OBJECTIVE Himalayan mountain populations have been dependent upon indigenous plant resources for their health care for many years. Tribal women are interested in use of local herbs for cosmetic purposes. The present work is based on the results of research conducted on cosmetic uses of some important plants by the tribal women in District Poonch, Azad Kashmir Pakistan. MATERIALS AND METHODS A...

Retrospective assessment of maternal smoking or substance use during pregnancy is sometimes unavoidable. The unusually close relationship of twin sister pairs permits comparison of self-report data versus co-twin informant data on substance use during pregnancy. Information about smoking during pregnancy has been gathered from a series of mothers from an Australian volunteer twin panel (576 wom...

this paper is concerned with the representation of women in kurdish proverbs based on social interpretive approach and through emic orientation. considering the constitutive function of common sense to produce social knowledge, the paper aims to explore the situation given to women in kurdish proverbs as a part of oral literature. in this respect, the women-related proverbs have been purposivel...

background: infertility makes an essential challenge to the sexual life of couples, especially infertile women. when pregnancy does not happen, infertile women think that sexual intercourse is not fruitful and sexual desire became reduce gradually. infertile women progressively forget that their sexual relationship is also a response to their natural need. objective: this qualitative study was ...

PURPOSE Between 4-15% of pregnant women are believed to be infected with syphilis in sub-Saharan Africa. Active infection with syphilis in pregnant women results in foetal or infant death or disability for 50-80% of affected pregnancies, and is a major cause of adult morbidity as well. Antenatal syphilis screening is cheap and effective; however, it is often poorly implemented in countries with...

This paper reports finding from a study carried out in a remote rural area of Bangladesh during December 2000. Nineteen key informants were interviewed for collecting data on domestic violence against women. Each key informant provided information about 10 closest neighbouring ever-married women covering a total of 190 women. The questionnaire included information about frequency of physical vi...

This paper addresses how gender and age, as macro-sociological factors, influence variation change in the Northern Moroccan Arabic variety of Ouezzane, social meaning plays a role this variation. To do so, it examines high degree variability realization two phonetic variables, voiceless alveolar plosive /t/ uvular /q/, corpus semi-scripted interviews with 20 local informants. The data for study...