the effect of family- centered care on anxiety of hospitalized child’s parents with urinery tract infection in pediatric ward of shahid motahary medical training center in urmia in 2012.     khalilzadeh h [1] *,khorsandi f [2] ,feizi a [3] ,khalkhali hr [4]     received: 21 nov , 2012 accepted: 17 feb , 2013     abstract   background & aims : child's hospitalization is considered as one of...

Background Home-based child care is a widely used form of non-parental early care and education both within the U.S. and abroad. The National Study of Early Care and Education estimates over one million paid home-based child care providers or family child care (FCC) providers and close to three million unpaid home-based caregivers or family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregivers care for childr...

Baseline data from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth were used to evaluate the associations between child care arrangement and poor developmental attainment (PDA). A weighted total of 521,800 children aged 2 to 3 years were studied (N = 2,709). PDA was assessed by age-standardized motor and social development score. Children were grouped by the predominant type of ...

In recent years, child care has become an important public policy issue, owing primarily to the significant increase in the labor force participation of women with young children. Consequently, a number of bills containing provisions to subsidize child care have been introduced into Congress. As a first step in considering possible behavioral responses to proposed child care subsidies, this pap...

We use data from a sample of child care centers to estimate the relationships between cost and child care quality, and between revenue and quality. We use a measure of child care quality, designed by developmental psychologists, that is positively associated with child development. Taking the estimated cost-quality and revenue-quality relationships as given, we estimate the objective functions ...