Perception of Beninese on intimate partner violence: evidence from 2011-2012 Benin demographic health survey.

Background: Violence against women remains an important issue of inequality in African societies, with several consequences to health, social and economic status. This study aims to identify the factors related to the perception of intimate partner violence in Benin.

Methods: Data on intimate partner violence was collected by conducting live interviews, and from the Benin Demographic and Health Survey 2012.

[Factors associated with the poor coverage of Intermittent Preventive Treatment in pregnant women in the Pobè-Adja-Ouèrè-Kétou health zone in Benin].

World Health Organization estimates indicate 216 million malaria episodes in 2010, including 81% in the African region. One of the recommended means of prevention in pregnant women is intermittent preventive treatment, until 2012, two doses of sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine or three doesfor a woman living with HIV In the Pobè-Adja-Ouèrè-Kétou health zone of Benin, coverage ofintermittent preventive treatment remains low (49% against a forecast of 80%) several years after implementation of this strategy. We conducted a cross-sectional study in June and July 2012 to identify factors associated with low intermittent preventive treatment coverage in this area.

[Exploratory analysis of work engagement: use of the Utrecht scale in Benin].

Introduction: Work engagement, an emerging concept in the field of positive psychology in the workplace is not well known in developing countries. Defined as a positive and and fulfilling mindset related to work, it recalls a positive attitude incentive of performance and need to be investigated. In the context of the socioeconomic crisis of health workers, and with the chronic issue of poor quality of data, this study was designed to identify the factors associated with work engagement among health workers.

[Impact of parental attitudes on infant vaccinal coverage in Benin].

Few studies have addressed the impact of parental attitudes on vaccinal coverage in early childhood. The purpose of this descriptive-analytical transverse study was to assess this problem in a cohort of parents with a 12- to 23-month-old child randomly identified by cluster analysis in five communities in the Oueme department. Data were collected using a questionnaire and tabulation sheet.

[Anatomic study of early failures of aortocoronary venous bypass].

A post-mortem study of 10 patients who died soon after an aorto-coronary by-pass procedure (16 grafts) showed that 5 grafts were blocked by recent thrombus (31%) in 5 patients, 3 of whom had infarcts as a result. It seems that the two main causative factors of early thrombosis were: -the wider calibre of the saphenous graft; the ratio of the circumference of the graft to the circumference of the coronary artery at the site of anastomosis is greater when there is a graft thrombosis (5.6/1 +/- 2.

[Comparison of angiographic aspects and anatomical lesions of coronary arteries].

The coronary angiograms of 32 patients were compared with the anatomical lesions found during the postmortem examinations which were done early after the X-ray examination. The angiographic and anatomical data coincided in 81.6 per cent of all the coronary artery segments studied.