International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS)
International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes material on all aspects of public health science. This IJPHS provides the ideal platform for the discussion of more sophisticated public health research and practice for authors and readers world wide. The priorities are originality and excellence. The journal welcomes high-impact articles on emerging public health science that covers (but not limited) to epidemiology, biostatistics, nutrition, family health, infectious diseases, health services research, gerontology, child health, adolescent health, behavioral medicine, rural health, chronic diseases, health promotion, evaluation and intervention, public health policy and management, health economics, occupational health and environmental health.
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<![CDATA[Student’s Perception and Attitudes toward Public Health Profession and National Competency Examination ]]>
<![CDATA[Lafi Munira]]>;
<![CDATA[Lina Handayani]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) Vol 3, No 2: June 2014 ]]>
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DOI: 10.11591/ijphs.v3i2.4685
<![CDATA[One form of quality assurance is convening public health’s national competencies examination in academic phase which is conducted before students graduate from university. The purpose of this study was to determine students’s perceptions and attitudes about public health’s profession and national competencies examination. The design of this study was descriptive qualitative employed case study approach. Focus group discussion was used to collect data. Data were analyzed by content analysis. Students felt less confident about their identity profession so that requires motivation by lecturer. Students expressed the need to improve public health graduates’s competencies since academic phase. National competencies examination is important to do as a solution to guarantee the graduates’s quality. Implementation of the competencies test is need to consider aspects of management and technical readiness. National competencies examination is a tool that could proves the identity of public health graduates’s competencies. Everyone with a public health background should know that there will be a competency test then they should have an adequate preparation.]]>
<![CDATA[Immunomodulatory Effects of Papain in Patients with Cervical Ectopies ]]>
<![CDATA[Dilorom Abdullaevna Musakhodjeva]]>;
<![CDATA[Marufjon Abidovich Yuldashev]]>;
<![CDATA[Neqqadam Abdullaevich Nuraliev]]>;
<![CDATA[Rano Turdievna Sabitova]]>;
<![CDATA[Gulnara Yangieva]]>;
<![CDATA[Nigora Yakhayevna Fayzullaeva]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) Vol 3, No 2: June 2014 ]]>
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DOI: 10.11591/ijphs.v3i2.4678
<![CDATA[The study detected that in patients with cervical ectopia production of cytokines (TNFα, IL-4 и IL-10) was significantly altered. The degree of changedepended on the presence or absence of infection. Conducted therapy withherbal enzyme - papain contributed to the cupping of inflammation andnormalization of the concentration of the studied cytokines.]]>
<![CDATA[Cardiovascular Health Behaviors and Risk Factors Among Argentine and American University Students ]]>
<![CDATA[Gabriella Lynne Smith]]>;
<![CDATA[Gina Fitzgerald]]>;
<![CDATA[Don Thompson]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) Vol 3, No 2: June 2014 ]]>
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DOI: 10.11591/ijphs.v3i2.4683
<![CDATA[Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in adults in both theUnited States and Argentina. Scientific literature has consistently shown the effects of behaviors and risk factors on cardiovascular health; however, few have investigated cardiovascular behaviors and risk factors in early adulthood. We assessed the associations between main cardiovascular behaviors and cardiovascular risk factors among 594 young adults in a crosscultural analysis between the United States and Argentina through a webbased survey and vital statistics measurements. We tested our data through principle component analysis, bivariate correlations, and independent sample T-tests.After thorough analysis we saw that, cross culturally, correlations exist between cardiovascular risk factors and behaviors that are consistent in both populations. Health habit, health knowledge, health history and BMI are all significantly correlated with mean arterial pressure. T-tests showed that population groups with a higher risk factor mean also had lower behavior means, indicating that populations with poor cardiovascular behaviors correlate with an accumulation of cardiovascular risk factors. In conclusion, young adults with low prevalence of cardiovascular health behaviors have low prevalence of cardiovascular health risk factors.]]>
