there is a relationship between infant feeding method and maternal postpartum depression (ppd). this study was carried out in an iranian population to compare the prevalence of ppd symptoms between breast feeding and non-breast feeding mothers for first time.four health centers in ahvas were selected by random sampling in 2009. at first 78 non-breast feeding mothers at two months postpartum wer...

BACKGROUND Antenatal depression (AD) is a major public health issue but evidence regarding its prevalence and associated factors in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) is limited. The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence and identify risk factors for AD among Brazilian pregnant women. METHODS All women living in the urban area of the city of Pelotas, Southern Brazil, with confi...

One part of the solution to the problem of climate change is the use of wind energy for electricity generation. Onshore wind farms usually consist of a number of horizontal axis wind turbines closely spaced in clusters and they are often sited on complex terrain. Various models have been developed in the past to estimate the wake effects and optimize the siting of a wind farm, but they were mai...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence of postnatal depression in Nuuk, Greenland. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. METHODS The primary health care system in Nuuk initiated a project aiming to screen new mothers for depression using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). EPDS has a range on a scale from 0 to 30. All mothers residing in Nuuk who had given ...

The use of IT has considerable potential to impact the healthcare industry. Recent applications such as electronic medication administration systems (EMAS) are expected to improve medication safety and delivery. However, the impact of such systems on users’ job performance is unclear and under-researched. This study develops a model to understand the individual impact of healthcare IS such as E...

In Part I of this paper (Provis and Ellis, 1955), a description was given of the measurements of more than 1,700 Edinburgh schoolchildren in 1952-53, these children being a stratified sample of the whole school population. Tables 1 and 2 in that paper summarized the various measurements and indices according to age group and sex, and Figs. 1 to 4 illustrated the age-group means for three linear...

missed to discuss the relation between the older materia medica and the modem experimental science of pharmacology. The book is marred by some omissions and a number of spelling errors. On p. 190 we are told that the private schools of pharmacy will be mentioned in the next chapter but no further reference to them occurs. On p. 186 the description of the Arms of the Pharmaceutical Society stops...