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J Educ Health Promot
December 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, Shri MP Shah Medical College Gujarat, India.
Background: Accurate determination of infant mortality causes and understanding sociocultural factors influencing care-seeking behaviors are crucial for targeted interventions in resource-limited settings. This mixed-methods study aimed to assess the accuracy of verbal autopsy (VA) in ascertaining infant death causes and explore sociocultural determinants of infant mortality in Gujarat, India.
Materials And Methods: It was a mixed-method study with a retrospective cohort component for which data from 661 infant records were extracted from the main health office's database, with a subset of 328 infant deaths selected for verbal autopsy analysis.
Breathe (Sheff)
January 2025
Sakarya University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, Internal Disease Nursing, Sakarya, Türkiye.
Nursing plays a critical role in delivering healthcare services. It is a health discipline encompassing both science and art, designed to support people from birth to the end of life, in health and illness. Nurses are required to identify the physical and psychological needs of individuals, families and society with a comprehensive, human-oriented approach and to meet these needs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Obstet Gynaecol Res
January 2025
Department of Public Health, Dokkyo Medical University, School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan.
Aim: The long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on birth and pregnancy trends in Japan remain unclear. Although major sporting events are usually followed by an increase in births 9 months later, Japan's fifth wave of COVID-19 occurred during the Olympics held in Japan during the summer of 2021. In this study, we analyzed how the number of births and pregnancies changed during the COVID-19 pandemic and large-scale events in Japan.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Epidemiol Popul Health
January 2025
CépiDc, Inserm, Paris, France; France Cohortes, Inserm, Paris, France.
Background: In France, the infant mortality rate had a long period of decline, but it stopped decreasing after 2010 and then rose. Neonatal mortality is a large part of infant mortality. The aim of this study was thus to describe its main changes, by cause of death and gestational age, and the main changes in socio-spatial distribution, from 2001 to 2017.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMatern Child Health J
January 2025
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Objective: Development of postpartum depressive symptoms (PDS) is influenced by many social determinants of health, including income, discrimination, and other stressful life experiences. Early recognition of PDS is essential to reduce its long-term impact on mothers and their children, but postpartum checkups are highly underutilized. This study examined how stressful life experiences and race-based discrimination influence PDS development and whether or not a women has a postpartum checkup.
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