RESEARCH ARTICLE ON MATERNAL HEALTH & STATUS OF WOMEN IN RAJASTHAN ABSTRACT “Maternal deaths are both caused by poverty and are a cause for it. The cost of childbirth can quickly exhaust a family’s income‚ bringing more financial hardship.” -Tamar Manuelyan‚ Vice President for Human Development at the World Bank. Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy‚ childbirth and the postpartum period. Many developing nations lack apposite health care
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE How Should Malaysia Respond to its Ageing Society? D R Forsyth‚ FRCP*‚ Y C Chia‚ FRCP** *Box 135‚ Department of Medicine for the Elderly‚ Addenbrooke’s Hospital‚ Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust‚ Hills Road‚ Cambridge‚ CB2 2QQ‚ England‚ **Department of Primary Care Medicine‚ Faculty of Medicine‚ University of Malaya‚ Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia SUMMARY As Malaysia ages its health and social care systems will have to adapt to a changing pattern of disease and dependency
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Reproductive rights have always been a hot-button issue in the United States. The technologies in reproductive health‚ such as birth control methods‚ have developed significantly over the last hundred years. As these technologies have improved‚ laws have changed to suit the times. However‚ birth control and abortion have become so controversial that many of the laws and medical advances have gone backwards. The first condoms were developed in 1709. They were predominantly made of cloth‚ linen
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1. Introduction It is widely recognised that disease prevention and the associated mortality is vastly dependent on the behavioural and psychological factors (Berkman & Kawachi‚ 2000) Health promotion stems from these factors whereby focussing on the individual’s behaviour by influencing changes in variety of aspects such as families‚ communities work places and eventually encouraging individuals to adopt healthy practices (Green‚ 1984). The role of a nurse in health promotion and education is
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EMTALA: The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) was enacted in 1986 as a part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985. EMTALA was enacted to prevent hospitals with Emergency Departments from refusing to treat or transferring patients with emergency medical conditions (EMC) due to an inability to pay for their services. This act also applies to satellite locations whom advertise titles such as
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Kallmann ’s Syndrome ABSTRACT Kallmann’s syndrome is a rare disorder which affects predominantly man. Typical characteristics are a failure to go through puberty and an absent sense of smell. Although the disease is not life threatening‚ somebody with kallmann’s syndrome has an hormonal imbalance hypogonadotropic hypogonadism due to GnRH deficiency because a small area of his or her brain called the hypothalamus is unable to work properly. Specialised hormone replacement therapy is available
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Mental Needs for Nursing Mothers Suffering from Postpartum Depression Postpartum depression‚ also known as postnatal depression‚ is the name given to a disorder that nursing mothers may face when dealing with their newborn child. According to the Mayo Clinic‚ symptoms include‚ “loss of appetite‚ insomnia‚ intense irritability and anger‚ overwhelming fatigue‚ loss of interest in sex‚ lack of joy in life‚ feelings of shame‚ guilt or inadequacy‚ severe mood swings‚ difficulty bonding with your baby
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McIntosh‚ J 2003‚ ‘Children Living with Domestic Violence: Research Foundations for Early Robson‚ S‚ Cameron‚ CA & Roberts‚ CL 2006‚ ‘Birth outcomes for teenage women in New South Wales‚ 1998-2003’‚ The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and heterosexual experience’‚ The Lancet‚ vol. 358‚ pp. 1843-1850‚ viewed 10 April 2007‚ http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.utas.edu.au/science?_ob=ArticleListURL&_method=list&_
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Breast Cancer Screening Techniques in High Risk Women Teresa Roberts-Coiner Boise State University CHAPTER II Review of Literature Introduction The following is a summary of the published literature that examines the scope of screening for breast cancer in high risk women as well as genetic and enviornmental risk factors that contribute to breast cancer. Women‚ who carry a mutation of the breast cancer gene‚ known to healthcare providers as BRCA1 and BRCA2‚ have a 55-87% lifetime risk
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Child Development Chapter 1 1. | An example of a dependent variable in an experiment might be: | | | | eye color. | | | gender. | | | blood type. | | | level of depression. | | | | | Score: 1 of 1 | | 2. | Watching and recording others’ behaviors in a systematic and objective manner is referred to as: | | | | | scientific observation. | | | a laboratory experiment. | | | cross-sectional research. | | | a correlational design. | | |
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