BACKGROUND Breastfeeding practices might be influenced by migration to another country. Although the "healthy migrant effect" is commonly reported in epidemiology, evidence for it in breastfeeding practices is weak. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to compare the initiation and duration of breastfeeding between Chinese Australian migrants and Chinese mothers in mainland China and test the healthy ...

BACKGROUND In recent years, the prevalence of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema symptoms in childhood has considerably increased in developing countries including Bolivia, possibly due to changes in lifestyle, environmental and domestic factors. This study aimed to assess the association between environmental factors and asthma, rhinoconjuctivitis and eczema symptoms in school-aged childre...

Molecular Science and Biomedicine Laboratory, State Key Laboratory for Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Biology, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Aptamer Engineering Center of Hunan Province, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410078, China 3 T.D. ...

In view of modern logistics industry in economic development playing an increasingly important role, in order to explore the relationship between logistics industry and economic development of Henan province, this paper selects its relevant data of 1990-2010, establishing econometric model, quantitatively studying the relationship between economic development and its logistics industry, in the ...

This paper makes a case study of Sichuan Province where a large number of aging population lives. By the social investigation method, 350 aged community people are interviewed to discuss the conflict between supply and demand in the current home-based care service market and the problems arising out of the market-oriented operation. In addition, this paper brings about specific countermeasures ...

The purpose of this study was to Survey and identify obstacles of Successful Implementation of Business Strategies in food industry Companies of Fars Province. This research is a mixed method research that combined both quantitative and qualitative research methods. In qualitative part, focus group and in quantitative part inferential and descriptive research was applied. In order to inferentia...

in order to study the effects of three operations of rangelands on the properties of vegetation in rangelands, this research was conducted in chaat gonbad, golestan province, iran in 2004. chaat area is located in 50 km of border road of dashlibroun to maravetappeh in north of attract river (border of iran and turkmenistan). the altitude is 70 m, annual rainfall is 170 mm and annual temperature...

Linking community knowledge with modern techniques to record and analyse risk related data is one way of engaging and mobilising community capacity. This paper discusses the use of the Geographic Information System (GIS) at the local level and the need for integrating modern technology and indigenous knowledge into disaster management. It suggests a way to mobilise available human and technical...

The effects of epilepsy may disturb the ability of the child and family to function and has detrimental effects on health-related quality of life (HRQOL). We determined HRQOL and related factors in children and adolescents with epilepsy in Iran. This cross-sectional study was performed in a private neurology pediatric clinic in Guilan Province (North of Iran). We evaluated 108 children and adol...

regarding the necessity of regional integrated development, analyzing the dependency of human habitats in region-level, is the main duty in every planning. therefore, deprivation and inequality reduction is an important matter, due to its economic and social consequences and needs proper attention. in fact, to achieve comprehensive development and progress in the future; requires the recognitio...