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Showing 1 to 20 of 857 for “"Child Health"”.
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Children At Risk: Child Health in America
After decades of improvement in child health, new morbidities, altered family structures, and changing social polices are endangering the health of American children. Children's health in the U.S. is in a state of crisis. This thesis is a descriptive study of trends and issues affecting the health …
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Under-utilisation of maternal and child health care
… of first time mothers who are underusers of child care clinics. An attempt is made to counterbalance the tendency of researchers in this area to be judgmental of underusers who "neglect" their children, and their own health care needs, -by reporting the mothers' views of the child health …
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THREE ESSAYS ON CHILD HEALTH AND SKILL FORMATION
… scholarly literature on parental investments in children. In particular, these essays study a number of ways in which children use their time, and the potential influence of such use of time on the development of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in school-age children in the U.S. and in India. …
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The house dust microbiota in the Drakenstein Child Health Study
… its' influence on human respiratory health. Aims: The aims of the studies described in this MSc dissertation were to: 1) evaluate the performance of ten commercial nucleic acid extraction kits on dust samples; 2) optimise dust removal from electrostatic dustfall collectors (EDC); 3) …
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Planning child health care programs: needs, knowledge, evaluation, and policy.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1973. M.C.P.
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Parental Schooling And Child Health: Evidence From Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
… of parental schooling on the physical and mental health of child and the underlying mechanism of the transmission of these beneficial effects. Using the perceived physical and mental health status of child as the outcome variable, the results indicate that the benefits of parental schooling …
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Gestational Diabetes, Depression, and the Impact on Maternal Child Health Outcomes
<p>Antenatal depression occurs in about 20% of all pregnancies and gestational diabetes occurs in up to 14% of all pregnancies. Although there is sufficient information on (1) depression during pregnancy and (2) depression and diabetes, there is little information about depression and gestational …
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Hand-washing and its impact on child health in Kathmandu, Nepal
… has been linked to growth faltering in young children in the developing world. Gut damage occurs along a spectrum, with only the more severe damage resulting in visible symptoms such as diarrhoea; most gut damage in young children is sub-clinical but chronic, and over time it can have a …
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The Relationship of Child Health and Parenting Stress to Child Neurocognitive Development
… the neurocognitive development (NCD) of children falls behind many other developed nations. Levels of parenting stress may be linked to sociodemographic factors such as the high incidence of poverty in children or health disparities in children, which in turn may affect NCD in children. …
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Making Decisions: A three‐year ethnographic study of child health student nurses
… the maturation of decision-making in a cohort of child health students. At strategic stages during their three-year nurse education programme, students gave consent to be formally interviewed about the way they make decisions and observed undertaking simulated practice. This rich data set is …
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Perinatal Policy Disparities and Their Impact on Maternal, Paternal, and Child Health
… policy framework to evaluate their public health significance and impact on family outcomes. Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology, peer-reviewed literature, policy documents, and corporate data from 2015-2025 were reviewed across …
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Implementation of a Migrant Well-Child Health Toolkit for CAWC Healthcare Providers
… this QI project was to implement a Migrant Well-Child Health Toolkit at Casa Alitas Welcome Center (CAWC) that serves as a guideline for volunteer medical professionals in conducting comprehensive well-child examinations on migrant children upon arrival to the migrant shelter in Tucson, …
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Co-designing community-based digital innovations for Maternal and Child Health (MCH)
Digital MCH (Maternal and Child Health) interventions improve access to, and awareness of, maternal and child healthcare. These interventions, however, often fail to receive uptake as the project objectives do not always align with community needs. This is attributable, in part, to the top-down …
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Evaluation of the maternal and child health care program in Chile 1980
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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An evaluation of educational literature distributed by the Child Health Investment Partnership
Educational literature distributed by the Child Health Investment Partnership (CHIP) staff to CHIP parents was identified and evaluated in terms of readability level and availability of information to assist with meeting the identified needs of CHIP parents. One-hundred percent (n=137) of the …
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Threatened child health through lack of immunization: Identification of risk groups in Uganda.
… (EPI), there are still 2 million third world children who die every year from the vaccine-preventable diseases. While the great majority of children in Uganda and other third world countries receive vaccination against tuberculosis (BCG) and the first dose of oral polio vaccine, many do not …
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Malawi's maternal and Child Health policies : analysis, lessons and strategies for addressing gaps
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-237).
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Investigating family social capital and child health: a case study of South Africa
The link between family social capital and child health has not been well investigated in developing countries. This study assessed socioeconomic inequalities in child health and in family social capital in South Africa. It also assessed the relationship between family social capital and child …
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Family-friendly workplace policies in the United States: Associations with maternal and child health
… circumstances regarding employment and childbirth. Unlike all but two other countries worldwide, the U.S. does not guarantee paid leave to employed women who give birth, and the 12 weeks of unpaid leave provided under the Family and Medical Leave Act falls far short of most …
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