which societies encounter some special ideas have...

introduction: netiquette is network etiquette or the etiquette of cyberspace. recognizing organizational culture and its relationship with the netiquette offers strategies applied in order to communication development and creating learning organizations through the internet for senior management. the purpose of this study has been relationship between organizational culture and netiquette among...