<![CDATA[Measuring Efficiency of Hospitals by DEA: An Empirical Evidence from Pakistan ]]>
<![CDATA[Syed Aziz Rasool]]>;
<![CDATA[Abdul Saboor]]>;
<![CDATA[Muhammad Raashid]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) Vol 3, No 2: June 2014 ]]>
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DOI: 10.11591/ijphs.v3i2.4684
<![CDATA[ABSTRACT There has been increasing focus on efficiency measurement in health sector around the world. This empirical study aims at measuring efficiency level of non-profit private organization by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in the health sector of Pakistan. DEA is non-parametric linear programming based approach for homogeneous decision making units. Layton Rehmatullah Benevolent Trust (non-profit private organization) will be subject matter for investigational analysis constituting over 16 sub-units spreading across the country. Secondary data of number of patient beds, specialists and nurses in all the 16 branches of LRBT hospitals will be used applying quantitative specification tool, both scale and technical efficiency levels in an environment where multiple of inputs and outputs are in place, will be used for final evaluation. The outcomes so expected will help policy makers to formulate effective plans and programs in order to enhance the efficiency of health measures conducted by non- profit private organizations. ]]>
<![CDATA[The Determinants and Subsequent Effect of Self-Rated Health Status on Survival among Elderly Americans ]]>
<![CDATA[Guangming Han]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) Vol 3, No 2: June 2014 ]]>
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DOI: 10.11591/ijphs.v3i2.4677
<![CDATA[The main aim of this study is to explore the patterns, determinants and subsequent mortality prediction of change in self-rated health in the elderly American population. To achieve this purpose, we constructed logistic regression models and Cox proportional hazard regression models with the complex survey dataset from the National Second Longitudinal Study of Aging (LSOA II) to calculate the odds ratios (OR)/ hazard ratios (HR) and confidence intervals (CI) of risk factors. Our results show that chronic disease condition and difficulty in daily activities are the main reasons for change in self-rated health status. Furthermore, change in self-rated health has significant impact on survival function in the elderly populations. When change in self-rated health status was considered, self-rated health was a stronger and more flexible predictor of mortality for elderly populations. These findings will provide important information to establish effective strategies for prolonging lifespan by improving self-rated health status for elderly populations.]]>
<![CDATA[The Case for Microcredit: Does It Improve Maternal and Child Health and Wellbeing? ]]>
<![CDATA[Madhurima Sarkar]]>;
<![CDATA[Muhiuddin Haider]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) Vol 3, No 2: June 2014 ]]>
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DOI: 10.11591/ijphs.v3i2.4682
<![CDATA[It is possible to achieve the above development goals, if disposable income, especially of the poor, is increased. A joint research project in Bangladesh was initiated by BRAC and ICDDR,B to evaluate the extent to which socioeconomic development engineered through microcredit might enhance maternal and child health programs and to determine the impact of rural community development programs on community well-being. We conducted a systematic review on BRAC-ICDDR,B Joint Research Project Working Paper Series. The series contained 32 working papers out of which we only selected papers that examined or had references to maternal and child health (n=13). We developed a checklist based on the Transparent Report of Evaluations with Nonrandomized Designs (TREND) criteria. The BRAC papers show promising positive linkages between implementation of microcredit programs in rural areas and (1) increase in income, (2) increase in health status and (3) improvement in women’s health. The assumption that increasing women’s empowerment through income and education leads to improvements health and survival is referred a number of times in the BRAC studies, however, this assumption has not been tested in well controlled intervention studies and further independent research needs to be conducted in order to test the hypotheses set out by the BRAC papers. The data from BRAC is a unique opportunity to examine pre and post intervention of the impact of microcredit and such data sets can provides researchers with the prospect of conducting continuous rigorous research in the country.]]>
