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Sharing Histories-a transformative learning/teaching method to empower community health workers to support health behavior change of mothers
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: One of the keys to improving health globally is promoting mothers' adoption of healthy home practices for improved nutrition and illness prevention in the first 1000 days of life from conception. Customarily, ...
Breast-feeding: main promoter of infant health
(1978-11)
Unique immunological factors in breast milk arc responsible for the protection
it affords infants against pathogenic agents. This protection is panicularly effective against the
infectious agents which invade or colonize ...
Breast-feeding: main promoter of infant health
(1978-11)
Unique immunological factors in breast milk arc responsible for the protection
it affords infants against pathogenic agents. This protection is panicularly effective against the
infectious agents which invade or colonize ...
Análise da taxa de mortalidade infantil no município de Caçapava do Sul – RS
(Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrasilUFSMCentro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, 2006-07-18)
Infant mortality is an important indicative not only of infant health, it also reflects the health
status and the degree of social economic development of a certain population. The measurement
of the infant deaths, in ...
Systemic and local teething disturbances: Prevalence in a clinic for infants
(2004-01-01)
The aim of this study was to present data as reported by parents on primary tooth eruption and the occurrence of local and systemic manifestations in children ages 0 to 3 years seen at the baby clinic of the Araçatuba ...
Teaching Chilean Mothers to Massage Their Full-Term Infants Effects on Maternal Breast-Feeding and Infant Weight Gain at Age 2 and 4 Months
(LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 2010)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of massage on infant weight gain and exclusive maternal breast-feeding of an intervention that involved teaching mothers to massage their full-term infants. The sample ...
Challenges in the diagnosis and management of neonatal sepsis
(Oxford University Press, 2015)
Neonatal sepsis is the third leading cause of neonatal mortality and a major public health problem, especially in developing countries. Although recent medical advances have improved neonatal care, many challenges remain ...
Comparing Indigenous and public health infant feeding recommendations in Peru: Opportunities for optimizing intercultural health policies
(BioMed Central, 2018-11)
Background: The problem of childhood undernutrition in low-income countries persists despite long-standing efforts by local governmental and international development agencies. In order to address this problem, the Peruvian ...
Costa Rica saves infants’ lives
(1988)
Costa Rica covers an area of about 50 000
square kilometres. Approximately half of its
2.5 million inhabitants live in rural areas.
The economy is based on exports of tropical
products, predominantly coffee and ...