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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Child healthcare"”.
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Middle Eastern voluntary immigrant parents' experiences of child healthcare services in Northern Ireland: a qualitative study
… of voluntary immigrant parents’ experiences of child healthcare services in Northern Ireland.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Aim of the Study</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">The aim of the study is to explore the experiences of immigrant parents in relation totheir engagement with child healthcare …
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Moralizing Substance Use In Maternal-Child Symbiosis: An Emergent Fit Dimensional Analysis
Delivering quality maternal-child healthcare is compromised when clinicians moralize pregnant or lactating persons’ actions. Clinicians are professionally charged with ensuring quality care delivery. However, they commonly moralize substance use and other similarly stigmatized actions during …
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Infant wellbeing and monitoring: An observation of the Road to Health Booklet in Masiphumelele
… tracks the health of newborns and the growth of children. The Department of Health (DoH) does this monitoring using the Road to Health Booklet (RtHB). In this dissertation I analyse the use of the booklet in the township of Masiphumelele in Cape Town. The state produced booklet is intended for …
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Why, how and when do children die in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in South Africa?
Objectives: To describe the characteristics of children who died and their modes of dying in a South African Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Design: Retrospective review of data extracted from the Child Healthcare Problem Identification Programme (Child PIP)and the PICU summary system …
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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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Autism spectrum disorders - first indicators and school age outcome
… stability and outcome at mid-school age in children referred early in life for a suspected autism spectrum disorder (asd) have been few. Aims: To examine early indicators of asd and eight-year stability of asd diagnoses, comorbidity, cognitive levels and overall clinical profiles, in …
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Characteristics of and factors associated with infectious disease hospital admissions in children by HIV-exposure status in an era of high coverage of prevention of vertical HIV transmission in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
In South Africa, an estimated 22% of children under age 15 years are exposed to HIV and uninfected (HEU). Since the implementation of lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all pregnant women living with HIV in 2013 (Option B+) and all individuals living with HIV in 2016 (Universal ART), the …
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Febrile Seizures and associated neurodevelopmental disorder
… Febrile seizures (FS) are common in young children. There is a lack of knowledge about possible associations between FS and the child’s cognitive and behavioural development. Aim: Gain further insight into the area of coexisting neurodevelopmental problems in children with FS. Methods: …
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Sharing & Caring. Division of parental leave from a psychological perspective
… For Studies II-IV, 280 parents recruited from 25 child healthcare centres in Region Västra Götaland answered a questionnaire at six and 18 months after their child was born. Study II showed that fathers who shared parental leave equally were less likely to perceive parenting stress 18 months after …
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Perceptions of healthcare providers regarding ethical guidelines on social media in a children's ward in Malawi
Introduction - Children are considered a vulnerable population with the right to a safe environment and protection from harm. They also have the right to privacy and protection against exposure on social media, especially when they are hospitalised. Nurses and other healthcare providers need to …
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Neonatal Mortality in the Cape Town Metro West Geographical Service Area 2014-2017
… Problem Identification Programme (PPIP), Child Healthcare Problem Identification Programme (Child PIP) and Forensic Pathology Services (ii) to ascertain the cause of death specific neonatal mortality (iii) to describe the avoidable factors in each death as coded by the three audit …
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Cultural beliefs influencing cervical cancer screening among women in a community healthcare centre
… cancer screening among women in a community healthcare centre. 1.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Globally cervical cancer was found to be the fourth most common cancer among women in 2012. There were an estimated 528,000 new cases and approximately 266,000 female deaths of cervical cancer in …
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Management péče o chronicky nemocné děti na školách ve vybrané městské části Prahy
… on the management of care for chronically ill children within the context of primary schools in the Czech Republic. Since 2022, legislation has allowed the provision of healthcare services directly in schools, transforming the school into a specific social environment for the patient. The aim …
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Play in Hospital - Through the Looking-Glass: Exploring Children and Young People’s Perspectives regarding their Interactions with Health Play Professionals
Background: Children and young people are confronted and challenged, on many levels, by illness and hospitalisation. Child-focused anthropologists have described how children utilise play and imagination as tools to cope and make meaning of their illness experiences. Over time, research on the …