BACKGROUND Racial disparities in birth outcomes persist in North Carolina and the United States. We examined patterns of birth outcomes and womens health measures in North Carolina by race and age to portray the largest disparities. We wanted to see if our data were consistent with the "weathering hypothesis," which holds that the health of African American women may begin to deteriorate in ear...

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

the main purpose of this study is to investigate the preferences of urban dwellers for variouselements of urban parks in order to provide some important suggestions for rehabilitation of urban deficient parks. inthis regard, this study has conducted a survey in one of the oldest parks in khorramabad, iran, to reveal the overallsatisfaction of the park situation and to explore the preferences of...

Reproduction and fertility are one of the principles marital life. Actually it can be said that the most important thing after survival is continued generation. The aim of this research was to determine the effects of mental health in womens of fertile and infertile. This research was performed at kowsar infertility clinic in tehran city. The scale GHQ28 was used for this evaluate. This scale w...

the quality of environmental impact assessment (eia) findings, as a decision support system, has always been a function of the extent of its boundaries. meanwhile, boundaries of a study area can be delineated physically or non-physically according to the eia working units or methodologies. six case studies have been conducted to consider the study areas of variety of eias namely, visual, cumula...

1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, LondonWC1E 6BT, UK 2Laboratoire d’Etudes Spatiales et d’Instrumentation en Astrophysique (LESIA), Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Diderot, 5 place Jules Janssen, Meudon Cedex 92195, France 3Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road...

n engl j med 374;9 nejm.org March 3, 2016 1. Stuenkel CA, Davis SR, Gompel A, et al. Treatment of symptoms of the menopause: an Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2015; 100: 3975-4011. 2. Santen RJ, Stuenkel CA, Burger HG, Manson JE. Competency in menopause management: whither goest the internist? J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2014; 23: 281-5. 3. Hsieh E, Nunez-S...

today, unemployment has become a major problem in national level as well as in yazd province. the presence of high unemployment has caused considerable amount of wastage of active human resources of the society which otherwise could have been used in various prosperous activities. as a result this situation may lead to poverty, corruption, unequal income distribution and other negative conseque...