The increasing trend of international marriage is an important phenomenon of this era of globalization and open economies. The proportion of international marriages in SouthKorea has increased significantly, from3.5% in 2000 to 7.0% in 2016[1]. The largest proportion of marriage immigrant women (MIW) in South Korea is from Vietnam [1]; the percentage of these immigrants increased from 25.1% in ...

OBJECTIVE Healthy People 2010 calls for reductions in rapid repeat births (RRBs), defined as births occurring within 24 months after a previous birth for women of all ages, and prevention of repeat births during adolescence, regardless of the birth interval. Home visiting has been promoted as a mechanism to prevent child abuse and neglect and to improve pregnancy outcomes. This study aims to as...

INTRODUCTION Implementation of rural family physician program in Iran in 2005 has been evaluated and shown that this program has been led to some improvements in health indicators. In this study, some reproductive health (RH) indicators were compared before and after implementation of this program in rural areas of East Azerbaijan, Iran. METHODS In this ecologic- time trend study, the data of...

The standard Erdős-Renyi model of random graphs begins with n isolated vertices, and at each round a random edge is added. Parametrizing n2 rounds as one time unit, a phase transition occurs at t = 1 when a giant component (one of size constant time n) first appears. Under the influence of statistical mechanics, the investigation of related phase transitions has become an important topic in ran...