the socio-economic factors affecting land use changes in the maraveh tappeh region was determined from the viewpoint of beneficiaries and experts. the items of questionnaires designed as rating scale based on the five options likert. reliability of questionnaires was determined by cronbach's alpha. two sets of questionnaires were designed for beneficiaries and experts. reliability of benef...

BACKGROUND In Kenya, >1,200 laboratory-confirmed 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) (pH1N1) cases occurred since June 2009. We used population-based infectious disease surveillance (PBIDS) data to assess household transmission of pH1N1 in urban Nairobi (Kibera) and rural Lwak. METHODS We defined a pH1N1 patient as laboratory-confirmed pH1N1 infection among PBIDS participants during August 1, 20...

Few studies have examined the effects of household change on adolescent development. We study household composition change and its effect on development, as measured by both internalizing symptoms and externalizing behaviors, in a sample of urban African American adolescents. Household change was defined based on the movement in or out of the household of one of the two most important adults ad...

Market-based development efforts frequently create opportunities to generate income from goods previously produced and consumed within the household. Production within the household is often characterized by a gender and age division of labor. Market development efforts to improve well being may lead to unanticipated outcomes if household production decisions are non-cooperative. We develop and...

Corporate household not only refers to the strict hierarchical structure within the corporation, but also the variety of inter-organizational relationships. We propose a conceptual definition for corporate household, corporate household knowledge, and corporate household knowledge processor. After describing research challenges and conceptual definitions, we summarize potential solution approac...

By comparing data from national telephone polls to Census gures on household size (number of adults in household), we nd large diierences between population and sample, even after weighting respondents proportional to household size. This presumably occurs because larger households are easier to reach and more likely to respond to the survey. If a user wishes to weight on household size, we rec...

Often the household environmental factors are combined with the household assets in explaining the economic differentials in population and health parameters of developing countries. Though the utility of wealth index (that combines household environment with assets) in explaining health and health care utilization is established, its utility as a proxy of economic measures is contested. In thi...

BACKGROUND Community-associated Staphylococcus aureus infections often affect multiple members of a household. We compared 2 approaches to S. aureus eradication: decolonizing the entire household versus decolonizing the index case alone. METHODS An open-label, randomized trial enrolled 183 pediatric patients (cases) with community-onset S. aureus skin abscesses and colonization of anterior na...