women s status and child nutrition

... usability testing is to understand whether users can use the system well,to assess users’ acceptance of the system, to assess the effectiveness of the system, to assess user satisfaction and to improve ... helps to understand the system was done using: Use case diagram: it is the simplest illustration of interactions of actors of the system showing relationships of actors with uses cases of the system ... guide has several sections to collect different kinds of data required for this study The first section assesses demographic information, the second section assesses information access and the

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2017, 16:46

... group classes, the rap sessions, the ing, the team demonstrations, and now the sisters in shape gym— distinguishes sisters in shape from other group weight-loss programs such as Jenny Craig and Weight ... group offers a sliding scale for fees and services including membership dues and personal training sessions nonethe-less, sisters in shape still seems to attract mainly middle-class and upper-middle-class ... The sisters in shape newsletter features a column by melanie, details sisters in shape members’ stories, offers recipes and health and exercise tips, introduces new classes, and pro-vides information

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2020, 09:34

... problems Skin cuts/ Fungal infection Trang 7Heat exhaustion/ Heat strokes Breathing problems/ Bronchitis/ Asthma Numbness in feets/hands Pain in Knees, shoulders and other joints Any ... scratches on body during agricultural works Most of the respondents suffered from heat exhaustion and heat strokes, numbness in hand/feet, backache, headache, pain in knees, shoulders, joints ... earned Rs 2000-4000/month Possession of farm tools, implements and livestock It is evident from the Table 4 that traditional and very basic tools viz sickle, khurpi, hand hoe, hand plough and

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2020, 11:26

... variables Student’s t-test was used when comparing quantitative variables Chi-squared test or Fisher’s exact tests was used when comparing qualitative variables SAS statistical software version ... willingness or unwilling-ness to vaccinate their daughters (Table 4) Effect of education on women’s awareness and attitudes Table 5 presents the responses to questions related to HPV and its vaccines ... their daughters, the proportion of women with positive responses increased substantially Discussion This study investigated rural Chinese women’s baseline HPV knowledge and their attitudes toward

Ngày tải lên: 22/09/2020, 23:38

... disorders [9] A systematic review of seventeen community-based studies on treatment for RTIs and STIs in India, across rural and urban populations in most states except Kerala and the North East, estimated ... in the past thirty years [21–23] Our analysis of women’s utilisation of services, across states and over time, suggests that utilisation of services for gynaecological morbidity remains a challenge ... of association (p < 0.05) in the crude analyses Analyses were conducted in Stata 13 using the svy command to adjust for survey design and sampling weights Results Background characteristics

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2020, 11:06

... of child nutrition Section 3 describes the survey and presents descriptive statistics Section 4 discusses the empirical specification, while Section 5 presents the results on the determinants ... FFW and FD receipts Food aid is targeted using three methods: administrative targeting, using such indicators as asset or livestock ownership, age and gender, nutritional status, access to resources ... that depends on inputs in past periods and possibly on past nutritional status as well (Strauss and Thomas, 1995) A general child health and nutrition production function can be written as Ht= f(Ht-1,

Ngày tải lên: 12/07/2021, 11:41

... groups’ discussions and report backs: • Women’s access to land is impacted by discriminatory inheritance, family and marital law as well as private investments and policies, which promote large scale ... needs to be sustained feminist engagement on all issues, and at all levels, to ensure that the outcome of the post 2015 process is poised to facilitate the realization of women’s rights and gender ... land acquisitions or land grabbing by transnational corporations A lack of property rights for women not only impacts access to land, but also critical resources such as water and food for women

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2022, 18:37

... qualitative papers were assessed in terms of validity, methods used and analysis of the results, using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) appraisal tool for qualitative research [23] (Table ... recognised robust methods to investigate or describe women's experiences and/or expectations about pain relief and the decision-making process Studies were excluded if the focus was on a specific type ... Abstracts and PsychINFO Studies that examined experience and expectations of pain, and its relief in labour, were appraised and the findings were integrated into a systematic review Results: Appraisal

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2022, 14:31

... will address these issues using data from the ChecKid study, investigating parent reports and child reports in children of 9-12 years of age Methods Study design The present study used data obtained ... the same sub-jects but also included socio-demographic variables such as the child’s age, gender, postal code, ethnicity (assessed by country of birth of both parents) and socio-economic status ... analyses Statistical analyses were conducted using the PASW 20.0 and Stata 11 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas) software packages Descriptive statistics were used (mean, stand-ard deviations and percentages)

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 14:50

... across the two time points Both surveys were nationally representative cross-sectional surveys based on a two-stage stratified sample of house-holds The details of the survey design are described ... intervention study The main strength of this study is that it used compre-hensive population-based measures of women’s empower-ment in a South Asian population We also considered household wealth status ... 10% women in our study were adolescent and WHO recom-mended to use z-score as a measure of nutritional status As we used BMI as the measure of maternal nutritional status, the malnutrition prevalence

