BACKGROUND World Health Organization recommends at least four pregnancy check-ups for normal pregnancies. Ministry of Health and Population Nepal has introduced various strategies to promote prenatal care and institutional delivery to reduce maternal and child deaths. However, maternal health service utilization is low in some selected socio-economic and ethnic groups. Hence, this study aims to...

Women are bombarded with images of women's sexual submission and subservience to male partners. The authors argue that women internalize this submissive role, namely, they associate sex implicitly with submission. The authors propose that this association leads to submissive sexual behavior, thereby reducing sexual autonomy and arousal. Study 1 found that women implicitly associated sex with su...

this research compares the psychological well-being of female heads of household and woman in male-headed in city of tehran. it was a descriptive cross-sectional study. statistical population was consisted of female heads of family under coverage of imam khomeini aid committee and woman in male-headed households in city of tehran in 2012. the sample consisted of 280 subjects including 140 femal...

OBJECTIVE To assess the perception of women who gave birth in a hospital on health system responsiveness and their satisfaction. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING Four district, one regional and one university hospitals in the Songkhla province, Southern Thailand. PARTICIPANTS All women who delivered in the participating hospitals from November 2007 to December 2008. METHODS All w...

In Brazil in the last decade there has been an increase in the susceptibility of young women to HIV. This study explored the link between autonomy, or control over major domains of economic, social and sexual life, and susceptibility to HIV infection among poor young women living in an urban slum area of Brazil. A cross-sectional survey was carried out on a random sample of 356 young women betw...

BACKGROUND Studies conducted around the world consistently show the existence of violence against women. Despite the increasing number of studies being conducted on violence against young married women elsewhere, this subject has received little attention from researchers and policy makers in Nepal. This paper assesses the prevalence of violence among young married women in rural Nepal. Specifi...