Caring for and treating a child's health is an important need to achieve optimal health? It concept that reaches beyond mere recovery from illness. It's achieved by balancing the different aspects of child, including physical, psychological, mental, spiritual aspects.A sick child needs therapeutic environments provide medical care in way accelerates process. The environment prefers be positive ...

Transport of critically ill children is associated with increased risk morbidity and mortality in developing countries due to the lack adequate resources skilled personnel. sick child remains a major challenge Nepal as well. The main objective this article describe importance safe transport, be resource guide for health care personnel during inter-facility transport Nepal. This guideline based ...

OBJECTIVES To measure the prevalence of positive substance use screen results among adolescent primary care patients and to estimate the prevalence of substance-related problems and disorders. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING A network of primary care practices in New England. PARTICIPANTS A consecutive sample of 12- to 18-year-old patients (N = 2133), with a study participation rat...

This study assessed the effects of scaling-up Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) on the quality of care received by sick children in 10 districts in Uganda. Health workers trained in IMCI were found to deliver significantly better care than health workers who had not yet been trained, but absolute levels of service quality remained low. Achieving training coverage alone is not su...

From the Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto (Z.A.B.); the Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan (Z.A.B.); and the Institute for International Programs, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (R.E.B.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Bhutta at the Centre for Global Child H...

care for mothers and newborns from seven countries: implications for universal health coverage Joy E Lawn,* Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Steve N Wall, Stefan Peterson and Emmanuelle Daviaud Maternal Adolescent & Reproductive Health (MARCH) Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, Centre fo...

hospitalization of child is one of the most stressful events of life for parents and children. this fear and stress may affect the process of treatment. since there is no information available about the source of distress and needs of iranian parents during the inpatient care of their children, we designed a research in order to discover the main source of worries and fears among parents. in th...

The admission of children to hospital for minor medical problems is frequently influenced by family and social circumstances. This study compared the infant care practices of families of children admitted to hospital for gastroenteritis (n = 76) and families caring for children with gastroenteritis at home (n = 76). Mothers of children who were admitted to hospital were more likely to use medic...