accused Labour of exploiting the virus for political ends,” said the Daily Mail (31 December). “He rejected claims by Shadow Health Secretary John Healey that the government had cancelled a flu jab plan for under-fives to save money.” Meanwhile, as The Guardian reported on the same day, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley had reinstated a “Catch It, Bin It, Kill It” advertising campaign. “It had be...

The type of praise children receive influences whether children choose to persist after failure. One mechanism through which praise affects motivation is through the causal attributions inferred from language. For example, telling a child "You got an A on the test because you're smart," provides an explicit link between possessing a trait and an outcome, specifically that intelligence causes su...

Bulletin on the effectiveness of health service interventions for decision makers Bulletin on the effectiveness of health service interventions for decision makers ■ Urinary tract infection (UTI) is common in children under five. Children who are misdiagnosed can either fail to receive appropriate treatment or receive unnecessary treatment and investigation. ■ All of the tests commonly used for...

BACKGROUND Diarrhoeal disease forms one of the two major killer diseases in children under five years of age in the developing world. Data on the prevalence and related factors of diarrhea in Kashmir valley is quite scanty. Thus this study was carried out to find the burden of diarrhoeal disease and the effect of a temperate climate (as compared to a tropical one in rest of India) on the patter...

The deteriorating trend of malnutrition among under-five children (U5C) seen throughout the 1990s has changed. As shown below, preliminary figures from a UNICEF-supported survey carried out in February 2002 show that acute and general malnutrition are now less than half the levels of 1996, while chronic malnutrition has fallen by nearly 30% during the same period (Fig. 1). This decline should b...

Toddlers in South Kalimantan who experience nutritional problems on indicators of Weight/Height, namely underweight category, at a prevalence 5.5% above national figure 3.9%. Data from Guntung Payung Health Center showed there 38% under-fives with status and 9% very thin status. One preventive measures for undernourished toddlers is provision supplementary food containing high protein. Research...