good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. for millions of child...

OBJECTIVE The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy is designed to address the five leading causes of childhood mortality, which together account for 70% of the 10 million deaths occurring among children worldwide annually. Although IMCI is associated with improved quality of care, which is a key determinant of better health outcomes, it has not yet been widely adopted, par...

BACKGROUND Child mortality estimates from complete birth histories from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) surveys and similar surveys are a chief source of data used to track Millennium Development Goal 4, which aims for a reduction of under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. Based on the expected sample sizes when the DHS program commenced, the estimates are usually based o...

j Dr. Hilda Lewis and Miss Margaret Kornitzer, both well known for their work /[connection with adoption, have written this leaflet for adolescents who are worried J ?ut the fact of their adoption and their relationship with their own parents. In simple terms it expresses probable anxieties about illegitimacy and the moral .social problems involved. Reliance on the personal value of the child, ...

It is important to distinguish between the portion of faculty time that is spent in direct contact with students in classrooms, laboratories, studios, clinics, etc. and the time spent on instructional activities generally. The distinction is important because activities involving direct contact with students account for only a fraction of the time spent on fulfilling instructional responsibilit...

M aternal and Child health is a global priority. Numerous treaties, initiatives and programmes have been formulated to try and improve the health and well-being of pregnant women and mothers and their children. The latest effort is the Millennium Development Goals that aim to inspire countries to drastically reduce maternal and child mortality and address specific disease and related challenges...

The Lilian Greg Centre was opened in October, 1919, in memory of the late Miss Lilian Greg, a very brilliant teacher, who threw up a great career in order to devote her life and energies to developing to the utmost the life of one mentally deficient child whom she had adopted. In this work Miss Greg was singularly successful, and made the little girl, Marjorie Pasley, a joy, not only to herself...

BACKGROUND To reduce its high maternal and neonatal mortality rate and meet Millennium Development Goals four and five, Lao PDR has adopted a national 'Strategy and Planning Framework of Implementation of Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Services'. This paper reports on implementation constraints identified in three demonstration sites. METHODS The objectives of this paper are to analyse h...

BACKGROUND In 1981 the World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes out of concern that inappropriate marketing of breastmilk substitutes was contributing to the alarming decline in breastfeeding worldwide and the increase in child malnutrition and mortality, particularly in developing countries. OBJECTIVE To document progress, challenges, ...