OBJECTIVES To determine potential partners for pregnant women in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV and to determine pregnant women's perceptions towards selected potential HIV prevention efforts. DESIGN Cross sectional, questionnaire-administered study. SETTING Ante-natal clinics of eleven public health centers and the major referral and university teaching hospital of Q...

We compared self- and spouse reports of snoring and other symptoms of sleep apnea syndrome ascertained from married couples in a community-based survey. Agreement between the two types of report varied between 70-98%, but was modest (kappa = -0.01-0.52) when adjusted for chance. For men, spouse reports yielded higher prevalence rates for snoring and for four other symptoms. For women, estimates...

rapidly in the developed world over the past 20 years. The World Health Organization (1998) describes this pattern as a “global epidemic.” In the United States, one-quarter of adults are obese, with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher; 50 to 60 percent are classified as overweight or obese with a BMI of 25 or higher (Flegal et al. 2002). Although obesity is increasingly common in the United...

OBJECTIVES To report the self-assessed views of a cohort of medical graduates about the impact of having (or wanting to have) children on their specialty choice and the extent to which their employer was supportive of doctors with children. SETTING United Kingdom (UK). PARTICIPANTS UK medical graduates of 2002 surveyed by post and email in 2014. RESULTS The response rate was 64.2% (2057/3...

objective: this survey aimed at finding a model for determining the direct and indirect effects of spouse abuse on the psychological health of victimized women as well as analysis of the mediating roles of social support and coping mechanisms on the relationship between spouse abuse and psychological health condition. methods: a total of 192 women were selected by random sampling. they complete...

The article attempts to determine the legal status of former spouse, that is, person with whom marital relationship has been terminated, in context various spheres life — property relations, family, hereditary, corporate, competitive, etc. Based on analysis judicial practice and doctrinal positions some designated areas, key imperfections have identified require their solution normative registr...

BACKGROUND In ageing populations, informal care holds great potential to limit rising health care expenditure. The majority of informal care is delivered by spouses. The loss of informal care due to the death of the spouse could therefore increase expenditure levels for formal care. OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of the death of the spouse on health care expenditure by older people throu...