In this study influences of maternal prenatal stress on the cortisol reactions of children to a vaccination were determined. Prenatal stress at around 16 weeks of gestation was measured through questionnaires and a cortisol day curve. Cortisol reactions were determined preceding and following the vaccination. A total of 24 children (age between 3.11 and 5.9 years, mean age 4.9 years) and their ...

ood health often depends on having a good job and economic security. At the same time, staying healthy is often critical to keeping a job. For women, the tie between health and economic security is intensified by their responsibilities for caring for sick children or family members. In fact, The Commonwealth Fund 1998 Survey of Women’s Health finds that half of all lowincome, nonworking women a...

Disabled persons are experiencing additional difficulties when interacting with systems, applications or devices and also have their own unique requirements that enable them to use a system. If the design of the system does not support these requirements, people with disabilities will experience obstacles that may prevent them from interacting effectively with a system. This paper reports on ou...

the situation of people with disabilities in the developing countries should be a matter of great concern. there are today close to 250 million severely and moderately disabled persons in these countries; the annual increase is 10 million. most of them are poor, dependent neglected, excluded from education, training and jobs; they die early and have no power while alive. between 15 and 20% of a...

The purpose of this paper was to understand the meaning adolescence has for parents of adolescents with mental disability. The methodology used was the narrative analysis according to the guidelines of Thompson (1998) and Byron-Good (1996). Although the parents identified some typical characteristics of adolescence in their children, not always they did in fact consider them adolescents due to ...

brothers and fathers between the two groups was to the advantage of the patients with 47,XXY and not to the patients of 46,XY. Finally, it should be mentioned that to secure an unbiased attitude on the part of the examiner the psychological investigation was carried out blindly, the psychologist possessing knowledge of neither anaznnestic data, psychiatric evaluation, or results of physical and...

You have done me the honour of inviting me to speak to you tonight upon the subject of "The Day-toDay Management of the Handicapped Child in its own home." I have much pleasure in doing so because so great a part of the daily medical work of myself and my colleagues and the nursing staff in our hospital is concerned with problems common to yours in the care of these children. As many of you are...

An aetiological study of mentally handicapped children in Edinburgh has provided an opportunity for assessing the prevalence of mental handicap in this area and the distribution of handicapped children by severity of defect and clinical type. A definite cause of mental handicap is found in only a minority of cases. Nevertheless, any aetiological investigation must begin with an attempt to class...