BACKGROUND Increasing the coverage of key maternal, newborn and child health interventions is essential, if India has to attain Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. This study assesses the coverage gap in maternal and child health services across states in India during 1992-2006 emphasizing the rural-urban disparities. Additionally, association between the coverage gap and under-5 mortality ra...

Background A new cadre of village-based frontline health workers, called Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), was created in India. However, coverage of selected community-based maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) services remains low. Objective This article describes the process of development and formative evaluation of a complex mHealth intervention (ImTeCHO) to increase the cov...

Paediatricians have always played a leading part in ensuring that local child health services are of the best possible quality and are most suited to the needs of the local population. Three important dimensions of the quality of health services are that they should be effective and that they should be delivered efficiently and equitably. 2 These three dimensions apply to the child health servi...

OBJECTIVES Effective coverage (EC) is a measure of health systems' performance that combines need, use and quality indicators. This study aimed to assess the extent to which the Kenyan health system provides effective and equitable maternal and child health services, as a means of tracking the country's progress towards universal health coverage. METHODS AND RESULTS The Demographic Health Sur...

Child health surveillance (CHS) has evolved greatly over the past 30 years from a proactive screening process by health professionals to a more passive approach of child health promotion (CHP), which places the main responsibility for detection of developmental problems on carers. The impetus for this change came from the Hall Report (1989), which reported a lack of evidence for CHS. Although r...

objective: this study aimed to describe the characteristics of iran’s child and adolescent mental health research published from 1973 to 2002. method: the articles were drawn from iranpsych, which is a national database of published research in mental health and related fields. this database gathers scientific papers on psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience published in both national and int...

The Report should put fresh heart into the staff of child guidance c'inics as it is the first official document to set out their principles and ^fpport extensions of their work such as have long been advocated by the N-A.M.H. The need for the basic team of child psychiatrist, educational Psychologist and psychiatric social worker with special training for their lunction, is established and the ...