OBJECTIVE To describe characteristics and determinants of Thailand's declining birth rate using national representative survey data. MATERIAL AND METHOD The Fourth National Health Examination Survey was conducted between 2008 and 2009. Four stages of stratified probability samples, proportionate to size, were used to represent the whole Thai population. Information from women aged 35 to 59 ye...

INTRODUCTION Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection was the second most common cause of death, after injuries of external causes, among young adults from Bucaramanga in 2013. OBJETIVE To establish the extent of knowledge on HIV mechanisms of transmission prevention strategies among schoolchildren in the age range of 13 to 20 years old from poor districts of Bucaramanga. METHODOLOGY Cr...

The article deals with the concept of linguistic reflection in field foreign language education and its verbalization on metatextual level. ability for is an indicator a developed personality. purpose this research to study students higher school. Definitions key concepts work are given: personality reflection. Linguistic can be verbalized through inclusions: elements metatext. definitions thes...

in a case control study the effects of literacy, socio-economic status and the fertility behavior of mothers were fully investigated in two groups. out of 13123 babies born in 17 hospitals during almost 8 months in 1988-1989 in tehran 730 had a low birth weight (less than 2500 gr). as a control group, 1460 births were randomly selected from normal weight births. some basic findings are as follo...

This study was conducted in order to determine the impact of education on mortality due cardiovascular, infectious and renal disease, and cancer among Thai diabetics using data from the Thailand diabetes registry cohort prospected and conducted between April 2003 and February 2006. The study population consisted of 9,370 registered diabetic patients attending ten diabetes clinics at tertiary me...