BACKGROUND The study examines trends in the consumption of reproductive health services (use of modern contraceptives, health facility deliveries, assisted deliveries, first trimester antenatal visit and 4+ antenatal visits) and their determinants using four rounds of Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys (1993, 1998, 2003 and 2008) data. METHODS The study uses cross-sectional and pooled probi...

OBJECTIVE Safety net health care centers in the US serve vulnerable and underinsured females. The primary aim of this work was to determine if HPV4 dosing compliance differs between females who receive doses at rural vs. urban core safety net health care locations. METHODS Females exclusively receiving health care in the Truman Medical Center (TMC) safety net system at the urban core and rura...

introduction: family physician plan in iran was conducted to establish service referral system. its urban step began in 2012 and it was supposed that the effectiveness is enhanced and the costs are reduced. the implementation of this program has faced some challenges, especially in human resources management. the aim of this study was to optimally allocate human resources for urban family physi...

BACKGROUND LGBT community organizations in the United States have been providing health services since at least the 1970s. However, available explanations for the origins of LGBT health services do not sufficiently explain why health in particular has been so closely and consistently linked to LGBT activism. Little is also known regarding how LGBT health services may have evolved over time with...

OBJECTIVE To study whether traditionally vulnerable populations have worse geographic access to trauma centers. DESIGN A cross-sectional analysis using data from the American Hospital Association Annual Survey from 2005 linked with zip code-level data from the US Census. We used a multinomial logit model to examine the odds of having difficult as opposed to easy access to trauma centers for a...

the issue of urban decline in city centers and horizontal expansion of the city and its consequences is a challenge in sustainable development of the cities. in this regard, new approaches were shaped to define career planning, urban design and urban environmental quality concerns in new-urbanism pattern. the critical approach to modern urban pattern was formed based on scattered, non-human and...

background : about 5% of the world population are carriers of the hepatitis b virus which is not the same in different areas of the world. iran, with a rate of 2-3%, is among the countries with average prevalence. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of hbsag and its associated factors in pregnant women who referred to urban health centers in isfahan province. methods : this wa...