BACKGROUND A series of studies has demonstrated that sick children fare better when their parents are present. OBJECTIVE To examine working conditions that determine whether parents can spend time with and become involved in the care of their children when they are sick. DESIGN Survey with a multivariate analysis of factors influencing parental care of sick children. PARTICIPANTS Mixed-in...

OBJECTIVE This study tested whether an immigrant mother's perception of ethnic and language-based discrimination affects the health of her child (indexed by the child's frequency of sick visits to the doctor, adjusting for well-visits), as a function of her ethnic-group attachment and length of U.S. residency. METHOD A community-based sample of 98 immigrant Dominican and Mexican mothers of no...

This paper reports on a population-based sample survey of 2,289 children aged less than five years (under-five children) conducted in 2000 as a baseline for the Bangladesh component of the Multi-country Evaluation (MCE) of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy. Of interest were rates and differentials by sex and socioeconomic status for three aspects of child health in rural B...

Few images arouse as much emotion as that of a sick child. The desire to do anything to help that child can be powerful and can cause people to take extreme measures to make the child well, especially when the illness is a fatal one, like AIDS. Recent scientific studies have shown that treating HIV-positive mothers during pregnancy can decrease the likelihood of transmission to the infant. Thes...

BACKGROUND Little is known regarding paediatric medical emergency calls to Danish Emergency Medical Dispatch Centres (EMDC). This study aimed to investigate these calls, specifically the medical issues leading to them and the pre-hospital units dispatched to the paediatric emergencies. METHODS We performed a retrospective, observational study on paediatric medical emergency calls managed by t...

BACKGROUND Preventive health care services, such as cancer screening can be particularly vulnerable to a lack of paid leave from work since care is not being sought for illness or symptoms. We first describe the prevalence of paid sick leave by broad occupational categories and then examine the association between access to paid sick leave and cancer testing and medical care-seeking in the U.S....

AFFILIATIONS: Program in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Division of Haematology/Oncology, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Johann-Wolfgang Goethe-University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany ADDRESS FOR ...

Adoption is a necessity for every family that cannot have children, especially married couples who do not children so they make adopted like biological children. Problems arise if the adoptive parents submitted lawsuit canceling adoption. This paper result of legal research method using an empirical juridical problem approach. The considerations are court may refuse to examine and decide on cas...