background: intrapartam complications such as foetal malpresentation, placental abruption, dysfunctional labour, and postpartum haemorrhage are associated with grandmultiparity. in developing countries and many parts of africa and sub-saharan africa, there is limited access to medical care. there is a need in these areas to identify women whose pregnancies are at risk of complication and it is ...

abstract the high prevalence of diabetes in iran and other developing countries is chiefly attributed to urbanization. the objectives of the present study were to assess the prevalence of self-reported diabetes and to determine its associated risk factors. this study is a part of the national noncommunicable disease risk factor surveillance, conducted in 31 provinces of iran in 2011. first, 100...

The inadequate supply of health workers and demand-side barriers due to clinical practice that heeds too little attention to cultural context are serious obstacles to achieving universal health coverage and the fulfillment of the human rights to health, especially for the poor and vulnerable living in remote rural areas. A number of strategies have been deployed to increase both the supply of h...

drought has different effects on human life and livelihood groups.this study the characteristics of drought and the zoning was done in the zanjan province is the kriging model than phenomenon to the effects of drought on the rural site selection consideration.drought has different effects on human life and livelihood groups.this study the characteristics of drought and the zoning was done in th...

AbstractThe high prevalence of diabetes in Iran and other developing countries is chiefly attributed to urbanization. The objectives of the present study were to assess the prevalence of self-reported diabetes and to determine its associated risk factors. This study is a part of the national noncommunicable disease risk factor surveillance, conducted in 31 provinces of Iran in 2011. First, 1006...

Using GIS-based land use map for the urban-rural division (the relative ratio of population density adjusted to relatively Aedes-infested land area), we demonstrated significant independent observations of seasonal and geographical variation of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus vectors between Muang Narathiwat district (urban setting) and neighbor districts (rural setting) of Narathiwat, South...

INTRODUCTON In the USA, area health education centers (AHECs) work to recruit and educate students to serve in medically underserved communities, primary care, and rural settings. One important aspect of their work is connecting students with rural clinical experiences. Within these experiences, AHECs incorporate a community health/socioeconomic experience within the family medicine clerkship t...

This study aimed at discussing and representing discourse analysis of classroom talk in two contexts. It is significant, since it considers different genres of talk, cultural and social identities, social relations, different ideologies and many other aspects in this analysis. It attempts to analyze the dominant classroom patterns in two contexts. Two cases of study were analyzed in this study:...

Rural nursing is recognized as a unique health care domain. Within that context, the preceptorship experience is purported to be an important approach to preparing safe and competent rural practitioners. Preceptorship is the one-to-one pairing of a nursing student with a professional nurse who assumes the mandate of teacher and role model in a designated clinical/contextual setting, in this cas...