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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 98, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedInner-city infants that are part of an early discharge program coordinated with home visits may receive more primary care in the first three months of life and need fewer emergency services. Immunization history and the...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 116, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective. Decreased physician participation in Medicaid has been shown to affect adversely timeliness of adult acute care and pediatric specialty care, but it is not clear whether this is the case for newborn...
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From:Maternal and Child Health Journal (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPurpose As theories about the causes of racial inequities in infant mortality evolve, they are becoming increasingly complex. Interventions to address these inequities must be similarly complex, incorporating both...
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From:Practice Nurse (Vol. 20, Issue 7)LOCAL reactions such as redness and swelling can be significantly reduced by using longer needles to deliver routine infant vaccinations, a general practice study has found. A total of 119 infants attending for third...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 310, Issue 6982) Peer-ReviewedOver 40% of the deaths in healthy babies in Britain that occur during birth are linked to suboptimal care, said a government report last week. The first investigation into the deaths of 388 babies by the confidential...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 117, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIN THIS ISSUE of Pediatrics, Bol et al (1) report on the ,survival and severity of neural tube defects (NTDs) during the period that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated folic acid fortification of grains....
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 89, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFor the first time, WHO has issued a list of 30 priority medicines for maternal and child health that tells countries which medicines are most important for saving lives. Top medicines to treat mothers include oxytocin...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedPakistani women suffer the highest rate of maternal mortality in South Asia. A lack of comprehensive knowledge about maternal and newborn health (MNH) services costs impedes policy decisions to maximize the benefit from...
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From:Journal of the International AIDS Society (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: PRINCE?1 is an ongoing prospective, international, multicentre, nonrandomized, two?stage clinical trial assessing safety and efficacy of once?daily atazanavir (ATV) powder boosted with ritonavir (RTV)...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 17, Issue 33) Peer-ReviewedPostnatal home visiting services by midwives reduce adverse neonatal events and improve contraception outcomes in teenage mothers. Teenage pregnancies are associated with negative socioeconomic effects. Australian...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 71, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThirteen centres in eight countries (Egypt, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Democratic Yemen and Zambia) participated in the WHO collaborative study to evaluate the home-based maternal record (HBMR)....
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From:Contemporary Pediatrics (Vol. 25, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedEarly childhood tooth decay Did you know that tooth decay is the most common childhood disease? Forty percent of American children have cavities by age 6. Worst of all, if children get cavities in their baby teeth,...
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From:Journal of the International AIDS Society (Vol. 19) Peer-ReviewedObjectives: Investigate levels of retention at specified time periods along the prevention of mother?to?child transmission (PMTCT) cascade among mother?infant pairs as well as individual? and facility?level factors...
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From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective Height data is not useful immediately without further processing. The Growth Length Mat (Stunting Mat) was designed to stunting directly. However, the Mat has not been validated for use in Ghana. This study...
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From:Evidence-Based Nursing (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedQUESTION: Do home visits by paraprofessionals (lay visitors/peer support or community workers) trained in a programme model that is effective when delivered by nurses, improve maternal and child health? Design...
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From:Maternal and Child Health Journal (Vol. 21, Issue Suppl 1) Peer-ReviewedObjectives The goal of this study is to use Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) analysis to differentiate broad areas of risk (Maternal-Health/Prematurity, Maternal Care, Newborn Care, and Infant Health) associated with...
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From:Maternal and Child Health Journal (Vol. 24, Issue Suppl 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Nepal has pledged to substantially reduce maternal and newborn death by 2030. Improving quality of intrapartum health services will be vital to reduce these deaths. This paper examines quality of...
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From:Pediatric Nursing (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhat are some of the problems you see in counseling poor at-risk mothers in health department settings. How can the public health nurse recognize and Intervene in these problems? 1. Home visits are valuable to...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 111, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThis special issue of Pediatrics honors the critical role that mothers play in their child's health during 3 important periods: preconception, prenatal, and early childhood. Two general public heath messages are...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction This study aimed to build the emergent body of evidence of family planning and maternal and child health (FPMCH) service integration benefits that can be useful in reaching the target of sustainable...