BACKGROUND Diarrhea is a serious public health problem in Ethiopia. It is responsible for 24-30% of all infant deaths and there is a lack of evidence on the health burdens among the nomadic people. This study was therefore designed to assess the prevalence of diarrhea among children less thanvtwo year's of age and its association with feeding practices among the nomadic people in Hadaleala dist...

Although breast milk is the best food for an infant until age 4-6 months, there has been a recent trend in urban areas to increasingly provide milk-based commercial weaning foods (CWF). This study was conducted to assess the use of CWF among the scheduled caste population in two districts of Haryana State. The data presented are part of a larger study on breast feeding and weaning practices i...

BACKGROUND Seizures are a common presenting feature in children with cerebral malaria (CM) and neurologic deficits have been described in survivors of CM. However few prospective studies have described the frequency of seizure activity and neurologic deficits in survivors of CM over time. METHODS Eighty-two children aged 3 to 12 years who survived an episode of CM were followed up and monitor...

To prepare a field site for evaluating preventive interventions against endemic shigellosis, the authors followed prospectively a cohort of 360 children (90 each of children aged 0-11, 12-23, 24-35, and 36-47 months) in Santa Julia, a low socioeconomic area in Santiago, Chile, from November 1986 through April 1989 with twice weekly household visits for diarrheal disease; infants replaced childr...

introduction: the passive sentence structure is one of the most interesting syntactic structures on language development. studies in some languages have indicated that comprehension of this syntactic structure takes place late in the language acquisition process. therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the comprehension of active and passive structures in 48-59- and 60-71-month-o...

OBJECTIVE To verify the prevalence of anemia among children aged 0 to 36 months, who attend public day care centers in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and assess its possible risk factors. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out in 557 children aged 0 to 36 months of all public day care centers in Porto Alegre. Anthropometric measurements and hemoglobin levels were performed. The portable HemoC...