BACKGROUND The major causes of maternal and perinatal deaths are mostly pregnancy related. However, there are several predisposing factors for the increased risk of pregnancy related complications and deaths in developing countries. The objective of this review was to grossly estimate the effect of selected socioeconomic and cultural factors on maternal mortality, stillbirths and neonatal morta...

A study on a few selected socio-biological determinants of birth weight was conducted at a rural project hospital in Haryana. Records of 2292 singleton live births over a period of two years (1985-1987) were analysed, by bivariate and multivariate methods. The mean birth weight of the infants was 2715 g (S.D. 453). Mean birth weight of male infants was 92 g more than female infants. Literacy le...

AIMS Oral language is the foundation of literacy. Naturally, policies and practices to promote children's literacy begin in early childhood and have a strong focus on developing children's oral language, especially for children with known risk factors for low language ability. The underlying assumption is that children's progress along the oral to literate continuum is stable and predictable, s...

background: low health literacy (hl) of patients has obtained more attention as a risk factor for poor adherence to treatment and adverse outcomes in chronic disease’s management particular in diabetes care. diabetes numeracy test‑15 (dnt‑15) has been developed specifically for this purpose. the objective of the current study is to evaluate psychometric properties of iranian (persian) version o...

background and objectives: patient satisfaction is an important indicator of the quality of health and healthcare services. most relevant studies in iran have been conducted in the nation’s capital, and there is a lack of large-scale studies in other regions of this country. in order to help filling this gap, this study was designed to undertake a relatively large-scale assessment of patient sa...

BACKGROUND Health literacy has been defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. Currently, few studies have validated the causal pathways of determinants of health literacy through the use of statistical modeling. The purpose of the present study was to deve...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship between health literacy and compliance, disease awareness, and disease progression in patients with glaucoma. METHODS A cross-sectional observational study of 204 English-speaking patients treated for glaucoma for at least 1 year at Kresge Eye Institute was conducted. Health literacy was assessed using the standardized Test of Functional Health Literacy in...

BACKGROUND Health literacy is an important determinant of health, but national health literacy levels are known for only some European countries. This study aims to examine to what extent national health literacy levels can be estimated based on publicly available census data. METHOD Multivariate models were used to predict two types of health literacy on population level. Predictors were sel...