In addition to being a major cause of mortality in South Asia, childhood diarrhea creates economic burden for affected households. We used survey data from sites in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan to estimate the costs borne by households due to childhood diarrhea, including direct medical costs, direct nonmedical costs, and productivity losses. Mean cost per episode was $1.82 in Bangladesh, $3...

BACKGROUND Diarrhoeal disease forms one of the two major killer diseases in children under five years of age in the developing world. Data on the prevalence and related factors of diarrhea in Kashmir valley is quite scanty. Thus this study was carried out to find the burden of diarrhoeal disease and the effect of a temperate climate (as compared to a tropical one in rest of India) on the patter...

BACKGROUND Parthenium dermatitis is the most common type of airborne contact dermatitis in India. It is a chronic disease of a remitting and relapsing course with significant morbidity and distress, but there is no scoring system to assess its severity. AIM To design a scoring system for the assessment of clinical severity of disease in Parthenium dermatitis and to use this scoring system in ...

Nowadays, it is apparent that personality disorder is a common condition. Some of the concepts of personality disorder that are currently in use are flawed and need to be revised. The aim of this article is to discuss the controversy created by the uncertainties in the current classification system and to suggest ways forward. In particular, the clinician needs to be aware of the importance of ...

PURPOSE English and Mandarin are the 2 most spoken languages in the world, yet it is not known how stuttering manifests in English-Mandarin bilinguals. In this research, the authors investigated whether the severity and type of stuttering is different in English and Mandarin in English-Mandarin bilinguals, and whether this difference was influenced by language dominance. METHOD Thirty English...

105 inTroducTion Civilian Tactical Emergency Medical Support (TEMS) has a long history in the United States. Enormous progress has been made during the past ten years in developing professional and operational standards within the field. However, to date, there still exists no standard of care within TEMS specifically, and more broadly for high threat pre-hospital trauma care. Current civilian ...

Eiman Zargaran, MD, MHSc, Lauren Adolph, Nadine Schuurman, PhD, Larissa Roux, MD, PhD, Damon Ramsey, MD, Richard Simons, MB, BChir, Richard Spence, MD, Andrew J. Nicol, MD, PhD, Pradeep Navsaria, MD, Juan Carlos Puyana, MD, Neil Parry, MD, Lynne Moore, PhD, Michel Aboutanos, MD, MPH, Natalie Yanchar, MD, Tarek Razek, MD, Chad G. Ball, MD, MSc, and S. Morad Hameed, MD, MPH, for the Trauma Associ...

Assessment of risk factors Weight loss intention and weight change during the previous year were assessed by self report in a supplemental survey to the 1989 National Health Interview Survey. The same survey was used to determine age, ethnicity, sex, smoking status, self rated health, hospital admissions, physician visits, chronic and acute conditions, limitations in activities or work, and hei...

OBJECTIVE Effective interventions to prevent, delay, or remit diabetes are currently available. However, their impact on the prevalence of diabetes at the population level is unknown. This study aimed to estimate the impact of a range of diabetes interventions on the population prevalence of diabetes for Australian adults between 2010 and 2025. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We used the Australi...

Children who are exposed to interparental violence are at risk for a host of adjustment problems, but little is known about the processes that explain why children from violent families develop different patterns of adjustment. In this paper, we examine the role that children’s perceptions and interpretations of aggression may play in shaping the impact of interparental violence on their shorta...