To what extent are women free to choose where to give birth? How discourses of risk, blame and responsibility influence birth place decisions Kirstie Coxon, Jane Sandall & Naomi J. Fulop a Division of Women’s Health, Women’s Health Academic Centre (King’s Health Partners), King’s College London, London, UK b Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, London, UK Published ...

Background: Health and intelligence are the main foundation for creating quality Human Resources (HR). Exclusive breastfeeding is one of best steps to improve human resources from an early age, in first six months a baby's life. The success exclusive due several factors including relatively low level education, lack utilization health facility services, increased marketing formula milk urban ar...

BACKGROUND The proportion of births taking place in the home of the mother has declined to less than 1% of the total, in spite of the lack of evidence of the benefits of hospitalization. Home confinement remains rare when supported by general practitioners; little is known of the preferences of women of childbearing age. AIMS To examine the beliefs of women of childbearing age concerning the ...

BACKGROUND To assess quarterly fluctuations in schizophrenia births in a southern hemisphere data set, and to compare the quarterly birth distributions of patients born in the northern and southern hemisphere. METHOD The month and place of birth of patients with schizophrenia (n = 9348) were extracted from a mental health register. RESULTS The quarterly birth distribution of patients with s...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a raised incidence of leukaemia in the Dounreay area occurred in children born to local mothers (birth cohort) or in those who moved to the area after birth (schools cohort) and also whether any cases of cancer have occurred in children born near Dounreay who may have moved elsewhere. DESIGN Follow up study. SETTING Dounreay area of Caithness, Scotland. SUBJ...