Public Health Concern with the Sheltered Workshops

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

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Redefining The Purpose of Sheltered Workshops

Listeriosis during Pregnancy: A Public Health Concern

Listeria was first described in 1926 by Murray, Webb, and Swann, who discovered it while investigating an epidemic infection among laboratory rabbits and guinea pigs. The role of Listeria monocytogenes as a foodborne pathogen was definitively recognized during the 1980s. This recognition was the consequence of a number of epidemic human outbreaks due to the consumption of contaminated foods, in...

Child Homicide: A Global Public Health Concern

In this perspective, Delan Devakumar and David Osrin discuss Abrahams and colleagues' findings in the context of evidence about child homicide in different countries, and consider etiology along with implications for child protection and prevention.

Preterm birth: an increasing public health concern

health concern Three million infants die before their first birthday as the result of being born prematurely (Ahman and Zupan, 2007). According to global statistics, the greatest cause of infant mortality in the USA is preterm birth, which is the birth of a child after less than 37 weeks of completed gestation, rather than the typical 40 weeks (Committee on Understanding Premature Birth and Ass...