Unlike another study7, our findings indicated that women who used ambulances were at an increased risk of PLTC compared with those using other means of transportation. This may indicate that women using ambulances are already in more critical situations, necessitating emergency transport. This could ...
1, we present means for the full sample, followed by means for each province sorted from highest to lowest prevalence in terms of our lead indicator, child marriage (married before 18 years). The figure shows that prevalence of child marriage (solid gray bar) ranges from a high of 36% ...
The term ‘knowledge’ of health insurance in the context of the present study means the basic minimal information about the concept and existence of health insurance in India. Further, the Uptake of Heath Insurance was treated as another dependent binary variable (Yes, No) to explore the ...
in seeking early help by the patient.2Skin lesions and the neurological manifestation of leprosy mimic others dermatological and neurological disease.13National Leprosy Eradication Programme should appreciate these facts, reassess and come up with innovative materials and ...
Although the topic of corruption in South Asia has attracted a great deal of attention, extant research on individual-level factors is sparse. With this background, this paper examines the effect of selected individual-level determinants on South Asian people’s justifiability of corruption. For an...
It hence seems likely that the ELISA based CT IgG positivity observed in this study reflects genito-urinary infections (CT serovars D–K) [6,37]. This means that the observed trends are most likely not due to an active CT infection in the lower genital tract at the moment of enrolment,...
On the one hand, a technological view centers on the ICT role as a means to deepen and strengthen access to public information and to make city services more efficient [9,18–21]. On the other hand, a wider approach is related to notions of sustainable economic growth, quality of life,...