BACKGROUND Analysing a community's needs and requirements is useful for planning a community-based health promotion programme. The literature recommends the analysis of existing population-based data, the discussion with a community's key persons, and standardised surveys among the community members. With regagrd to the latter method, German-language literature is scarce. AIM A community anal...

The European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS) was the first study to assess the geographical variation in asthma and allergy in adults using the same instruments and definitions. The database of the ECRHS includes information from approximately 140,000 individuals from 22 countries. The aim of this review is to summarize the results of the ECRHS to date. The ECRHS has shown that ther...

transportation sector is one of the major contributors to noise in the urban areas. the traffic noise environment in balasore, a city of orissa, india in terms of standard noise indices, community response and community health effects are worked out in the present study. noise pollution is assessed in six different squares (road sections) of the town. it is inferred that the noise levels are mo...

The objective of this study is to estimate associations between social capital and health when other factors are controlled for. Data from the standard-of-living survey by Statistics Norway are merged with data from several other sources. The merged files combine data at the individual level with data that describe indicators of community-level social capital related to each person's county of ...

OBJECTIVE Domestic violence is a major public health problem. A wide range of health hazards result from violence against women directly, or from its long-term consequences. The objective of this study is to determine health related consequences of domestic violence against women. METHOD A community based cross-sectional study was carried through online survey; convenience sample was taken du...

the main objective was to find association between basal cortisol and neighborhood-level stress. systematic searches, including electronic and hand searches, were conducted. the most recent date of the search was july 26, 2013. primary observational studies included if they considered stress related outcomes in the neighborhood context. using the endnote x7 advanced search option; the authors e...

background in early 1990s, tanzania like other african countries, adopted health sector reform (hsr). the most strongly held centralisation system that informed the nature of services provision including health was, thus, disintegrated giving rise to decentralisation system. it was within the realm of hsr process, user fees were introduced in the health sector. along with user fees, various typ...

objective: to identify the effects of community-based interventions on the neonatal health index in one district of tehran-iran. materials and methods: a community and healthcare center-based study was carried out from january 2011 through september 2014. the population of the study included newborns from mothers residing in the 4 th district of tehran, iran. demographic data of mothers and inf...

conclusions in spite of risk of pregnancy and unintended pregnancy in this age group, about a half of them used less effective contraceptive methods, hence family planning education, and counseling to older women should be a priority in health centers. results the mean age of women was 39.8 ± 4.2 years. the most popular contraceptive methods used in this age group were oral contraceptive pills ...

A community health survey conducted in 16 villages of three blocks of Union Territory of Pondicherry detected lame children affected by poliomyelitis among other problems identified. The survey was conducted from July 1980 to September 1981. The survey method was house-to-house, covering 97% of the houses in the study area. Prevalence of lameness due to poliomyelitis among children aged from 6 ...