a selection program is being implemented to improve meat production in makooei sheep. increasing litter size per ewe is the main objective, but possible repercussions on weight traits of lambs should be considered. the aim of this study was to estimate heritability along with genetic and phenotypic correlations between ewe's reproductive vs. weight traits in makooei ewes. data were comprised of...

IMPORTANCE Policy makers and practitioners need rigorous evaluations of state-based Medicaid enhanced prenatal care programs that provide home visiting to guide improvements and inform future investments. Effects on adverse birth outcomes are of particular interest. OBJECTIVE To test if participation in the Michigan statewide enhanced prenatal care program, the Maternal Infant Health Program ...

This paper presents an alternative view on propo-sitional disjunctive logic program: Disjunctive program = Control program + Horn program. For this we introduce a program transformation which transforms a disjunctive logic program into a Horn program and a so called control program. The control program consists of only disjunctions of new proposi-tional atoms and controls the \execution" of the...

Poor maternal nutritional status and substandard antenatal care, which result in increased women's risk, low birth weight and stillbirth, afflict many countries with weak or emerging economies even today. Studies that address the effect of extending nutrition awareness among pregnant women to the net outcome of pregnancy remain scarce. We aimed to compare and contrast the effect of a pragmatic ...

The objective of this study is to analyze adolescents' knowledge and perceptions of Chile's Family Planning Program. A cross-sectional study using both quantitative (semi-structured surveys) and qualitative (focus group technique and individual surveys) research methods was conducted with a sample of 277 adolescents aged 15-19 years who were users of the Hospital de El Carmen, in the year 2010....

Studies examining in utero health effect of maternal fasting during Ramadan assume that parents do not selectively time birth relative to Ramadan. In Matlab, a region in Bangladesh, family planning program started in 1977 where women in treatment areas received free contraceptives door to door but control areas were not part of the program. Both treatment and control areas were very similar in ...

BACKGROUND Low birth weight (LBW) is considered as an important outcome of birth and pregnancy, which is associated with long-term consequences and health-care problems. Maternal lifestyle and health care during pregnancy are powerful predictors of BW of infants. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of a self-care educational program based on the Health Belief Model (HBM) on reduc...

background: health is a national priority and it is always a duty of the government to establish a good and fair health system. the national heath care system reform program and evaluation of health system reform plan funding these programs were enforced by the honorable minister of health and medical education on may 5th, 2014. given the importance of this issue, the present study was conducte...