Biography as Prophecy: Direction for Maternal and Child Health

Maternal and Child Health

Maternal and child health.

The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved. doi:10.1093/eurpub/cki170 Advance Access publication February 9, 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Maternal and Child Health: - Work together and learn together for maternal and child health handbook-.

It was quite a while ago that I studied in Boston as a Takemi Fellow, but the days I spent in the scholarship program still remain one of the most exciting and fruitful periods of my life. It was a year in which I encountered many different people, learned a lot, and came to realize many things that I hadn’t noticed before. The participants of the program included a number of brilliant people f...

Privatizing funding for maternal, child health.

Iron deficiency and child and maternal health.

BACKGROUND Iron deficiency is most commonly found in women of reproductive age and infants worldwide, but the influence of maternal iron deficiency on infant development is underexplored. OBJECTIVE The objective was to examine the relation between maternal iron status and mother-child interactions in a randomized, double-blind, intervention trial conducted in South Africa. DESIGN Women were...