This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from 118 countries between 1973 and 2004. Health aid has a beneficial and statistically significant effect on infant mortality: doubling per capita health aid is associated with a 2 percent reduction in the infant mortality rate. For the average country, this implies that increasing per capita health aid by...

This study investigated whether concern about infant obesity has reached parents and the public. Two messages about the health of overweight babies were tested against a no-message control with Asian (n = 195) and American (n = 233) students and adults. The first message dismissed health concern about infant obesity arguing fat babies would slim down as they started to walk. The second message ...

This paper describes background to the development of the relatively new field of infant mental health and why this may be important for Pacific communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ) and elsewhere. There is a discussion of Samoan concepts and research that could inform infant mental health theory and practice. A Pacific home visiting programme based at Taeaomanino Trust in Porirua, Aotearoa/...

SIDS: Sudden infant death syndrome. Unexplained death of an infant under 1 year; SUIDS: Sudden unexplained infant deaths caused by metabolic disorders; Hypothermia; Hyperthermia; Neglect; Homicide or accidental poisoning; Nutritional epidemiology: New field of medical research that studies relations between nutrition and health; Infant mortality: Rate of infant deaths during the first year afte...

Abstract We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional quality governance. Our analysis applies instrumental variable estimation with instrumented by donor government fractionalization interacted probability allocating to a recipient country. Using panel data for 96 countries 2002–2015 period, we find that effectiveness in reducing is good The results are robust variet...

OBJECTIVES Kazakhstan's live-birth definition--that dates from the former Soviet Union (FSU) era--differs from that used by the World Health Organization (WHO). We studied the impacts of both live-birth definitions on the computations of the infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal and child health (MCH) planning in Zhambyl Oblast, Kazakhstan. METHODS We interviewed caregivers and abstracted ...

backgroundthe current study was conducted to investigate the relationship between unwanted pregnancy based on couples’ opinions and infant nutrition type in women referred to the health centers in mashhad city and their husbands.materials and methodsin this analytical-descriptive study, unwanted or wanted progenies were studied from the viewpoints of 366 women referred to the health centers in ...