objective: to investigate maternal beliefs, practices about causes and determinant factors on drowning and maternal socioeconomic correlated factors on child mortality from drowning. m e t h od s : from march 2005 to march 2009, in a register-based cohort study and household survey, individual records utilizing drowning registry data of northern iran were enrolled.   mothers (n=276) who respond...

background to develop the culture of breastfeeding, it is needed to know the level of maternal knowledge. hence, the aim of this study was to evaluate maternal knowledge and attitude toward exclusive breastfeeding in six months after birth in shiraz, iran. materials and methods this was a cross-sectional study carried out on mothers who referred to health centers. four health centers were selec...

BACKGROUND The target for Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG-5) is to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters between 1990 and 2015. The United Nations 2014 report on MDG-5 concluded that little progress had been made in the South Asian countries, including India, which accounts for 17% of all maternal deaths globally. In resource-poor economies with widespread disparities even wi...

In 2010, two reports have provided estimates of maternal mortality ratios (MMR) for different countries (1, 2). Hogan et al. have reported a decreasing trend for MMR in Iran from 101 (per 100000 live births) in 1980, 64 in 1995, and 36 in 2000 to 28 in 2008 (1). In the World Health Statistics 2010, two different estimates have been provided for most of the countries; one countryreported and one...

the present study was aimed at examining concerns about the social effects of efl learning, a challenging area of research which has not been discussed sufficiently. it tried to investigate the relationship between efl learning and national identity. in addition, attempt was made to find a relationship between language motivation types and national identity. furthermore, the role of two demogra...

Maternal mortality statistics are the most important indicators of reproductive women’s health care. Ireland has experienced a gratifying progressive decline in maternal deaths for over 60 years; rates cited by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), and taken up by the news media, suggest that this is one of the safest countries in the world in which to deliver a baby. Nevertheless, closer insp...

BACKGROUND While community capabilities are recognized as important factors in developing resilient health systems and communities, appropriate metrics for these have not yet been developed. Furthermore, the role of community capabilities on access to maternal health services has been underexplored. In this paper, we summarize the development of a community capability score based on the Future ...

In Malawi the maternal mortality ratio is extremely high. Since almost all maternal deaths are avoidable, maternal mortality is also an issue of human rights. This paper examines the root causes of high maternal mortality in Malawi and applies a human rights-based approach to the reduction of maternal mortality. It recommends roles for the various duty-bearers. It describes indicators to monito...

This paper examines French philosopher Sarah Kofman’s fractured relationships to her identities as Jew and woman. Active participant in postwar debates surrounding deconstruction psychoanalysis, acclaimed reader of Freud Nietzsche, interlocutor Derrida, Kofman is today most widely remembered for autobiographical writings about childhood a young Orthodox Jewish girl during the Nazi occupation Pa...