BACKGROUND: Peru has made great improvements in reducing stunting and child mortality in the past decade, and has reached the Millennium Development Goals 1 and 4. The remaining challenges or missed opportunities for child ...

This article seeks to correlate the different social meanings attributed to children with health actions directed toward this group starting in nineteenth-century Brazil. The study reviews the literature based on the social ...

© Copyright The Authors 2017. Objective Front-of-package (FOP) marketing strategies of a wide variety of beverages were catalogued to examine the prevalence of each strategy prior to a sweeping Chilean restriction of ...

Abstract: When and how the dentist intervenes have repercussions on children's physical and emotional patterns. The objective of the present study was to conduct a longitudinal behavioral analysis during dental care of ...

This study relates adolescent mothers' psychosocial health to the development of their child and to the mother-child relationship, in a sample of 99 mothers. The results show that 39.4% of mothers presented risk for mental ...

This study relates adolescent mothers' psychosocial health to the development of their child and to the mother-child relationship, in a sample of 99 mothers. The results show that 39.4% of mothers presented risk for mental ...

The article rethinks the relationship between human trafficking as organised crime and child recruitment as a war crime. After analysing the records of 132 cases of child and adolescent recruitment brought before Colombia’s ...

This paper examines the effects of birth order on intra-household allocations as evidenced by the child labor incidence and school attendance of Brazilian children. Previous studies have found that earlier born children ...

Parental decisions have a profound effect on a child’s human capital development. Given the family’s endowment, the way parents decide how to allocate household resources has a direct impact on the child’s health ...