Download or read book Maternal and Child Health written by John Ehiri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-03 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our current era of globalization, war, and socioeconomic unrest has revealed public health as a worldwide concern and a major frontier for social justice with maternal and child health at its epicenter. Yet, there has been a relative scarcity of training resources specifically dedicated to this crucial area. "Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies" addresses this gap in current knowledge by analyzing the range of socioeconomic and environmental factors, health care disparities, politics, policies, and cultural practices that impact the health and safety of mothers, as well as the well-being and optimum development of their children. Individual sections focus on unequal distribution of the world’s resources, politics and power, specific disease concerns, programs, policies and emerging concerns with a focus on what is currently being done, and what needs to be done to improve the health status of women, children, and adolescents. The book’s contributors are some of the world’s most respected experts, carefully selected to represent different global geographic regions and diverse professional disciplines related to maternal and child health from both academic and field practice perspectives. Among the topics in this authoritative volume: The impact of war, globalization, gender inequity, and harmful traditional practices (e.g., female genital mutilation). Specific health concerns, including tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, and malnutrition. Child and adolescent health issues, from abuse and neglect to children in difficult circumstances. Pregnancy-related issues: safety, abortion and post-abortion care, teen pregnancy, and more. Strategies for planning, developing, and maintaining maternal and child health systems in developing countries. The status of global initiatives, such as Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses and the Millennium Development Goals. The status of evidence-based maternal and child health in the developing world. With such a wealth of information on both practical and conceptual levels, "Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies" is as relevant to students and researchers in the field as it is to policy makers and those working for global health and development organizations. It also makes an excellent stand-alone text for courses in global health in general and global maternal and child health in particular.

Download or read book Maternal and Child Health Care Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maternal and Child Health Care Act 1976 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maternal and Child health Services Under the Social Security Act Title V Part 1 written by United States. Children's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maternal and Child Health Care Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Understanding Title V of the Social Security Act written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maternal Child Health Service Programs written by United States. Maternal and Child Health Service and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Maternal and Child Health Service Reports On Promoting the Health of Mothers and Children written by United States. Maternal and Child Health Service and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maternal and Child Health Care Act 1977 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The National Children s Study Research Plan written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-08-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Children's Study (NCS) is planned to be the largest long-term study of environmental and genetic effects on children's health ever conducted in the United States. It proposes to examine the effects of environmental influences on the health and development of approximately 100,000 children across the United States, following them from before birth until age 21. By archiving all of the data collected, the NCS is intended to provide a valuable resource for analyses conducted many years into the future. This book evaluates the research plan for the NCS, by assessing the scientific rigor of the study and the extent to which it is being carried out with methods, measures, and collection of data and specimens to maximize the scientific yield of the study. The book concludes that if the NCS is conducted as proposed, the database derived from the study should be valuable for investigating hypotheses described in the research plan as well as additional hypotheses that will evolve. Nevertheless, there are important weaknesses and shortcomings in the research plan that diminish the study's expected value below what it might be.

Download or read book Better Health for Our Children written by United States. Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: A 1981 expert report to the US Congress and the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services of a major study to develop strategies for improved child health is presented in 4 volumes. Volume 1 summarizes the major findings and recommendations; Volume 2 outlines the analysis and recommendations for selected federal programs (Title V of the Social Security Act; Medicare and EPSDT; WIC program; the Handicapped Children Education Act; community health pr ograms; and major federal maternal and child health programs); Volume 3 presents a statistical profile of the most compr ehensive compilation of data on child health in the US to date; Volume 4, Part 1 comprises a set of commissioned papers prepared for working groups of the Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health concerning health care and health poli cy toward childrenand pregnant women; and Volume 4, Part 2 presents a detailed comprehensive description regarding the f inancing and organization of federal health care services. The recommendations of the overall report reflect a realistic analysis of serious unmet needs in child and maternal health, a recognition of past sucesses and future challenges for meeting these needs, a detailed consideration of the weaknesses and strengths of current federal programs and policies, and a pragmatic assessment of the capacity of the US to provide parents and health care professionals the scientific, fi nancial, and organizational support required to improve child health. The total report covers 1839 pages.

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Download or read book Maternal and Child Health Programs written by United States. Health Services Administration. Office for Maternal and Child Health and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maternal and Child Health Care Act 1976 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Publications of the Maternal and Child Health Service written by United States. Maternal and Child Health Service and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maternal and Child Health Services Under the Social Security Act Title V Part 1 written by United States Children'S Bureau and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Maternal and Child-Health Services Under the Social Security Act, Title V, Part 1: Development of Program, 1936-39 Madam: There is transmitted herewith Publication No. 259, Maternal and Child - Health Services Under the Social Security Act: development of program, 1936 - 39. This bulletin covers the first 4 years of Federal and State cooperation under title V, part 1, of the Social Security Act, providing for grants to the States for maternal and child - health services. During this period maternal mortality in the United States was reduced by almost one-third and infant mortality by one - sixth. The encouraging progress that has been made gives assurance that with the expanded resources recommended by the Children's Bureau Advisory Committee on Maternal and Child Health Services and by other bodies it will be possible to provide really adequate care for mothers and children through out the Nation. The fact that physical examination of registrants under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 resulted in the rejection of almost half of our young men as physically or mentally unfit for general military service emphasizes the importance of an adequate maternal and child - health program as an essential guarantee for the future of our democracy. Dr. Martha M. Eliot, Associate Chief of the Children's Bureau, has been responsible for general supervision of the initiation and development of the program for grants to the States for maternal and child - health services and crippled children's services. In 1941 the Division of Health Services was established in the Children's Bureau, combining the two former divisions, the Maternal and Child Health Division and the Crippled Children's Division, that had been directly responsible for administering these programs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.