OBJECTIVES: The iobjective iof ithe istudy iwas ito iestimate iprevalence postpartum idepression iand iits iassociated irisk ifactors iamong imothers.
 METHODOLOGY: This icross-sectional icarried iout iin iDepartment of iObstetrics i& iGynecology,iand iPsychiatry, iKhyber Teaching Hospital iPeshawar 1st April 2018 till 31st March 2019. iA itotal i750 ipost-natal imothers iwere i...

In recent years, interest in improving health care to diverse patient populations has stimulated the development of academic and clinical resources to improve physicians' cultural competence. These efforts have focused on increasing physicians' sensitivity to the roles patients' ethnicity and culture play in health care. However, the influence of physicians' own demographic characteristics on t...

Ð We use Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to compare ``poverty'' at two or more points in time within and between African countries. Our welfare measure is an index resulting from a factor analysis of various household characteristics, durables, and household headsÕ education. An advantage of this measure is that for intertemporal and intraregional comparisons, we need not rely on suspect p...

background: deep vein thrombosis (dvt) can be an ethnicity related disease and an important health issue for health-care systems. thus, domestic recognition of risk factors and disease characteristics seem to be inevitable. this study was designed to evaluate the epidemiology, basic characteristics, and risk factors in patients with dvt. materials and methods: in this descriptive cross-sectiona...

The Census Bureau used three methods to determine the nation’s population in 2000: the traditional headcount, the post-enumeration survey (Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation or A.C.E.), and Demographic Analysis (DA). The three estimates produced significantly different and confounding results. The divergence among the three — especially, the discrepancy between DA and the A.C.E. — is considered t...