A randomized controlled trial was conducted over a 1-year period (November 2001-November 2002) in Addis Ababa to study the effectiveness of early Kangaroo mother care before stabilization of low birthweight infants as compared with the conventional method of care. There were 259 babies weighing less than 2000 g during the study period and a total of 123 (47.5 per cent) low birthweight infants w...

Globally, prematurity is the first cause of death in children under five. In absolute terms, almost one million babies die because of prematurity each year, mostly in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The risk of death increases with decreasing gestational age and with poverty. It is estimated that neonatal mortality could be reduced by 19% if all neonates could experience similar mortality ra...

Although, for centuries, women of many cultures have carried infants against their breasts, KMC was ‘rediscovered’ in Bogota, Columbia in 1984 by neonatologists Edgar Rey and Hector Martinez 1 . Due to non-availability of incubators, they adopted KMC for preterm and LBW babies who were otherwise stable and needed only to feed and grow. KMC is now successfully applied in many industrialized and ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate differences in the GH responses Kangaroo exercise between normal-weight and obese children both genders. Methods: Children (aged 11.28±0.54 y) were divided into; boys (N=17), (N=13), girls (N=15), (N=9). All participants did exercises with 9 jumps, for a total 7 sets ten repetitions each leg. Before after exercise, measured their serum concentrations. R...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the implementation of the kangaroo mother method in hospitals trained by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. METHOD Cross-sectional study, evaluating 176 (60.1%) out of 293 hospitals that were trained by the Brazilian Ministry of Health from 2000 to 2003 in Brazil. This study was conducted in two phases. The first phase consisted of sending a questionnaire to 293 hospitals...

AARON is a program designed to investigate the cognitive principles underlying visual representation. Under continuous development for fifteen years, it is now able autonomously to make “freehand” drawings of people in garden-like settings. This has required a complex interplay between two bodies of knowledge: objectspecific knowledge of how people are constructed and how they move, together wi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between prone and lateral positioning of preterm infants in Kangaroo Mother Care and early neuromotor development. METHODS Eighty preterm infants born at Instituto Materno-Infantil de Pernambuco, Brazil, admitted to the Kangaroo Mother Care Unit between July and October 2004 were divided into two groups. Forty infants were placed in prone position (PP), ...

Solid-extracellular fluid interaction is believed to play an important role in the strain-rate dependent mechanical behaviors of shoulder articular cartilages. It is believed that the kangaroo shoulder joint is anatomically and biomechanically similar to human shoulder joint and it is easy to get in Australia. Therefore, the kangaroo humeral head cartilage was used as the suitable tissue for th...