This paper describes Rural Health Development Project (RHDP)'s experience with women's health and uterine prolapse (UP) in three districts in Nepal. Gynecological and UP surgical camps are discussed and data analyzed in light of increasing interest in UP from a social developmentperspective. The findings indicate that non-medical contexts and factors play a muchmore significant role in UP than ...

volume 120 | number 5 | May 2012 • Environmental Health Perspectives Stephen M. Levin died as a result of cancer on 7 February 2012. He was born to Sam and Sarah Levin of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 16 October 1941. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1963 and earned his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine in 1967. After completing a surgery internship and a psych...

introduction population growth and immigration are major causes of the most social changes in rural areas. accordingly, political change in a country is inevitable. so, this issue of iran’s rural settlements adopted and evolves. the rural habitations with population changes, the intensity of the positive effects of decentralization are receiving. your changes have been noted as being the basis ...