Pneumonia is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Effective vaccine and non-vaccine interventions to prevent and control pneumonia are urgently needed to reduce the global burden of the disease. This paper explores practical strategies and policies for integrating interventions to prevent and treat pneumonia with routine immunization services, and it investigates the challenges...

BACKGROUND Caretakers/parents/caregivers/guardians play important roles in improving Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) of adolescents. Caretaker-adolescent sexual communication suggested to influence young people's sexual behaviours. Despite this significance, the communication is believed to be low in Unguja due to the increase of risky sexual behaviours among adolescents. This study assess...

Photocopy Permission Granted for Internal Distribution © 2005 Child Welfare Institute. There are multiple tragedies when a child dies or is seriously injured due to acts or failure to act by an out-ofhome caretaker, or from others living in the placement, or from physical conditions in the placement. First, a child has died or been seriously injured, a tragedy in its own right. Second, the chil...

The acute illness of 1 family member can then negatively affect all family members and lead to the disruption of family functioning and integrity. During the patient's hospitalization, nurses are in a key position to support family members, maintain family integrity, and ready them for assuming the role of caretaker during the patient's recovery and management of health at home. This article re...

Research studies of laughter in children are reviewed, and a model describing eliciting conditions for laughter and related behavior is described. Following Spencer (1860), Berlyne (I960), and others, it is proposed that laughter occurs after conditions of heightened tension or arousal when at the same time there is a judgment that the situation is safe or inconsequential. The special case of l...

This paper examines how households are coping with the AIDS epidemic and is based on data from four studies of six districts in Uganda between 1992 and 1995. Patient care was found to be principally given by the parents and other relatives. A considerable proportion of spouses cared for the male AIDS patients. Orphans were mainly cared for by relatives, especially grandmothers. Upon the death o...

Though being one of the representative works in the second phase of Pinter’s writing in the 1970s, No Man's Land is more an extension of than a departure from his early comedies of menace. To a certain degree, the central motif of the play is still a variation on the theme of territory fight explored in such plays as The Caretaker. What makes his play unique is that the major conflict is no lon...

The Problem: The research problem is to endow an embodied social creature with a natural protolanguage comparable with that of a child learning her mother tongue. Kismet (see Fig. 2) is a robot for social interaction that has been developed in the lab [2] which lends itself naturally to such a task. Protolanguage is a subset of natural language which develops and extends as the infant grows, bu...

The health status of women is partly attributable to literacy. This paper presents an overview of 106 articles that include discussion of the relative impact of literacy on women's health worldwide. This synthesis reflects ways in which health status of women has been reported across ethnicity, age, formal education, cultural beliefs about health, access to healthcare information and services, ...