background: nutrition in childhood has a significant role in current and adulthood health. recent studies have shown that the mother’s life-style has an important role in the methods used by mother to feed child, child’s diet and body mass index (bmi). this study paper aimed to investigate the association between mother’s weight efficacy life-style (wel) with feeding practices and diet in child...

Marin County Department of Health and Human Services is currently developing a Quality Assurance/Improvement system for Child Welfare Services. To inform the design of this system, this study reviewed systems in place in Solano County Health and Social Services and Napa County Health and Human Services. Specifically, the following questions were addressed to each county: • What is the structure...

The authors assessed the effectiveness of a home visitation program in enhancing the early parenting history of infants born at medical risk—a population that is at risk for mistreatment. A randomized clinical trial design was used to compare the effects of a cognitively based extension of the Healthy Start home visitation program (HV ) with a visitation condition that did not include this comp...

Drawing on a large household survey in rural Central Java, Indonesia, we address the functional distinction between formal education and nutrition knowledge. Applying parametric and nonparametric techniques to household data from rural Indonesia the study finds that: 1) Mothers’ nutrition knowledge has a strong, positive impact on child nutrition in the short-term (weight-forheight), controllin...

In many developing countries, high levels of child undernutrition persist alongside rapid economic growth. There is considerable interest in the study of countries that have made rapid progress in child nutrition to uncover the driving forces behind these improvements. Cambodia is often cited as a success case having reduced the incidence of child stunting from 51% to 34% over the period 2000 t...

a Child Protection Team, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia b Department of Emergency Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia c Department of Pediatrics, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia d Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia e Psychiatry Department, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Ar...

The maltreatment of Maori children in Aotearoa is a matter of grave concern. This report is based on the findings of a literature review which sought to gather together information covering the broad range of factors associated with, and contributing to, Maori child maltreatment. It includes prevalence data, information on inequalities for Maori, and addresses issues associated with making comp...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a deficiency state of both macro and micronutrients (under--nutrition) and their over consumption (over- nutrition) causing measurable adverse effects on human body structure and function, resulting in specific physical and clinical outcomes. Little has been known about the seasonal variation in the magnitude of acute child under-nutrition and its determinants in low ...

BACKGROUND The persistence of rural-urban disparities in child nutrition outcomes in developing countries alongside rapid urbanisation and increasing incidence of child malnutrition in urban areas raises an important health policy question - whether fundamentally different nutrition policies and interventions are required in rural and urban areas. Addressing this question requires an enhanced u...