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MARYALICE YAKUTCHIK
JOHN HOPKINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, FALL 2015 MAGAZINE (BALTIMORE, USA)

"In her dream, she fastens a band around a baby’s ankle as his mother stands watching. Noor Sabah Rakhshani wakes. For months, she has been living and breathing her doctoral thesis. Even in her sleep, data from the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey swirls around her. While commuting to the Bloomberg School, and while preparing meals for her husband Imran and their daughters Lailée and Nida, Noor ponders the variables that influence the use of health services in her homeland. Only 40 percent of children in Pakistan complete their vaccinations. As a result, preventable diseases like pneumonia, meningitis, whooping cough and measles claim more than 100,000 lives there each year. Yet intriguing factors keep surfacing for Noor: Among children who never received a standard paper card with their immunization history, only half completed the DTP3 vaccine’s 3-shot regimen. However, among children who received all the recommended vaccinations, 90 percent had a paper immunization card..."

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MARYALICE YAKUTCHIK
JOHN HOPKINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, FALL 2015 MAGAZINE (BALTIMORE, USA)

"In her dream, she fastens a band around a baby’s ankle as his mother stands watching. Noor Sabah Rakhshani wakes. For months, she has been living and breathing her doctoral thesis. Even in her sleep, data from the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey swirls around her. While commuting to the Bloomberg School, and while preparing meals for her husband Imran and their daughters Lailée and Nida, Noor ponders the variables that influence the use of health services in her homeland. 
URL to article: http://magazine.jhsph.edu/2015/fall/features/the-dream/index.html