Despite an increasing trend in labour migration and economic dependence on foreign migrant workers in Sri Lanka, very little is known about the child care and nutritional status of "children left behind". The aim of this study was to examine the factors influencing the nutritional status and care practices of children left behind. A sample of 321 children, 6-59 months old of international migra...

AIDs Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ART Antiretroviral Treatment FGDs Focus Group Discussions FGM Female Genital Mutilation GOS The Government of Somaliland HIV Human Immunodefiiciency Virus ILO International Labour Organisation IMSC HIV/AIDS Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee KIIs Key Informant Interviews MOHL Ministry of Health and Labour MTCT Mother to Child Transmission NTC HIV/AIDS ...

Labour is a process extending through successive stages, and implying various movements on the part of the body passing along the genital tract. " Mechanism of Labour " is the term applied to the movements of the whole or of parts of the child during the Second Stage as it passes through the pelvis. These movements have hitherto been studied by two methods: theoretically with a foetal skull and...

Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household This paper presents for the first time the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction of second earner wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in inputs into household production in the form ...

and art of midwifery are so many and so noteworthy, insist with much force upon the danger to the mother when the attendant makes frequent vaginal examinations. Dr. Julius Rosenberg 1 summarises these opinions, and endorses them with great emphasis. He pleads for the management of labour without internal examinations, which should be resorted to only in doubtful cases. He maintains that by abdo...

Rapid HIV test in labour provide an opportunity for the identification of HIV positive pregnant women who should benefit from interventions to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV. Between November 2013 and June 2014 we conducted rapid HIV testing of pregnant women in labour at the National Hospital Abuja to determine the HIV seroconversion rate in pregnancy and the pre...

Fertility and its Consequence on Family Labour Supply While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation ...

with the exception that cases have been excluded in which, in addition to abnormal position, labour was complicated by contracted pelvis, placenta previa, or other major abnormalities. The further reservation should be made that the review comprises only those cases in which diagnosis of posterior position was made or confirmed by vaginal examination during labour. In regard to the frequency of...

Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However, the decisions to be a teenage mother, to quit school, and be less attached to the labour market might all stem from some personal or family characteristics. Using the National Child Development Study (NCDS), we find that in Britain teenage childbearing decreases the probability o...