Child Health Station Personnel: A Profile

Child responsible personnel in adult mental health services

BACKGROUND Children who have parents with mental health problems are a vulnerable group. Intervening early to support parents with a mental illness can contribute to improve outcomes for children. Rigging the adult mental health system in such a manner that child responsible personnel are designated in wards is a strategy to systematically address the needs of families. It has since 2010 been m...

COHORT PROFILE Cohort Profile: The Mauritius Child Health Project

The Mauritius Child Health Project is a prospective longitudinal study of child health and development based on a 1969 birth cohort of 1795 children. Originally set up by Professors P.V., S.M. and Fini Schulsinger in 1972, it has its conceptual origins in the successful High-Risk for Schizophrenia Project initiated in Denmark. Following the success of this project, the World Health Organization...

Staff rostering for the station personnel of a railway company

This paper presents a case study commissioned by the Spanish railway carrier Ferrocariles Españoles de Vı́a Estrecha for the annual rostering of work schedules for station personnel. A mixed rostering process is used. The first part of the process is carried out manually with the aid of a spreadsheet and Visual Basic, and consists of designing an initial graphic with 4-week patterns for each sta...

Training highly qualified health research personnel: The Pain in Child Health consortium

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Pain in Child Health (PICH) is a transdisciplinary, international research training consortium. PICH has been funded since 2002 as a Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, with contributions from other funding partners and the founding participation of five Canadian universities. The goal of PICH has been to crea...

Trends in health personnel.