What next for Childhood Studies?

Childhood Diarrhoea: Failing Conventional Measures, what Next?

BACKGROUND Diarrhoea is one of the leading causes of infant mortality. This article analyzes its contribution towards the realization of millennium development goal number 4 (MDG-4). METHODS A PubMed search using keywords acute infant diarrhea together with prevalence, management, or prevention 23 of the 634 generated articles were reviewed for inclusion. RESULTS WHO first expressed concern...

Systematic Review of Childhood Sedentary Behavior Questionnaires: What do We Know and What is Next?

BACKGROUND Accurate measurement of child sedentary behavior is necessary for monitoring trends, examining health effects, and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions. OBJECTIVES We therefore aimed to summarize studies examining the measurement properties of self-report or proxy-report sedentary behavior questionnaires for children and adolescents under the age of 18 years. Additionally,...

What next for Semantic Blogging?

Semantic Blogging is the use of rich metadata to transform blogs from simple online diaries to full participants in an information sharing ecosystem. Originally the semantic blogging vision centred around informal decentralized knowledge management, but recent developments in social network analysis, microformats, semantic desktop applications and wikis have challenged, enriched and extend...

Travel Diarrhea in Childhood “First Part; what do we know?”

where do we stand and what comes next?