<![CDATA[Prooxidative Role of Hyperinsulinemia in Metabolic Sydrome Formation ]]>
<![CDATA[Nelli Uzbekova]]>;
<![CDATA[Dilorom Abdullaevna Musakhodjaeva]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) Vol 3, No 2: June 2014 ]]>
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DOI: 10.11591/ijphs.v3i2.4676
<![CDATA[The pattern of hyperinsulinemia was studied in patients with metabolic syndrome. The levels of basal insulinemia (BI), malondialdehyde (MDA) and catalaze (CA) as an index of oxidative stress and some metabolic parameters have been studied in men and women with metabolic syndrome. Basal insulinemia correlated significantly with malondialdehyde levels both in men and women. Close relationship was also found between basal insulinemia and waist circumference.]]>
<![CDATA[Sleep Habits and Occurrence of Lowback Pain among Craftsmen ]]>
<![CDATA[Gabriel Omoniyi Ayeni]]>;
<![CDATA[Oladire Olaniyi]]>;
<![CDATA[Oluwasegun A Ayeni]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) Vol 3, No 2: June 2014 ]]>
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DOI: 10.11591/ijphs.v3i2.4681
<![CDATA[Low back pain (LBP) is a leading cause of disability with high economic and public health consequences. The study objective is to determine the association between sleeping habits and occurrence of lowback pain among craftsmen in Owerri. From April to May, 2012, a cross-sectional survey of randomly selected 500 craft workers was done. Data on sociodemographic characteristics and selected lifestyle were collected using an interviewer semi-structured questionnaire. Data analysis was done using descriptive, inferential statistics of chi square and multiple regressions. The findings of multiple regression analyses showed respondents who sleep on soft/saggy surface were almost 5 times more likely to develop LBP independently compared to those with relatively firm/hard surface (OR = 4.56; CI = 2.62 - 7.94; p = 0.001). Craftsmenwith unsteady sleeping posture were twice likely to develop LBP (OR=2.10, CI = 1.04 - 4.25, p<0.001). Longitudinal study is warranted to further explore the relationship between sleep habits and lowback pain.]]>
<![CDATA[Fish Marketing Status with Formalin Treatment in Bangladesh ]]>
<![CDATA[Shatabdi Goon]]>;
<![CDATA[Munmun Bipasha]]>;
<![CDATA[Md. Saiful Islam]]>;
<![CDATA[Md. Bellal Hossain]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) Vol 3, No 2: June 2014 ]]>
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DOI: 10.11591/ijphs.v3i2.4680
<![CDATA[Fish possess an extremely strong cultural attachment considering irreplaceable animal food source in Bangladeshi diet beset with nutritional importance. It has been getting endangered by abominable practice of formalin in marketing leaded by some deceitful traders counting profit beyond ethical attainment and endangering public health. This paper outlines the formalin extremity with a several years practice in fish marketing involving almost 5% city markets with a petty heterogeneity comprising contrastive and potential strategy with formalin access. Regardless, this formalin corruption affiliated with deleterious health aggravations both for traders and consumers, comes out with impotency in workforce contravening economical influence on overall national prosperity.]]>
<![CDATA[ICDS Scheme to the Growth Development in Preschoolers: A Systematic Review of Literature ]]>
<![CDATA[Jemy Elizabeth Joseph]]>
<![CDATA[ International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) Vol 3, No 2: June 2014 ]]>
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DOI: 10.11591/ijphs.v3i2.4679
<![CDATA[The health scenario in our country is rapidly changing, both in terms of the public health challenges that we face as well as our response to these challenges. As India becomes more and more developed and we have greater means at our disposal, our response to our health challenges must reflect our changing health and socio-economic status. India faces enormous challenges in the area of women’s and children’s health. These findings point to the importance of investing in various growth factors and sanitation, and educating the public about hygiene to promote health knowledge and better child outcomes. As importantly, such investments have the potential of making the feeding program more effective. ICDS therefore takes holistic view of the development of the child and attempts to improve both his/her prenatal and postnatal environment. Accordingly, besides children in their formative years (0-6 years), women between 15 to 45 years are also covered by the programme as these are child bearing years in the life of a women and her nutrition and health status has a bearing on the development of the child.]]>
