the infant feeding practices and the effects of factors such as mother’s educational level, primary health care, and family income on these practices in 531 households with 930 children 6-60 months of age were studied in rural areas of sirjan (kerman province), iran. the findings indicate that the majority of mothers (85%) breastfeed their infants and 86% of babies are fed the colostrums. the a...

We determined the knowledge of, attitude to and practice of contraception and the associated sociodemographic factors among a representative sample 1130 Qatari married women aged 18-49 years. Data were collected by questionnaire. The mean age of the women was 32.5 (SD 7.6) years. The vast majority (94.6%) knew about contraception but of these 1070, only 694 (64.9%) were in favour of contracepti...

This study aims to: 1) find out and analyze how the effect of number family members partially on people's income; 2) knowing analyzing influence education level income. The results this reveal that member variables have no income community around Kurma Jambi area; variable has a significant positive date palm area.

This paper proposes a decision support model to determine the contribution of urban region in the National Target Total Fertility Rate using analytical hierarchical Process (AHP). The proposed model supports in regional sustainability developing regarding family planning programs by determining and reducing the contribution of each governorate in Urban region of TFR and its fertility rate takin...

Equivalence scales are typically designed for adjusting households’ incomes for differences in size and composition. On the one hand, there is evidence that the way differences in needs across households are taken into account has a significant impact on the assessment of inequality in the society. On the other hand, equivalence scales with constant elasticity with respect to family size have b...

ABSTRAO'.-A case of attempted small mammal "domestication" is described based on ethnographic data from the Yemen Arab Republic (Fig. 1). Households of low economic status sought to supplement their cash incomes by taming a previously hunted species, the hyrax, Promvm CJlpensis jayakari. The experiments have largely ended in failure due to factors including the animal's biology and a poor manag...

BACKGROUND Sedentary behaviour (SB) has been implicated as a potential risk factor for chronic disease. Since children spend most of their awake time in schools, this study aimed to identify individual- and school-level correlates of sedentary time using a multilevel approach, and to determine if these correlates have a similar effect in normal weight (NW) and overweight/obese (O/O) children. ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study's purpose was to evaluate the relationship between medical student debt and primary care specialty choice, while examining the potentially confounding effects of family income and race/ethnicity. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was offered to all students at three medical schools between 2006 and 2008. The survey assessed students' anticipated educational...

the focus of this paper is to investigate economic analysis of the relationship between marriage benefits to age at marriage and its duration. economic theory helps to understand that family formation has some benefits that emerge in various aspects. one of the benefits of marriage –such that is observed in literature of family– can be the increase of the income of couples after family formatio...