this commentary on potts et al provides a critical view on their thesis that increasing the level of education among women is likely to reduce terrorism. presence of a strong family planning program enables women to control family size resulting in women’s public participation more likely and facilitating the emergence of small birth cohorts who are less likely to become unemployed. in spite of...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although nurse home visiting has proven efficacious with small samples, scaling up to community populations with diverse families has not yet proven effective. The Durham Connects program was developed in collaboration with community leaders as a brief, universal, postnatal nurse home visiting intervention designed to screen for risk, provide brief intervention, and co...

RUSSELL KIRBY, JOANN PETRINI, CAROLINE ALTER, and THE HISPANIC ETHNICITY BIRTH DEFECTS WORKGROUP Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Milwaukee Clinical Campus, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Milwaukee Wisconsin 53201-0342. Perinatal Data Center, Office of the Medical Director, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, White Plains, New York 10605. Members of the Hispanic Ethnicity ...

background: the new maternal health care program has been designed in order to improve the quality of the current national program. standard protocol along with the methods of physicians' and midwives' intervention clearly defined in this program. this study was carried out to examine the effectiveness of this program in terms of improving child birth, pregnancy indicators and solving related p...