The millennium development goals accorded highest priorities for achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. South Asian countries and India are societies with strong patriarchal norms, a high degree of son preference and pervasive gender discriminations. Using National family health survey (1998-99) data, this paper adopts a multiple indicator approach to study gender bias on the basis ...

Several studies have noted that, besides inadequate availability of health care services in many areas, especially the less developed countries, certain disease-specific and non-disease-specific cultural beliefs may influence people's health seeking behaviour. It has even been noted that health services may be underutilized and several health and child care instructions may be ineffective or ig...

Purpose: Osteoarthritis is a prevalent degenerative joint disease with huge public health burden and no curative therapy. There clear urgent need to translate insights from genomics into better understanding of mechanisms. A hallmark osteoarthritis cartilage degradation. Here, we aim characterize molecular events in at the whole transcriptome level.

BACKGROUND Where hard-to-access populations (such as those living in insecure areas) lack access to basic health services, relief agencies, donors, and ministries of health face a dilemma in selecting the most effective intervention strategy. This paper uses a decision mathematical model to estimate the relative effectiveness of two alternative strategies, mobile clinics and fixed community-bas...

background public district hospitals (pdhs) in tunisia are not operating at full plant capacity and underutilize their operating budget.   methods individual pdhs capacity utilization (cu) is measured for 2000 and 2010 using dual data envelopment analysis (dea) approach with shadow prices input and output restrictions. the cu is estimated for 101 of 105 pdh in 2000 and 94 of 105 pdh in 2010.   ...

BACKGROUND The shortage of health professionals in low income countries is recognized as a crisis. Community health workers are part of a "task-shift" strategy to address this crisis. Task shifting in this paper refers to the delegation of tasks from health professionals to lay, trained volunteers. In Kenya, there is a debate as to whether these volunteers should be compensated, and what motiva...

BACKGROUND Since the eighties, the North Kivu Province socio-economic environment has been deteriorating. This province also faced an influx of Rwandan refugees in July 1994. The objective of the paper is to show how a rural health district has been able to adjust and maintain its medical activities under unfavourable conditions. METHOD Performances of the local health system were assessed th...

OBJECTIVE To determine health care costs and economic burden of epidemiological changes in diseases related to tobacco consumption. METHODS A time-series analysis in Mexico (1994-2005) was carried out on seven health interventions: chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, lung cancer with and without surgical intervention, asthma in smokers and non-smokers, full treatment course with nicotine ...

Public Health nursing is complex because it incorporates an expectation of empowerment and advocacy on behalf of the public health nurse (PHN) in three functions: curative engagement, health promotion, and political advocacy (Cawley and Mannix McNamara 2011). Indeed, the mission of public health nursing calls for the health promotion approach (DOH 1997) and PHNs have a unique opportunity in the...