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Effect of oral contraceptives on risk of cervical cancer.
Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand. 2008 Jan;91(1):7?12.
Vanakankovit N | Taneepanichskul S
Abstract: The objective was to assess the risk of oral contraceptives on the occurrence of cervical cancer. A hospital?based case?control study was conducted. Sixty women patients with histologically confirmed invasive cervical cancer and 180 healthy women as the control group who attended the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand were recruited. Information about the use of oral contraceptives and other cervical cancer risk factors were obtained from personal interviews. [More at: http://www.medassocthai.org/journal/files/Vol91_No.1_7_4279.pdf ]
HIV and family planning service integration and voluntary HIV counselling and testing client composition in Ethiopia.
AIDS Care. 2008 Jan;20(1):61?71.
Bradley H | Bedada A | Tsui A | Brahmbhatt H | Gillespie D
Abstract: Integrating voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT) with family planning and other reproductive health services may be one effective strategy for expanding VCT service delivery in resource poor settings. Using 30,257 VCT client records with linked facility characteristics from Ethiopian non?governmental, non?profit, reproductive health clinics, we constructed multi?level logistic regression models to examine associations between HIV and family planning service integration modality and three outcomes: VCT client composition, client?initiated HIV testing and client HIV status. [More at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540120701449112 ]
DSS and DHS: Longitudinal and cross?sectional viewpoints on child and adolescent mortality in Ethiopia.
Population Health Metrics. 2007 Dec 27;5(12):[20] p..
Byass P | Worku A | Emmelin A | Berhane Y
Abstract: In countries where routine vital registration data are scarce, Demographic Surveillance Sites (DSS: locally defined populations under longitudinal surveillance for vital events and other characteristics) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS: periodic national cluster samples responding to cross?sectional surveys) have become standard approaches for gathering at least some data. [More at: http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/pdf/1478-7954-5-12.pdf ]
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