Evaluating a Sick Child after Travel to Developing Countries

Evaluating a sick child after travel to developing countries.

Every year, millions of children travel internationally with their families, many to developing countries. Although the vast majority experience uneventful travel and return home well, it is not uncommon for children to present as ill during or after travel. Although the majority of travel-associated illness is mild and self-limited, serious conditions regularly occur. Almost all life-threateni...

Focused Journals in Travel Medicine; A Valuable Chance for Developing Countries!

Child development in developing countries 2 Child development: risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries

Poverty and associated health, nutrition, and social factors prevent at least 200 million children in developing countries from attaining their developmental potential. We review the evidence linking compromised development with modifi able biological and psychosocial risks encountered by children from birth to 5 years of age. We identify four key risk factors where the need for intervention is...

New vaccines to boost child care in developing countries.

News New vaccines to boost child care in developing countries Two rotavirus vaccines recently entered the market but to make a difference where they are most needed they must show efficacy and become affordable in developing countries. By the age of three years, most children in the world have been infected with rotavirus. In the developed world, many cases need nothing more than attentive trea...

Pulse oximetry: technology to reduce child mortality in developing countries.

The causes of hypoxaemia in children include the commonest causes of childhood illness: pneumonia and other acute respiratory infections, and neonatal illness, particularly sepsis, low birthweight, birth asphyxia and aspiration syndromes. The systematic use of pulse oximetry to monitor and treat children in resource-poor developing countries, when coupled with a reliable oxygen supply, improves...