This Special Issue was compiled to advance an interdisciplinary understanding of the complexity of conceptualizations, determinants, consequences, and measurement of child well-being of children and adolescents fully devoted ...

Objective. To assess factors determining growth in a group of children between 3 months and 6 years old enrolled in a public municipal (i.e., government-supported, not private) day-care center, in comparison to a group of ...

Objective. To assess factors determining growth in a group of children between 3 months and 6 years old enrolled in a public municipal (i.e., government-supported, not private) day-care center, in comparison to a group of ...

Objective: To review scientific literature in order to check how infant development surveillance is being carried out in Brazil. Data sources: Search on databases (PubMed, Medline, SciELO and CAPES Database Thesis) for ...

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 present work has as its theme the exploitation of child labor in our country, highlighting domestic child labor, which is that developed inside homes. The objective of the work is to show the exploitation of child ...

Breast-fed infants can thrive even under unhygienic conditions in areas of extreme poverty. The anti-infectious properties of human milk account for the very high resistance of the nursing infant to infection in general ...