introduction: conflict is inevitable in workplaces and it is very important to manage it in a proper way to minimize the problems that might arise. the aim of this research is surveying the relationship between principals’ demographic characteristics and the choice of conflict management styles. methods: the statistical society included 213 employed principals of shiraz high schools. the data o...

abstract: introduction: abiding with ethical discipline in nursing leads to improving nursing services and promoting the patient’s health. due to the fact that patients are the most critical elements in health care organizations, this study was carried out with the aim of determine compliance with professional ethics and its relationship with associated demographic factors from the vantage poin...

this study examined the relationship between some socio- demographic variables, medical orientations and utilization of health services of urban in comparison with rural head of households. the data for this study were obtained as part of 1975 health survey of the southern provinces of iran. the finding revealed a significant relationship between the indices used in this study, particularly in ...

a field study was conducted in semnan to measure the vaccination coverage rate in children from birth to 24   months and correlate the outcome with personal family and social characteristics of the subjects in 1372 (1994).   a total of 210 children below the age of 24 months, living in semnan were selected randomly from thirty district   points of the town .   to gather the data a two section q...

BACKGROUND There has been limited work comparing survey characteristics and assessing the quality of child anthropometric data from population-based surveys. OBJECTIVE To investigate survey characteristics and indicators of quality of anthropometric data in children aged 0-59 months from 23 countries in the West Central Africa region. METHODS Using established methodologies and criteria to ...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the number of cases and prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among older adults in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS We reviewed data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Although in these surveys all female respondents are < 50 years of age, 18 of the surveys contained data on HIV infection among men aged ≥ 50 years. To estimate the percentage of o...

Results: Testing was significantly higher in 2008 compared with the previous surveys. In 1998, 14.7% of the women had tested for HIV. The rate increased to 15.0% in 2003 and then to 59.2% in 2008. In the 1998 and 2003 Kenya Demographic and Health surveys, respondents’ age, region of residence, education, knowledge of someone who had died from HIV-related illness and media exposure were the main...

In this paper we analyze the changing relationship between childbearing and abortion in Ukraine, which has had one of the world’s highest abortion rates and lowest fertility rates. Using the 2007 Ukrainian Demographic and Health Survey, we examine changes in abortion before and after the dramatic fertility decline. We estimate event history models for first abortions as well as competing risks ...

One major limitation to addressing child undernutrition is a lack of the information required to target resources. This article extends the small-area estimation technique of Elbers, Lanjouw, and Lanjouw (2002, 2003) to jointly estimate multiple equations while allowing for individual-specific random errors across equations (in addition to clusterand household-specific random errors). Estimates...