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The Demography of Mental Health Among Mature Adults in a Low-Income High HIV-Prevalence Context
Demography Mental Health Malawi HIV Stress Con-Communicable Diseases. Sub-Saharan Africa Adults
2016/3/17
While a nascent body of research investigates the shift in sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA's) disease burden towards
non-communicable diseases (NCDs), very few studies have investigated mental health, spec...
Prevalence and Determinants of Unintended Pregnancies in Malawi
Unintended pregnancy Demographic and Health Survey prevalence
2015/7/27
Available statistics indicate high levels of unintended pregnancies in Africa. This study examines the prevalence and determinants of unintended pregnancies in Malawi based on 2,144 pregnant women ext...
Prevalence and Predictors of elder abuse in Mafikeng Local Municipality in South Africa
Elderly Mistreatment Abuse
2015/7/27
Elder abuse is widespread in South Africa and is a serious public health problem. This paper estimated the prevalence and identified the forms and predictors of elder abuse. The paper used cross-sec...
Gender Disparity in HIV Prevalence: A National-Level Analysis of the Association between Gender Inequality and the Feminisation of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
HIV/AIDS gender inequality feminisation
2015/7/27
The HIV pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa is often described as undergoing a ‘feminisation’ in which female HIV prevalence exceeds that of male in most age groups and countries. However, much of the vari...
Unintended pregnancy among married women in Damot Gale District,Southern Ethiopia:Examining the prevalence and risk factors
Unwanted pregnancy contraception determinants Southern Ethiopia Damot Gale
2015/7/23
The main objective of this study is to examine the prevalence and risk factors for unintended pregnancies among selected married women in Damot Gale Woreda (a district in Southern Ethiopia). A multist...
Estimates of Age-Specific Reductions in HIV Prevalence in Uganda: Bayesian Melding Estimation and Probabilistic Population Forecast with an HIV-enabled Cohort Component Projection Model
Africa AIDS/HIV Bayesian melding Cohort Component Model of Population Projection estimation forecast IMIS incidence prevalence Tanzania Uganda
2014/11/21
Background: Much of our knowledge of the epidemiology and demography of HIV epidemics in Africa is derived from models fit to sparse, non-representative data. These often average over age and other im...
Screening Criteria for Chlamydia trachomatis in Family Planning Clinics:Accounting for Prevalence and Clients' Characteristics
Chlamydia trachomatis women Family Planning Clinics
2009/9/14
The reliability of eight self-reported risk factors as criteria for screening women for Chlamydia trachomatis was evaluated in four family planning clinics in New York State that serve diverse populat...
Community-based Incentives:Increasing Contraceptive Prevalence and Economic Opportunity
Contraceptive Prevalence Economic Opportunity population programmes
2009/4/24
This article describes the successful implementation of a project in rural Thailand that used loans as incentives for promoting small-scale income-generating activities and the practice of contracepti...
Prevalence and Correlates of Morbidity in Pregnant Women in an Urban Slum of New Delhi
Morbidity in Pregnant Women Urban Slum New Delhi
2009/4/1
This study assesses the prevalence of symptoms of morbidity among pregnant women in an urban slum of New Delhi. Of 1,396 pregnant women questioned at 37 weeks gestation, 12 per cent reported symptoms ...
Hotspots and Coldspots:Household and village-level variation in orphanhood prevalence in rural Malawi
Africa AIDS/HIV Malawi multilevel model orphan prevalence orphans spatial analysis
2008/12/18
We explore the spatial distribution of orphans in two areas of Malawi. We first review pertinent themes in qualitative data collected in our research sites. Then, using spatial analysis, we show how p...
Inconsistencies in age profiles of HIV prevalence A dynamic model applied to Zambia
AIDS/HIV dynamics of epidemics heterosexual transmission mathematical model Sub-Saharan Africa Zambia
2008/12/12
A two-sex compartmental model of the dynamics of HIV infection was developed and applied to the case of Zambia. Parameters include age specific rates of fertility, mortality, entry into sexual life, n...
Change in the Prevalence of Diseases among Older Americans:1984-1994
disability morbidity trends older population comorbidity
2008/11/28
The reported prevalence of diseases increased among older Americans in recent years. The largest increases have been in the proportion of the population with heart disease and cancer. There has also b...
Prevalence and Management of Malaria in Ghana: A Case Study of Volta Region
District fever health malaria Ghana Volta Region
2008/4/9
Volta Region, one of Ghana's ten administrative regions, has the highest prevalence of malaria in the country. The present paper assesses the patterns, levels, and trends of malaria prevalence among i...