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2020, 01:18

... Trang 4stress-response theory of abuse Women in abusive relationships suffer from fear and stress which may result in long-term health problems and may reduce women’s immunity to illness overall ... relationships Chronic stress-related problems include functional gastrointestinal disorders, appetite loss and viral infections such as colds and flu (Campbell et al 2002) Central nervous system ... experienced domestic violence also present to Emergency Departments with somatic complaints (e.g headaches), obstetric complications and mental health issues such as depression and substance abuse (Guth

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... hormone disruptors and women’s health, but these chemicals also pose risks to males, especially from exposures in the womb. Some of these risks include hypospadias (a birth defect of the penis), ... bodies. Hormone disruptors* can interfere with these functions. * Hormone disruptors are also referred to as endocrine disruptors. Hormones Clear Messages Hormone Disruptors Mixed Messages WHAT ... help maintain and control body energy levels, reproduction, growth and development, internal balance of body systems (called homeostasis) and responses to surroundings, stress and injury (1). Hormone

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... These known associations are: • High blood pressure is positively associated with heart disease (including coronary heart disease)3 and stroke.4 • Obesity is positively associated with hypertension, ... hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.5, • Leisure time physical activity is inversely associated with heart disease,7 stroke,7 diabetes,8 and obesity.9 • Smoking is positively associated with ... organizations, and private companies across the United States Department of Health and Human Services Tommy G Thompson Secretary DHHS Office on Women s Health Wanda K Jones, Dr P.H Deputy Assistant Secretary...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20

... conclusions is that women s poverty is almost invisible to policy makers and program designers She states:” Poverty has not been seen as a women s issue – not by government and sometimes, not by women s ... reports of long standing housing struggles and multiple displacements, with deleterious psychological effects Living in sub-standard and unsafe housing was described as very stressful Conditions ... multiples de survivantes, mères et aidants naturels Les stratégies de promotion de la santé sont inefficaces si elles sont basées sur la prémisse selon laquelle “toutes les femmes s engagent par...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 00:20

... to so successfully When the average American woman is interested in childbearing, she has specific health care needs and faces pregnancyassociated risks While steps to improve maternal and infant ... benign breast disease, can be useful in the treatment of endometriosis and may help decrease bone loss in older women Barrier methods, such as condoms and diaphragms help to protect against sexually ... century.29 Smaller families and longer intervals between births have significantly contributed to improvements in the health of infants and women, as well as to improvements in women s socioeconomic status. 30...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 07:20

... findings, conclusions, and areas for further research Prevalence and patterns of violence Association of violence with specific health outcomes Women s responses and use of services Strengths and ... positive note, identifying the respondent s strengths and abilities All tapes were erased once transcripts had been made Focus group discussions Focus group discussions were held with women and ... The research specialists and the representatives of women s organizations who carried out the interviews and dealt so sensitively with the respondents deserve our warmest thanks and punish violence...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... things equal Less research has addressed the impacts of women s work on investments in children s schooling Evidence that women are more inclined than their spouses to spend in ways that benefit children ... intrahousehold bargaining and differential preferences of wives and husbands See Glick and Sahn (2000) for discussion 16 siblings or more adolescent and adult males in the household spend more ... mother s work status, sometimes without indicating if the correlation is statistically significant In some cases these analyses are refined by stratifying the sample on factors such as child age...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... variations in the percentages of men and wome n re porting RTI/STI symptoms and awareness of AIDS across the districts of a state and across the states as well This has implications for designing ... experiences Traditional bases of social stratification such as caste and class reproduce themselves in women s lived experiences as also rural-urban and regional disparities New needs emerge as women ... programmes for communication strategies to increase awareness of the diseases and service delivery for the diseases Table gives state-wise estimates with regards to symptoms reported for RTI/STI according...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... insured non-residents S. B 896 effectively applies to insurance regulated by (issued in) Massachusetts, and Massachusetts residents who commute to other states and are insured in those states ... opinions from other consultations and visits At best, we can assume it is safe to eliminate procedure codes for consultations for “established” patients and in settings, such as emergency rooms, ... Breast Cancer Treatments DHCFP s consultants prepared a survey sent to seven fully-insured plans in Massachusetts All seven plans responded to this survey, including Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... rendering supervisory visits from health center staff less necessary The basic measures of access to public and to private services—distances to the closest public and private facilities as reported ... also influence health status, as seems likely, cross-sectional estimates of the relationship between presence of a village midwife and health status will be biased unless the specifications include ... care, and stitch wounds About one-third say they can incise and drain abscesses Almost all village midwives dispense medications such as antibiotics, cough medicine, vitamins, and supplements of micronutrients...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 12:20