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HEALTH is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in human health. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for physicians, health researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in health related problems. All manuscripts mu…
Rosiléia Marinho Quadros, Paulo Henrique Exterckotter Weiss, Geison Willian Ezequiel, Renato Batista Tamanho, Geanice Lepo, Marcio Rodrigues da Silva, Carlos Roberto João da Silva Junior, Flávio Antonio Pacheco de Araujo, Luiz Claudio Miletti
The knowledge of the epidemiology of parasitic infections in stray and domestic animals, especially of its incidence and prevalence, is fundamental to adopting effective prophylactic measures. Stray dogs play an important role in environmental contamination f…
Saradiya Mukherjee, Aditya Singh, Rakesh Chandra
Using data from 60 th round of the National Sample Survey, t his study attempts to measure the incidence and intensity of ‘catastrophic’ maternal health care expenditure and examines its socio-economic correlates in urban and rural areas sepa rately. Addition…
Indrani Gupta, William Joe, Shalini Rudra
Lack of integration and coordination between HIV prevention programmes and developmental programmes explain why many countries have not been able to halt the epidemic, and others still have unacceptably high prevalence. A frame work is presented here with sup…
Kaisa Turunen, Kristiina Helander, Kari J. Mattila, Markku Sumanen
Background: Pregnancy is an opportunity to adopt favorable health behaviors. We studied whether intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) promotes favorable health behavior in later life. Design: A prospective controlled cohort study. The method was a quest…
Kazuo Shigematsu, Hiromi Nakano, Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Tatsuyuki Sekimoto, Kouichiro Shimizu, Akihiko Nishizawa, Atsushi Okumura, Masahiro Makino, Touru Seki, Kazuhiko Bando, Yasushi Kitagawa
Background: Headache is a common symptom and sometimes makes patients worry about stroke. Some stroke patients actually have headache. However, the frequency of headache at the onset of stroke and the relationship between headache and outcomes are not fully c…
Nicola L. Coe
Focus groups can be used to explore sensitive topics and have been found to increase the likelihood and depth of disclosure of personal and sensitive information in comparison to individual interviews. This article focuses on how peo ple make self-disclosures…
Ibtissam Sabbah, Hala Sabbah, Sanaa Sabbah, Hussein Akoum, Nabil Droubi
Healthcare workers (HCWs) who are employed in traditional health care workplaces face a serious danger that may threaten their life; it is their exposure to blood and body fluids (BBF). In Lebanon, the introduction of a hospital accreditation system has put a…
Riad El Kebbaj, Soufiane El Kamouni, Hammam I. El Hajj, Pierre Andreoletti, Joseph Gresti, Norbert Latruffe, M’Hammed Saïd El Kebbaj, Joseph Vamecq, Gérard Lizard, Boubker Nasser, Mustapha Cherkaoui-Malki
Pseudo-neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy (P-NALD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by acyl-CoA oxidase 1 (ACOX1) deficiency with subsequent impairment of peroxisomal fatty acid β -oxidation, accumulation of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) and strong re…
Swadhin Mondal
T his paper analyzes equity in health care utilize tion and out-of-pocket expenditure on health care in India using two rounds (52th round 1995-1996 and 60th round 2004-2005) of National Sample Survey data and data from a household survey carried out in 2007.…
Atif Abbasi, Sheeba Arooj, Wafa Hussain, Asif Iqbal Mughal, Nazneen Habib, Wajid Aziz, Muhammad Rafique
Background: Epidemic of anemia is considered to be a significant threat to pregnant women or women in child bearing age. Anemia is one of the major nutritional health disorders affecting significant proportion of population not only in developing countries bu…
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HEALTH is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in human health. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for physicians, health researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in health related problems. All manuscripts mu… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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