results it was found that mothers of the case group had a greater susceptibility to depression than those of the control group, that is, breastfeeding status was directly associated with susceptibility to depression (p = 0.001, or = 5.48). furthermore, there was a significant association between basic characteristics such as maternal occupational status (p = 0.04) or their educations (p = 0.006...

Enacted in 1948 in Japan, the Eugenic Protection Act originates from the national eugenic law (also called the sterilization law) and had con­ siderable eugenic ideology. Article 1 of this Act states its purpose that “from the eugenic point of view, it aims to prevent the birth of inferior off­ spring as well as to protect maternal life and health.” The association of maternal welfare was estab...

Early life experiences can be important in determining offspring phenotypes and may influence interaction with the environment and hence health, welfare, and productivity. The prenatal environment of poultry can be divided into the pre-lay environment and the egg storage/incubation environment, both of which can affect offspring outcomes. The ability to separate maternal and egg/incubation effe...

OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to explore the inter-relationships among maternal death, household economic status after the event, and potential influencing factors. METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort study of households that had experienced maternal death (n = 195) and those that experienced childbirth without maternal death (n = 384) in rural China. All the households were interv...

Sub-Saharan Africa is a highly diverse geo-political region. Any brief discussion of the progress made over the last 15 years towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will therefore not do justice to the true complexity of context and events. Our focus will be MDG4-to reduce child mortality by 66% from 1990 levels. We will touch briefly on MDG1, to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, M...

Family Welfare—Reproductive and Child Health Project—Maternal Health provision of birthCompanion in the Secondary and Tertiary Hospitals—Guidelines—Issued. HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (R1) DEPARTMENT G.O.(Ms.) No.215Date: 2.7.2004Read:

Background: Identifying determinants of maternal mortality is essential in developing appropriate health policies for reduction of maternal death. This study aimed to determine the determinants of maternal mortality in Iran during 1990- 2015 and also to identify the trends of these determinants during the same period. Methods: This is a quantitative longitudinal study that has been conducted a...

This study examines whether maternal employment affects the health status of low-income, elementary-school-aged children using instrumental variables estimation and experimental data from a welfare-to-work program implemented in the early 1990s. Maternal report of child health status is predicted as a function of exogenous variation in maternal employment associated with random assignment to th...

Previous research indicates that welfare reform policies – work requirements, sanctions, and child support enforcement – had negative consequences for mothers’ health insurance coverage and use of health care service, but there is very little evidence that these policies affected maternal health. This paper examines the effects of post-reform welfare and child support policies on maternal healt...

Using longitudinal data from a sample of 187 mothers who transitioned from welfare to work under welfare reform in Michigan, we examine the correlations between combinations of maternal work and welfare use and the school progress of these mothers’ teenage children. Results suggest that, relative to remaining on welfare, teenagers whose mothers left welfare completely or combined welfare and wo...