Afghanistan's maternal and child mortality rates are among the highest in the world. The country faces challenges to meet the Millennium Development Goals set for 2015 which can be attributed to multiple causes related to accessibility, affordability and availability of health-care services. This report addresses the challenges in strengthening maternal and child health care in Afghanistan, as ...

We have spent many years hearing about the benefits that we are about to reap from computers, but often seem to find that workloads are increased rather than decreased by the demands for ever more complex data. I certainly hope that the possibilities being oVered up in this review represent more than idle dreams, and may be the first signs of computer systems that genuinely help to reduce our w...

Database applications and technologies are of central importance in many information systems a person may encounter. To obtain services, the end-users are required a smart card (plastic card containing a microcomputer), which is a device providing information about the user's identity and some related personal data. It can be updated and loaded with new data that will be used during further ses...

We use household survey data and a unique census of institutionalized children to analyze the impact of abortion legalization in Romania. We exploit the lift of the abortion ban in December 1989, when communist dictator Ceausescu and his regime were removed from power, to understand its impact on children's health at birth and during early childhood and whether the lift of the ban had an immedi...

Quality measurement can inform and encourage improvement in child health care. Currently, most measures gauge only whether care is received (e.g., receipt of a well-child care visit), providing little information about the actual content of care. We propose a measurement framework for comprehensive well-child care to capture a richer view of children's health care and take a more efficient appr...

the aim of this study was to test the model of the relationship between violence against women and aggressive behavior in children with mediation of maternal mental health. research design was correlation and path analysis. the study population included all of preschool children¢s mothers at the city of dezful. the sample was consisted of 250 pre-school children¢s mothers. that selected by mult...

Based on experience with Slovene Health Insurance Card System, the further development of smart-card based health care information systems is discussed. Emphasis is placed on required functionality starting with smart cards and ending with EDI technology on the other side. The current architecture is investigated in the light of emerging standards and commercial solutions from major software ve...

In recent years, claims about children's developing brains have become central to the formation of child health and welfare policies in England. While these policies assert that they are based on neuro-scientific discoveries, their relationship to neuroscience itself has been debated. However, what is clear is that they portray a particular understanding of children and childhood, one that is m...