Infant and child mortality rates are among the most important indicators of child health, nutrition, implementation of key survival interventions, and the overall social and economic development of a population. In this report, using data from 99 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in...

BACKGROUND: Public health research has turned towards examining upstream, community-level determinants of cardiovascular disease risk factors. Objective measures of the environment, such as those derived from direct observation, and perception-based measures by residents have both been...

BACKGROUND: The PURE study was established to investigate associations between social, behavioural, genetic, and environmental factors and cardiovascular diseases in 17 countries. In this analysis we compare the age, sex, urban/rural, mortality, and educational profiles of the PURE participants...

We describe the relationship between socio-economic status and current bidi or cigarette smoking among Indian men aged ?15 years. The prevalence of bidi smoking was 13.7% (95%CI 13.3?14.1) and that of cigarette smoking was 6.3% (95%CI 6.1?6.6). bidi smoking was concentrated among the...