The Essential Edmund Leach. Vol. 1: Anthropology and Society; Vol. 2: Culture and Human Nature.

The Essential Edmund Leach. Vol. 1: Anthropology and Society; Vol. 2: Culture and Human Nature. Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw. eds. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2000. 395 pp. and 420 pp.     

The history of the journal social biology: 1954 (Vol. 1) through 1999 (Vol. 46)

Abstract

This paper examines the determinants of place of delivery and childbirth attendant in Kenya based on the 1993 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey data. The analysis utilizes multilevel logistic and multilevel multinomial regression models for the place of delivery and the type of childbirth attendant, respectively. The results show that delivery care in Kenya is determined by a wide range of factors: socioeconomic and cultural factors associated with the individual woman or her household, her demographic status or reproductive behavior relating to a specific birth, as well as availability and accessibility of health services within her community. In addition, a significant variation in delivery care behavior is observed between women and between communities, implying that there are unobserved factors within families and communities that have a significant effect on delivery care. The woman or family effect on delivery care is particularly strong, but varies by distance to the nearest delivery care facility.     

PROGRESS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: Vol. VII

In recent years, concern has been expressed that a positive relationship exists between certain blood dyscrasias and long-term exposure to pesticides. A search and analysis of death records in Kern County and in California as a whole failed to reveal such a relationship.