Background In Ecuador, access to maternity services remains significantly lower amongst indigenous women compared with non-indigenous women partly due to cultural barriers [1]. A hospital in Ecuador where the indigenous rights movement is particularly strong implemented the Vertical Birth (VB) policy to increase indigenous womens’ access to maternity services by adapting services to the local c...

popular music has various functions in social intreactions. this study tries to answer the questions, “what are the roles of popular music in creating and developing social capital?” and through what mechanisms it leads to the generation of social capital?” the research method used in this study was qualitative including grounded theory strategy. the research data were collected through in-dept...

Submit your manuscript here: http://www.dovepress.com/international-journal-of-womens-health-journal The International Journal of Women’s Health is an international, peerreviewed open-access journal publishing original research, reports, editorials, reviews and commentaries on all aspects of women’s healthcare including gynecology, obstetrics, and breast cancer. The manuscript management system...

(Abstracted from BMC Womens Health 2022;22(1):19) Previous studies indicate that lesbian and bisexual (LB) females are more likely to be obese than straight females. Little is known, however, about whether provider diagnosis recommendation for weight management vary across these populations.

Background & aim:  Gender roles are affected by biosocial and cultural factors. These roles have significant impacts on one’s professional, social, and family life. Therefore, given the recent changes in gender roles in Iran, we aimed to determine the relationship between demographic factors and gender role attitudes among women. Methods:This cross-sectional study was conducted on 712 females, ...

Introduction: Breastfeeding is the responsibility of a woman who has baby. The decision Indonesian Ministry Health assign exclusive breastfeeding was given for 6 months and continues until 2 years old. Until now in Indonesia there are still many women have not to their babies. failure give caused by several factors, one which husband's support mother's attitude. Objective: To determine relation...

the sampling method is simple random sampling. in order to measure women's social adjustment social adjustment scale (sas) was used.there is a significant relationship between women and motherhood in social attitudes. consensual relationships between people and tends to be a mother, there is a significant relationship. the social adjustment of status after marriage roles as wives and mothe...

From the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Department of Pharmacology, and Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, the Magee-Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, the Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 194223, Russia, the Department of Medical Ch...