background: the current study estimated the national prevalence rate of intimate partner violence against women (ipvaw) in nepal. besides, the individual level, empowerment level, family and societal level factors were assessed to relate with the victims of ipavw in nepal. methods: nationally representative sample of 4210 women of reproductive age (15-49 yr) were included in the study. househol...

Overweight or obese adults aged 20~55 years and living in Beijing more than one year were randomly divided into different management groups. A one-year integrated health management intervention was applied in the health management groups. The physical indicators and metabolic indicators changed after one-year intervention on the overweight and obese adults. The annual reduction of the physical ...

METHODS This state obesity dashboard design was based on the County Health Rankings (Rankings) model, a population health model which highlights key factors that, if improved, would make the counties and communities healthier places to live.6 The Rankings measures health based on 3 elements: health outcomes, health factors, and policies and programs.7 While in the Rankings model adult obesity r...

The current practice of assessing infants' pain depends on using subjective tools that fail to meet rigorous psychometric standards and requires continuous monitoring by health professionals. Therefore, pain may be misinterpreted or totally missed leading to misdiagnosis and over/under treatment. To address these shortcomings, the current practice can be augmented with a machine-based assessmen...

Distributed word representations are very useful for capturing semantic information and have been successfully applied in a variety of NLP tasks, especially on English. In this work, we innovatively develop two component-enhanced Chinese character embedding models and their bigram extensions. Distinguished from English word embeddings, our models explore the compositions of Chinese characters, ...

Invasive plant species may alter soil characteristics or interact with the microbial community resulting in a competitive advantage. Our objectives were to determine: i) if invasive properties; and ii) long-term effects of on properties subsequent implications ecological restoration efforts. We focused Lespedeza cuneata, that be allelopathic. Soil samples collected from four locations Central M...

Methods AÂ retrospective study was carried out from November 2009 to March 2010. Medical records from adult inpatients submitted to cardiac, neurological and orthopedic clean surgeries were included. The quality indicators for antibiotic prophylaxis conformity were validated in a previous study. They were composed of six parameters of adequacy as stated by the Hospital Infection Control Committ...

Introduction: There are little attention about health spending and public health outcomes especially in the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region. This  paper  presents  an  overview  on  health  spending  and  public health  outcomes  in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean countries during 1995-2011. Methods: This study conducted in 2013 use of health expenditure...

background: socioeconomic status (ses) is a major determinant of health inequality in children and adolescents. the aim of this study was to evaluate the association of ses of family and living region with self-rated health (srh) and life satisfaction (ls) among children and adolescents.   methods: this study was a part of the fourth survey of a national surveillance program, which was conducte...

background measuring health status by using standardized and validated instrument has become a growing concern over the past few decades throughout the developed and developing countries. the aim of the study was to investigate the overall self-reported health status along with potential inequalities by using euroqol 5 dimensions (eq-5d) instrument among low-income people of bangladesh.   me...