nutritionally at-risk low-income pregnant women, new mothers, infants, and children through age 4. This report updates estimates of …

Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) on beneficiaries' health, health-related behaviors, and …

for future research and especially a strong need for more multilevel approaches to study men’s and women’s expatriate …

Women commit significantly fewer murders than men and are perceived to be less violent. This belief about women’s non …-violence reflects the discourses surrounding gender, all of which assume that women possess certain inherent essential characteristics … such as passivity and gentleness. When women commit murder the fundamental social structures based on appropriate feminine …

represented in women’s claims to land, and reveals how changes in women’s access to land over the years allows for a reading of …

Invasive cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide, with approximately 85% of the disease … burden occurring in developing countries. To date, there have been few systematic efforts to document African women … were conducted with 60 women who had recently undergone cervical cancer screening at a government-operated primary health …

–November 2007) enrolled 41 women to participate in an open-ended interview or true-false consensus questionnaire. The second data … knowledge impacted infant health outcomes and treatment. Women and infants in this data collection period (n = 251 pairs … treating infants at a dispensary versus at home. Finally, women with greater knowledge of traditional medicine had infants who …

Theory predicts that land ownership empowers women to avoid HIV acquisition by reducing their reliance on risky …. Using a sample of 5511 women working in the agricultural sector from the 1998, 2003 and 2008–09 Kenya Demographic and Health … Surveys, we examined the relationship between women's land ownership and participation in transactional sex, multiple sexual …

Overall birth experience is an important outcome of birth, and studies of psycho-social birth outcomes and women … on women’s birth experiences and perceptions of care in two freestanding midwifery units (FMU) and two obstetric units … cohort study, a postal questionnaire survey was undertaken. Two hundred and eighteen low-risk women in FMU care, admitted …