BACKGROUND To better understand patterns of occurrence or diagnosis of brain tumours in different segments of the population, we evaluated associations between sociodemographic variables and the relative incidence of brain tumours as part of a multi-faceted case-control study. METHODS The study was conducted at hospitals in three US cities between 1994 and 1998. In all, 489 glioma cases (354 ...

This retrospective study aimed to explore the sociodemographic and clinial profile of patients aged 60 years and above attending the psychiatric services of NIMHANS. Two hundred and sixty-five such patients utilized the services during one year. Preliminary analysis of the data revealed that nearly three-fourths of the patients were between 60 and 69 years of age. The family support was adequat...

INTRODUCTION Most epidemiological studies of skin cancer have been performed in countries with very different population and geographic characteristics to Spain. Investigation of this disease in the Spanish population would therefore be of interest. METHOD Over a 12-month period, this prospective study recorded the types of skin cancer in consecutive patients who attended a dermatology clinic...

OBJECTIVE To analyze sociodemographic inequalities in prenatal and childbirth care and their consequences on birth weight. METHODS The study was based on a sample of 10,072 postpartum women treated at public (those outsourced by the National Health System) and private maternity hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1999 to 2001. To test the association between birth weight and maternal so...

Children are considered fully immunized if they receive one dose of BCG, three doses of DPT and polio vaccine each, and one measles vaccine. In India, only 44% of children aged 12-23 months are fully vaccinated and about 5% have not received any vaccination at all. Even if national immunization coverage levels are sufficiently high to block disease transmission, pockets of susceptibility may ac...

background: routine dysplasia screening decreases the rates of cervical cancer. since many women seek gynecological care to secure contraception, it was hypothesized that sterilized women will be less likely to undergo routine cervical cancer screening. prior studies tried to evaluate this relationship, but results were conflicting. the study sought to further explore the sociodemographic and b...