Table of Contents

EDITORIAL

Hepatitis A: Increase or decrease?
Joav Merrick

REVIEW ARTICLES

Initiatives of Indian government for persons with disabilities: An overview
Ritu Kalgotra

Child adoption from South Korea: Historical trends and human welfare issues
Daniel Schwekendiek

A comparative history of orphans in North Korea and South Korea
Daniel Schwekendiek

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Impact of fear of mental illness on academic performance: A case study of Sokoto medical students, Nigeria
Kehinde K Kanmodi and Bello Almu

Inquiry into the nutrition transition in the Korean peninsula: Overweight-to-underweight ratios among preschool children in North Korea and South Korea
Daniel Schwekendiek

Do they actually want the vaccine? A survey on awareness and acceptance of hepatitis B vaccination among expectant mothers in Sokoto City, Nigeria
Catherine Fidelis, Kehinde K Kanmodi, and Johnson Olajolumo

The impact of breastfeeding lessons about the differences between human milk and non-human milk on expectant mothers’ decisions to breastfeed
Cecilia S Obeng

Rural medical practitioners in the rural healthcare market: Case study from the Indian Sundarbans
Nilanjan Patra

Unfavorable family background is associated with smoking at youthful age
Miracle A Adesina, Kehinde K Kanmodi, Omotayo F Fagbule, and Tolulope Ogunmuko

Epidemiology of abnormal cholesterol among children and adolescents in the United States
Kimberly YZ Forrest and Marcy J Leeds

Substance addiction and criminality among street children in Ethiopia: An econometric analysis
HabtamuWandimu Alem and Arindam Laha

The relationship between bilingualism and cognitive development among Saudi Arabian school-aged children
Salman Elbedour, Manal Ahmad Sawan, Joseph A Bawalsah, Anan Abu Mariam, Hussien Tarawneh, and Gregory Reed

The impacts of a UNICEF health promotion project on primary health care in Western China: A comprehensive evaluation at provincial level
Yuxue Bi, Dejian Lai, and Hong Yan