RANDOMISED TRIALS IN CHILD HEALTH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES pot

... step in the analysis is to examine nativity differences in maternal health inputs before birth, at birth, and into early childhood. In analyses of breastfeeding, prenatal smoking, prenatal drinking ... levels of prenatal smoking and smoking around their children; and slightly higher levels of drinking during children’s early lifetimes. In both countries, it is worth pointing ou...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... Promotion Health / Medical Call Centres Training and Support for Healthcare Workers • Tracking of medical goods in supply chains using mobile recording • Advocacy informed by supply chain information • ... part due to ongoing training and interaction with them 11 . 5 Global Health Workforce Alliance. Scaling Up, Saving Lives: Task Force for Scaling Up Education and Training for He...

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... objectives include increasing First Nations training opportunities for MCH service providers, increasing participation of on-reserve community members in planning and developing services, increasing ... maternal and child health. This program in the Inuit region of Nunavik (one of four Inuit regions in Canada) brings birthing and midwifery training close to home or directl...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 11:20

... after childhood illness. Treatment includes a low- protein diet. Propionic acidemia (>1 in 75,000). Defect in processing four amino acids leading to ill- ness in newborns, including brain damage, ... Disorders Isovaleric acidemia (<1 in 100,000). Inability to process the amino acid leucine. Can cause coma, brain damage, or death in infancy, or emerge later in childhood...

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... MOH in training government health workers and improving facility services, and in training community members in C-IMCI so that they can support facilities, provide basic treatment within the ... Group model has reported success in Malawi, World Relief faced some initial challenges in introducing it, including difculty 9 Community Approaches to Child Health in Malawi wit...

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... the provincial and district level, MOH staff were involved with the major aspects of the program, including: developing training curriculum; participating in training sessions; approv- ing communication ... Copenhagen: WHO & UNICEF. Zinc Investigators’ Collaborative Group. (2000). Therapeutic effects of oral zinc in acute and persisten diarrhea in children in developing...

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... shock (living in conflict regions) and an idiosyncratic shock (living in victimized households). In line with other studies of child health in sub-Saharan African countries, we did not find any ... al. (2006) document the decline in the state of the health infrastructure during the conflict, complementing our findings on the direct impact the conflict on child health...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... vaccines have been integrated into the public health program of many developing countries including India. Usually, the date and type of vaccination of a child are recorded in a health card that ... combined to form a composite index, often referred to as the wealth index and the PCA is the most frequently used method in deriving the wealth index. The utility of wealth index...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... single vaccination since their birth. So we had to start right from the beginning.” “Since then, we have seen a positive increase in the interest of the mothers in their children’s health. Every ... deciencies in iodine and Vitamin A make goiters and rickets common and dehabilitating conditions in Mongolia’s children. This family in urban Mongolia only eats one meal a day...

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... cannot identify if this is because of increase of bargaining power within the household or because increase in efficiency when combining health promoting inputs. Independently of the channels through ... reduce diarrhea for children in rural India” Journal of Econometrics 112(1), 153-173. Martorell, R. and J. Habicht (1986) “Growth in Early Childhood in Developing Countries i...

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