International child health

International Child Health Elective for Pediatric Residents

BACKGROUND There are increasing evidence highlighting the importance of incorporating issues of global health into pre- and post-graduate medical curricula. Medical international cooperation is a fundamental component of strategies to include global health issues in post-graduate medical curricula. METHODS Here we describe a seven-year cooperation between the Non Governmental Organization (NG...

International organizations and the problem of child health, 1945-1960.

Faced with planning mass relief campaigns in liberated Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration relied heavily on cheap supplies of skimmed milk from surplus production in northern Europe. The success of this approach swept aside more detailed planning around restoring national maternal and children's health services. This reli...

International experts laud Canadian child and maternal health plan.

Developing sustainable international partnerships in child health and paediatric care.

One of the UK government's policy initiatives when taking office in 1997 concerned international development. This highlighted an intention to expand partnerships between institutions in the UK and poorer countries; specifically “to work closely with other donors and development agencies to build partnerships with developing countries”.1 The prime policy goal was to eliminate poverty and encour...

An international perspective on child day-care health.

If we are committed to the health and development of children, we need to recognize that the vast majority of the world's women are working women. In Africa, 80% of the women are actively engaged in economic activities outside the home. The "economic miracle" in Southeast Asia was made possible by the nimble fingers of thousands of women working in textile and electronics factories. There is ne...