Maternal Literacy and Child Health in Less-Developed Countries: Evidence, Processes, and Limitations

Maternal literacy and child health in less-developed countries: evidence, processes, and limitations.

Exposures Resulting in Safety and Health Concerns for Child Laborers in Less Developed Countries

Objectives. Worldwide, over 200 million children are involved in child labor, with another 20 million children subjected to forced labor, leading to acute and chronic exposures resulting in safety and health (S&H) risks, plus removal from formal education and play. This review summarized S&H issues in child labor, including forced or indentured domestic labor as other sectors of child labor. Sp...

The Impact of Child Health and Nutrition on Education in Less Developed Countries

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Breastfeeding and maternal and infant health outcomes in developed countries.

OBJECTIVES We reviewed the evidence on the effects of breastfeeding on short- and long-term infant and maternal health outcomes in developed countries. DATA SOURCES We searched MEDLINE(R), CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library in November of 2005. Supplemental searches on selected outcomes were searched through May of 2006. We also identified additional studies in bibliographies of selected review...

An index of maternal and child health in the least developed countries of Asia.

In this article, we propose a new index to measure maternal and child health in the least developed countries (LDCs) of Asia. This new index is applied to a group of countries particularly affected by poverty, which, in the terminology of the United Nations' Conference on Trade and Development, are the poorest of the poor. Our index has been designed by including the variables defined in the Go...