G510 Improving child health outcomes through integrated child health training clinics

Child health clinics.

Improving child outcomes through maternal mental health interventions.

This commentary will provide a general overview of the public health considerations of maternal mental illness, both from a global perspective as well as from the South African context. The paper will outline the consequences of maternal mental illness for mothers as well as their offspring, through the life stages from pregnancy until adulthood. The paper then describes the Perinatal Mental He...

Community child health training.

his leading article aims to highlight the main training issues in community child health (CCH) and, in light of work done so far, discuss provision of appropriate numbers of well trained paediatricians to meet the needs of the nation's children. Community child health is a subspe-cialty of paediatric medicine that has undergone much change in structure and service provision in recent years, and...

Discovering anaemia at child health clinics.

Children at three inner city child health clinics were offered haemoglobin estimation by fingerprick blood test when attending for immunisation against measles. Of the 98 immunised, 92 (94%) participated in the study, together with 58 other children. Anaemia (haemoglobin concentration less than 110 g/l) was found in 33 of 130 overall (25%), and in 17 of 44 Asian children (39%). The method of te...

Improving Child Outcomes through Welfare Reform

This paper investigates how government antipoverty programs in the United States can support the development of disadvantaged children. I accomplish this by formalizing and estimating a model in which maternal investments of time and money determine child outcomes. Mothers choose these investments, their labor supply, and their program participation subject to constraints on their time and budg...