Child health care nurses' strategies in meeting with parents who are hesitant to child vaccinations

Child Health Days: Vaccinations and Health Care for All

Child health strategies in primary health care.

The topic of this presentation is, of course, very vast, and much discussion has occurred in recent years. For example, it is widely recognized that the extension of basic health services to underserved rural areas and slums is essential everywhere. Secondly, it is apparent that this can only be done by means of primary health care (PHC) workers which, in turn, implies that the government of th...

Child Health Surveillance: nurses perspective.

OBJECTIVE to analyze conceptions of nurses on child health surveillance in family health units. METHOD a qualitative study with thematic analysis of the data, based on the paradigm of Health Surveillance. Interviews were conducted with 13 nurses in a countryside city in the state of Sao Paulo. RESULTS nurses conceived child health surveillance as an active monitoring, which should be compre...

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics benchmarks for nutrition in child care 2011: are child-care providers across contexts meeting recommendations?

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (Academy) recommends feeding practices for child-care providers to establish nutrition habits in early childhood to prevent obesity. With >12 million US children in child care, little is known about child-care providers' feeding practices. The purpose of this study was to examine child-care providers' feeding practices to assess whether providers met the A...

Care-related distress: a nationwide study of parents who lost their child to cancer.

PURPOSE Palliative care is an important part of cancer treatment. However, little is known about how care-related factors affect bereaved intimates in a long-term perspective. We conducted a population-based, nationwide study addressing this issue, focusing on potential care-related stressors in parents losing a child to cancer. METHODS In 2001, we attempted to contact all parents in Sweden w...