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The demographic impact of child immunisation programmes in developing countries: a strategy for assessment
No full textThe expanded Programme on Immunisation: mortality consequences and demographic impact in developing countries
No full textIf it's not in the blood: Group definitions and social context in the new age of travelling
No full textMaternal health care service use among rural-urban migrants in Mumbai, India
No full textThe provision of prenatal care and the promotion of institutional childbirth have the potential to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality, both through the identification of problems during pregnancy and by providing women with information about the benefits of delivering in a medical institution
Child immunisation in Ghana: the effects of family, location and social disparity
No full textThe data from the Demographic and Health Survey conducted in Ghana in 1988 are used to identify determinants of immunisation uptake for children under 5 years. The logistic binomial analysis shows that socioeconomic factors are significant, especially women's education and region, and that the type of prenatal care received by the mother is also important. There is a strong familial correlation of vaccination behaviours, and there is also clustering of data within enumeration areas
'New age' travellers, urban slum dwellers, aborigines and drug users: experiences of collecting sensitive data from marginalised communities
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Child immunisation programmes in developing countries: a general impact assessment approach
No full textFactors influencing outcome in consultations for chronic pelvic pain
No full textWe aimed to document the demographic and clinical characteristics of women referred by primary care physicians for investigation of chronic pelvic pain to a university hospital gynecology outpatient clinic and to test the hypothesis that specific patient features and the quality of doctor/patient communication at the initial consultation would influence pain outcomes. A clinical questionnaire, visual analog scales for pain, and instruments for hostility and the experience of the consultation were administered at the initial clinic attendance to 105 consecutive women. Follow-up pain scores were obtained 6 months later from 98 women. The mean hostility score was highly significantly elevated compared with normative data (
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