The Bhutanese-Nepali community in the United States, estimated to be greater than 100,000, has been fleeing religious and ethnic persecution since the 1980s. Ohio ranks fifth in the United States in the number of resettled Bhutanese-Nepali refugees. Studies have shown refugee wo…
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Background: In Oman, 33.3% of women attended late for publicly funded antenatal care in 2015 and 24% did not attend for the recommended 4-6 visits during their pregnancy. This low attendance suggests a need to explore attendance for antenatal care for low-risk pregnant women in …
The association of exposure to wood smoke from cooking with low birth weight (LBW) and fatal birth outcomes was studied using comparison to natural gas (NG) users, in a historical cohort of women living in a semi-rural area of southern Pakistan. Birth records from 2000 to 2002 a…
One way to evaluate economic development is in terms of health. This dissertation examines the link between economic status and several indicators of health. These essays look at prenatal care in Indonesia, indoor fuel use and child health in Indonesia, and child psychological h…
Social determinants of health present significant barriers to utilization of maternal health services in transitional countries. This dissertation study examined associations between household autonomy and utilization of prenatal services among women of reproductive age in Armen…
Objectives: This study examined prenatal care use among women in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the West African region. The primary analysis examined variations by individual and national measures of wealth and literacy. Secondary analyses examined whether adequate prenatal ca…
One essential component of the maternal and child health program in Indonesia is the provision of prenatal care, which has long been a high priority of the government in their efforts to reduce the incidence of adverse birth outcomes, including low birthweight. However, the empi…
Each year almost 600,000 women worldwide die of complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Most of these deaths could be avoided through proper medical attention. This study investigates selected determinants of maternal health care, as put forth in the conceptual framework desi…
The purpose of this study was to examine the incidence of antenatal versus postnatal pathologies in children from three aggregated Southwest archaeological sites dating to between AD 1225-1450: Grasshopper Pueblo (n=334), Turkey Creek Pueblo (n=51), and Point of Pines Pueblo (n=…