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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"child health care"”.
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Nonsynostotic plagiocephaly: Prevention strategies in child health care
… education including guidelines was developed for child health nurses, and a clinical intervention and three supporting studies were planned. Nurses were recruited and allocated to two groups. Intervention group nurses were educated about nonsynostotic plagiocephaly while control group nurses were …
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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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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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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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Acceptability of access to child health care, in the rural area around Zithulele Hospital in the Eastern Cape
… inter-views, in order to assess the access to child health care provided at Zithulele Hospital. The focus will be on the acceptability of access to child health care and more specifically, the acceptability of treatment for diarrhoeal disease.
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Parental support in a changing society
… Swedish society there is increasing emphasis on health-promotive work among children, adolescents, and their parents. Knowledge is needed about why certain activities work better than others. It is important to study the parents' motives and experiences of participating in parental supporting …
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A therapeutic landscape created by the children's Comprehensive Health Investment Project of the Roanoke Valley
… United States, political and social attention to child health care remains insufficient, as it has for decades, especially that which serves the needs of low-income families. In response to this widespread negligence, many communities around the country have developed innovative programs to meet …
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Exploring the Relationship between Family Social Capital and Utilization of Well Child Preventative Health Care Services
… Passage of the Affordable Health Care Act of 2010 increased insurance coverage for children, however possession of health care insurance doesn’t always equate to effective use of health care services. Misuse and underutilization of health care homes is associated with higher …
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Empirical essays on health care for children and families
… essays investigating different aspects of health care for children and families. The first essay examines the effectiveness of adherence to American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for preventive pediatric health care. Using a national longitudinal sample of children age two years and …
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Paediatric Palliative Care - describing patient needs and the experiences of caregivers and health care workers in a Cape Town Paediatric Intermediate Care Facility
Aim: The study describes the population (and care needs) of children admitted to the facility, the experiences of their primary caregivers and the health care workers caring for them. Methodology: This was a descriptive study that utilised elements of both prospective and crosssectional design. The …
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Paediatric Palliative Care - describing patient needs and the experiences of caregivers and health care workers in a Cape Town Paediatric Intermediate Care Facility
Introduction: Palliative care has the potential to improve the quality of life for children living with LL or LTC's and their families. However, in the South African context, little is known about the specific care needs of these children and the experiences of caregivers and health care workers …
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Use of Medications and Pharmacists’ Role in Improving the Quality of Life in Children with Bronchial Asthma // Лекарствена употреба и роля на фармацевтите за подобряване качеството на живот при деца с бронхиална астма
… contribution in providing comprehensive patient care. The global burden of asthma can be significantly reduced through the collaborative efforts of patients, health care professionals, health care institutions and governments. Various studies establish pharmacists’ important role in providing …
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Family Centre Practice and Modernity A Qualitative Study from Sweden
… have become a common institution to promote health and wellbeing among young children (0-6 years of age) and their parents in Sweden. The core of the work is usually based on both maternal and child health care, a preschool and social services, all located under the same roof in the local …
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A systematic review of digital health tools used for decision support by frontline health workers (FLHWs) in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs)
… few trained physicians and nurses, community health workers (CHWs) are often the only providers of healthcare to millions of people. Such LMIC are countries that are classified, based on their geographic region and Gross National Income (GNI), as low-middle income by the World Bank Group, the …
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Depression and Non-Responsive Behavior Displayed By Low Socio-Economic Latino Mothers in an Urban Child and Youth Clinic
<p>During the researcher's experience as a public health nurse, she became aware of two types of depressed women. The first type is the withdrawn, weeping, self-isolating woman while the second type cited numerous physical complaints which prevented her from caring for her home and children. Both …
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A cross cultural study of motor development in the Western Cape
… 741 white infants drawn proportionally from the Child Health Care Clinics in the northern areas of greater Cape Town. Babies were sampled in specified age-intervals between the ages of 16 and 1170 days. Variables studied were sex, birth-ranking, weight-percentile at the time of testing, marital …
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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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'Following the Line': An ethnographic study of the influence of routine baby weighing on breastfeeding women in a town in the Northwest of England
… is an integral part of routine community child health care in the United Kingdom. An intensive focus on fluctuations in charted weight of young babies has been charged by some breastfeeding advocates with undermining continued breastfeeding. Concern has also been expressed by clinicians …
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Epidemiological studies of sociodemographic factors, early life factors, health, and medical care consumption among small children
By international standards, children in Sweden experience good health. Sweden has low infant mortality rates, low accident mortality rates, a high number of breastfed children and a high proportion of vaccinated children. However, during the past twenty years the prevalence of overweight children …
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Depression and distress in Swedish fathers in the postnatal period - prevalence, correlates, identification, and support
… identified and supported by nurses in Swedish child health care (CHC), and to learn more about postnatal depression in fathers and how it can be identified. Studies I and II were based on a questionnaire sent to a random sample of 499 child health nurses in Sweden. Study I investigated how …
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