Child Health Matters

Improving Child and Maternal Health: Why Adolescent Girl Programming Matters

Maternal Employment and Child Obesity: When Child Care Matters

A substantial body of literature suggests that maternal employment stimulates child obesity. This study re-examines the existing relations and explores the role of alternative care on health status of working women’s children using Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC). Categorizing child care as relative, non-family, and kindergarten care, I investigate how each type of child care generates di...

Every child matters: change for children.

Statutory guidance to the UK Border Agency on making arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children It is the duty of Government and of society as a whole to keep children safe. Public agencies have a particular responsibility to do this, both within their own area of business and in the way in which they work together. Section 11 of the Children Act 2004 places a duty on specifi...

Public Health Matters

Zoning, the most prevalent land use planning tool in the United States, has substantial equity and public health implications. Zoning determines where various categories of land use may go, thereby influencing the location of resulting environmental and health impacts. Industrially zoned areas permit noxious land uses and typically carry higher environmental burdens than other areas. Using NewY...

1990 Public Health Matters

The managerial revolution in the health services of the Thatcher years included the field of public health: thus from 19891 the DHSS (NI) required each Area Board to designate a consultant in Public Health Medicine as the Board 'Director of Public Health' to oversee 'not only efforts to preserve health ... but also the provision of effective and efficient services to restore the sick to health ...