Indian society is distinguished by marked cultural pluralism and a relatively young population that in 1999 has grown to one billion. Its regional and economic diversity and complex social structure and extremes of poverty and wealth make planning a challenging task. Developing economic self-reliance, tackling poverty and building a strong welfare state were major commitments of the newly indep...

Landfill leachates are repeatedly found contaminated with organic pollutants, such as alkylphenols (APs), phthalates and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) at levels exceeding water quality standards. It has been shown that these pollutants may be present in the colloidal and truly dissolved phase in contaminated water, making particle separation an inefficient removal method. The aim of t...

BACKGROUND The Nigerian Midwives Service Scheme (MSS) is an ambitious human resources project created in 2009 to address supply side barriers to accessing care. Key features include the recruitment and deployment of newly qualified, unemployed and retired midwives to rural primary healthcare centres (PHCs) to ensure improved access to skilled care. This study aimed to understand, from multiple ...

Lymphatic filariasis (LF) has become a major public health and socioeconomic problem in different parts of the globe. About 63% of the world’s population with LF resides in Southeast Asia Region1 and approximately 1/3rd of the affected people live in India. It is estimated that 554.2 million people in India are at risk of LF infection in 243 districts across 20 states and union territories. Glo...

BACKGROUND Obesity contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality rates worldwide. We, therefore, aimed to provide epidemiological data on the prevalence of obesity in Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODOLOGY Data were collected during cross-sectional survey which included 5000 Saudi selected from 30 primary health care centers (PHCs) in Hail Region. RESULTS The overall preval...

Background. The quality of international normalised ratio (INR) control determines the effectiveness and safety warfarin therapy. Data on INR in non-metropolitan settings South Africa (SA) are sparse. Objectives. To examine time therapeutic range (TTR) its potential predictors a sample Garden Route District Municipality primary healthcare clinics (PHCs). Methods. records from eight PHCs were re...

Response issued draft vapor intrusion guidance (EPA, 2002), which specifically states that it is not recommended for Subtitle I underground storage tank (UST) sites. EPA's Office of Underground Storage Tanks (OUST) is thus currently developing guidance to address petroleum vapor intrusion (PVI) at UST sites. OUST has consulted on several occasions with experts in the field of vapor intrusion an...

This paper presents estimates of the parameters based on adaptive type-II progressive hybrid censoring scheme (AT-II PHCS) in the presence of the competing risks model. We consider the competing risks have generalized exponential distributions (GED). The maximum likelihood method is used to derive point and asymptotic confidence intervals for the unknown parameters. The relative risks due to ea...