Methods: Data from the 2013/14 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey for women, aged 15–49 years, who reported giving birth in the 2 years preceding the survey was used. The data comprised of sociodemographic and other obstetric data, which were cleaned, recoded, and analyzed using STATA version 13 (Stata Corporation, College Station, TX, USA). Multivariate logistic regression was used to examin...

Community case management (CCM) is a strategy for training and supporting workers at the community level to provide treatment for the three major childhood diseases--diarrhea, fever (indicative of malaria), and pneumonia--as a complement to facility-based care. Many low- and middle-income countries are now implementing CCM and need to evaluate whether adoption of the strategy is associated with...

Assessments of undernutrition are typically based on comparisons between anthropometric indicators of children and a reference standard from the US. Due to a number of problems associated with this reference standard, WHO is currently engaged in generating a new international reference standard for child growth based on well-to-do populations in a sample of poor and rich countries. The focus on...

Injectable contraceptives are fast becoming the method of choice among married women in sub-Saharan Africa. In several countries in the region, the proportion of women using injectable methods has surpassed the proportion of women using the pill. This is true even in some countries where the pill had been the most popular modern method in the 1980s and 1990s. This paper analyzes data from six s...

background: today, the quality of life (qol) studies have an important role in public health care, especially among the old adults suffering from chronic diseases such as diabetes. diabetes and its complications can widely affect various aspects of qol. therefore, the present study aimed to assess diabetic patients’ qol and identify the factors that affect it.   methods: a cross-sectional study...

An Examination of the Association between HIV Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors and HIV Infection Status in Five High HIV Prevalence States in India (Under the direction of Francis A. McCarty, Ph.D., FACULTY MEMBER) Although data shows that the incidence of HIV in India is falling, it is still a prevailing disease in India. The lack of knowledge about HIV and risky behaviors greatly i...