Nutrition for healthy term infants is a joint statement by Health Canada, the Canadian Paediatric Society, Dietitians of Canada and the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada that was most recently updated in September 2012 with recommendations from birth to six months of age. This practice point outlines the development process, principles of infant feeding, and recommendations for clinicians. Hea...

This study examines the association between infant feeding patterns and health for 6,267 Samoan children born between 1976 and 1982, and represented in the Well Baby Clinic records at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center, American Samoa. The visits to the clinic were aggregated by trimester of age during the first year of life. For each trimester, the principal source of milk was determined, and the...

background: preterm birth is one of the most remarkable reasons for neonatal and infant mortality and morbidity across the world. this study aimed to determine risk factors of premature infants in the rural area of azadshahr city, iran. materials and methods: acase-control study was conducted on all premature and low birth neonates (less than 37 weeks and weight less than 2500 grams). data were...

OBJECTIVE Data from municipal databases can be used to plan interventions aimed at reducing inequities in health care. The objective of the study was to determine the distribution of infant mortality according to an urban geoeconomic classification using routinely collected municipal data. METHODS All live births (total of 42,381) and infant deaths (total of 731) that occurred between 1994 an...

1 Baltimore City Infant Mortality: Leading Causes, Risk Factors, and Policy Solutions Introduction The infant mortality rate (IMR) is an important health statistic used by health agencies, economists, government officials, media, and many others as a key indicator of a nation, region, or city’s overall health and standard of living. In addition, the causes of infant mortality contribute, per-pe...

Purpose: To present the strategies used and effects of early physiotherapy intervention using telehealth on a Down syndrome infant. Materials methods: An infant diagnosed with performed intervention. Telehealth was synchronously according to biopsychosocial model The assessments were carried out International Classification Functioning, Disability Health checklist. Alberta Infant Motor Scale Br...

BACKGROUND Parent-infant psychotherapy (PIP) is a dyadic intervention that works with parent and infant together, with the aim of improving the parent-infant relationship and promoting infant attachment and optimal infant development. PIP aims to achieve this by targeting the mother's view of her infant, which may be affected by her own experiences, and linking them to her current relationship ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the infant feeding components of prevention of mother to child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programmes. METHODS Assessments were performed across Botswana, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda. 29 districts offering PMTCT were selected by stratified random sampling with rural and urban strata. All health facilities in the selected PMTCT district were assessed. The facility level manager a...

Studies relate Maternal-Fetal Attachment (MFA) to delays in child development, however, the relationship with social-emotional development is still unclear. Thus, aim of this study was investigate association between MFA and infants at 3 months old, a population-based sample southern Brazil. This fo...

Editorials 778 Infant mortality is an indicator of population health and a measure of global health inequalities. 1 Despite advances in medical sciences and acknowledgement of the role of hygiene and sanitation, survival of infants continues to be a challenge worldwide. Evidence suggests that the survival of infants after the age of one month is mainly influenced by the external environment in ...