Background Children with cancer are in risk of malnutrition. Nutritional risk assessmentis more importance in developing countries. The aim of present study was to investigate the nutritional risk in admitted children with cancer. Materials and Methods One hundred admitted children newly diagnosed with cancer were studied at the time of admission, after 3 and 6 months.Demographic characteristic...

Background: Phototherapy is the most effective and commonly used treatment for neonatal jaundice, which reduces the need to exchange transfusion. Today, phototherapy is widely used even in unnecessary cases; however, clinicians who use phototherapy should be aware of the possible adverse effects of this treatment to avoid unnecessary use of it. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the relati...

how to cite this article:  esmaeeli m, erfani sayar r, saghebi a, elmi saghi, rahmani sh, elmi s, rabbani javadi a. screening for depression in hospitalized pediatric patients. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter; 8(1):47-51.   objective in chronically ill children who are hospitalized, many mood changes occur. for example, in children with cancer or renal failure, prolonged hospitalization and ch...

dear editors: adenocarcinoma of colon and rectum is the second most common cancer of the gastrointestinal (gi) tract in children. the development of carcinoma of colon in general appears to be associated with several predisposing factors such as familial polyposis, hereditary non-polyposis syndromes, ulcerative colitis, previous ureterosigmoidostomy or radiation therapy and dietary factors (hig...

Previous researchers have noted that the ‘categorical’ Medicaid eligibility accompanying the welfare programs Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) often far exceeds the value of these programs’ cash benefits. It may be the case that the accompanying health insurance, not the cash benefit, is often the decisive factor in welfare participation. If ...

This paper uses state panel data to investigate changes in public assistance caseloads through the end of the AFDC program in 1996, with particular attention to the rapid increase in caseloads between 1990 and 1994. Previous research has focussed on total caseloads, with attention to economic and policy variables, and does a relatively poor job of explaining this caseload increase. This paper u...

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 (PRWOA, often simply called “welfare reform”) led to profound changes in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, which was renamed the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program in the process. Those changes included removing millions of persons from eligibility for direct public assistance, which in pre...

Plunging caseloads and soaring employment among single mothers lead many to judge welfare reform a stunning success. Lost in the caseload counts and political rhetoric is the subject of our chapter: welfare reform and children. We sort through conflicting theory and evidence regarding the impacts of welfare reform on children’s well-being and development. A brief examination of recent trends in...