In stressing the opportunities for preventive mental health work which the public health services provide, it is noted that these are appreciated by only a comparatively few psychiatrists, although Psychiatric support is needed by the public health worker in integrating the principles of mental hygiene into his activities as well as in dealing with individual mental health problems. The Report ...

INTRODUCTION The prognosis in the case of head injury may be different, Serious head injures are the leading causes of the death. In the remaining cases, the child recovers entirely, or disturbances of the cognitive and motor activities remain. The aim of the work is to show neurological and ophthalmological complications at the child after the fali down from the fifth storey. CASE REPORTS A ...

M. Heys , T. Candler , A. Costello , D.S. Manandhar , R.M. Viner e a Institute for Global Health, University College London, UK b Department of Paediatrics Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust, UK c Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MCA), World Health Organization, Switzerland d Mother and Infant Research Activities (MIRA), Nepal e Institut...

FOR this new edition the work has been substantially rewritten and new subjects discussed include Genetical Aspects of Child Health, Child Guidance, Vocational Guidance, Health Education, Punishment, and Child Health in the Tropics. Many of these, and the other activities discussed in Part II-Social Aspects of Child Health, are now also the concern of a large number of trained lay workers emplo...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between maternal intimate partner violence (IPV) and asthma onset in children and the role of supportive caregiving factors in modifying this relationship. DESIGN Prospective birth cohort. SETTING In-person interview at enrollment as well as in-home interviews during study follow-up. PARTICIPANTS Children (N = 3116) enrolled in the Fragile Families a...

To ensure that researchers and practitioners make valid interpretations from children's self-reports, evidence must demonstrate that the self-report has appropriate psychometric properties. The Child Occupational Self Assessment (COSA) is a self-report of occupational competence and value for everyday activities designed to involve children in identifying goals and assessing outcomes. Five hund...

BACKGROUND Children in northern Uganda have undergone significant psychosocial stress during the region's lengthy conflict. A Psychosocial Structured Activities (PSSA) program was implemented in 21 schools identified as amongst those most severely affected by conflict-induced displacement across Gulu and Amuru Districts. The PSSA intervention comprised a series of 15 class sessions designed to ...

BACKGROUND Participatory health education interventions and/or community-based primary health care in remote regions can improve child survival. The most recent data from Guinea Bissau shows that the country ranks 5th from bottom globally with an under-five mortality rate of 198 per 1000 live births in 2007. EPICS (Enabling Parents to Increase Child Survival) is a cluster randomised trial, whic...

OBJECTIVE To learn how children in rural schools in Nyando District, Kenya clean themselves after defecation. METHODS Six focus group discussions were held with boys and girls ages 12-15 in three rural schools in mid-2009. Parents were interviewed in one setting. In early 2010, a survey of head teachers was conducted in 114 schools in Nyanza Province, Kenya, to assess the provision of anal cl...