A key task for the field education supervisor is to facilitate reflection in beginning practice, and to promote in the student a sense of ownership, mastery and understanding of his or her clinical process. At the same time the supervisor is charged to instruct and guide the student. A major challenge for the supervisor is to balance these two dimensions of supervision and maintain a focus on t...

BACKGROUND In developed countries, there is a negative association between socioeconomic status (SES) and a variety of health outcomes, known as the social gradient in health. This is contrasted by a weak, absent or even positive gradient for overweight. The objective of this study was to investigate why overweight does not follow the social gradient. DATA AND METHODS Data from adult responde...

Human capital investment in developing countries is thought to be significantly constrained by household resources. In this paper, we study the relationship between household resources and the demand for education using recently collected household survey data from Vietnam. Our data cover a period, 1993-98, of exceptional income growth in Vietnam, during which secondary school enrollment rose s...

We study household and context determinants of school dropout using data for 130,000 children in 363 regions of 30 developing countries using multi-level discrete-time event-history analysis. Most (72%) of the variation in school dropout is due to household-level factors, with socioeconomic resources (parental education, father’s occupation, and wealth) being most important. Household structure...

Obesity prevalence is rapidly increasing in developing countries. Existing research investigating social patterning of obesity and its risk factors in Latin American urban contexts has inconsistent findings. This study analyzed a multistage household survey in adults in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Marginal models were used to examine the association of education and household an...

OBJECTIVES To quantify the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and type 2 diabetes in India. DESIGN Nationally representative cross-sectional household survey. SETTING Urban and rural areas across 29 states in India. PARTICIPANTS 168 135 survey respondents aged 18-49 years (women) and 18-54 years (men). PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURE Self-reported diabetes status. RESULTS Markers ...

Despite various efforts for enhancing women's autonomy in developing countries, many women are deprived of their capacity in decision-making on their household affairs as well as social issues. This paper aimed to examine women's autonomy and its associated factors in the Kapilvastu district of Nepal. We measured women's autonomy using a recently developed women's autonomy measurement scale fro...