Effect of mother support groups on nutritional status in children under two years of age in Laisamis village, Kenya.

Background: In tackling the ongoing malnutrition problem in many parts of Kenya, the government has initialized preventive actions such as mother support groups in order to improve health and nutrition among children. Few studies have evaluated the effectiveness of such intervention.

Objective: This study aimed at determining how mother support groups affect the nutrition status of children under 2 years of age.

Infertility experience and health differentials - a population-based comparative study on infertile and non-infertile women (the HUNT Study).

Objective: Studies suggest that health complaints, distress and poor life satisfaction are associated with infertility experience. Research on health consequences of infertility experience in women has relied heavily on clinic-based samples. This population-based study investigates the association between infertility and health and life satisfaction.

Has fertility declined from mid-1990s to mid-2000s?

Objective: To assess changes in self-reported fertility from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s.

Design: The study is a retrospective population-based study.

Setting: The study applied a dataset from two cross-sectional surveys conducted in the mid-1990s and some 10 years later, inviting all women in a county in Norway.

Social inequalities in mortality in older women cannot be explained by biological and health behavioural factors -- results from a Norwegian health survey (the HUNT Study).

Aims: To assess mortality inequalities related to education, employment and marital status in older women, and whether educational and employment inequalities can be explained by biological, health behavioural or marital factors.

Methods: Data, collected by questionnaires and medical examinations, on 5607 Norwegian women aged > or =70 participating in the population-based Nord-Trøndelag health study in 1995-97, were linked with information from the Death Registry at Statistics Norway at 31.12.

Socioeconomic inequalities in health in older women.

Socioeconomic status differentials in health are well documented. Less is known about the socioeconomic variation in health in older people, and in older women in particular. The aim of the study was to examine the association between socioeconomic status and health in older women in relation to two indicators of socioeconomic status and three measures of health, and further, to investigate whether socioeconomic differences in health increase or decrease with advancing age.

Socioeconomic factors and health in two generations of Norwegian women.

Background: The effects of social determinants on health have been largely studied in men. There has also been a tendency to disregard historical context in studies of inequalities in health.

Objective: This study assessed the effects of social determinants on women's health, especially those associated with the radical changes in their lives in the past 50 years, such as increased opportunities for higher education and employment.

Fertility in Norwegian women: results from a population-based health survey.

Aims: Reproductive behaviour has changed during the most recent decades, with increased infertility and subfertility. This study evaluated fertility, estimated the prevalence of fertility problems, and assessed possible predictors for impaired fertility.

Methods: Eligible subjects were 9,983 menopausal women participating in two health surveys.