Why are we still struggling to control the devastating effects of childhood tuberculosis? This disease has been with us since ancient times and yet, even with known effective prevention and treatment strategies, much of the world has unacceptable levels of childhood morbidity and mortality due to tuberculosis. As expected, progress in identification and treatment has occurred primarily in high-...

β – thalassemia major is a chronic inherited blood disorder requiring lifelong treatment including transfusion, putting tremendous burden on caregivers of the affected children. Aims were to measure care, prevalence and severity depression anxiety, their association with various socio-demographic illness related factors in children major. A cross-sectional study was conducted 100 suffering from...

In 2010, there were estimated 219 million cases of malaria resulting in 666,000 deaths and two-thirds were children. Children are more vulnerable than adults to malaria parasites. In sub-Saharan African countries, maternal malaria is associated with up to 200,000 estimated infant deaths yearly. Malaria is caused by five Plasmodium parasites namely: Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasm...

BACKGROUND Prior to the introduction of rotavirus vaccines, rotavirus was the leading cause of severe gastroenteritis in infants and young children, and it continues to be the leading cause in countries without vaccination programs. Rotavirus gastroenteritis results in substantial economic burden and has a pronounced effect on the family of those who are ill. Both in Taiwan and in Vietnam, rota...

OBJECTIVES To profile the national prevalence of more medically complex children with special health care needs (CSHCN) and the diversity of caregiver challenges that their families confront. DESIGN Secondary analysis of the 2005-2006 National Survey of Children With Special Health Care Needs (unweighted n = 40 723). SETTING United States-based population. PARTICIPANTS National sample of ...

We examined the association between states' legislative mandates that private insurance cover autism services and the health care-related financial burden reported by families of children with autism. Child and family data were drawn from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (N  =  2,082 children with autism). State policy characteristics were taken from public sources...

evaluation of parental satisfaction of nursing care in thalassemic children tavasoli sh1, alhani f2 received: 16 july, 2010 accepted: 25 oct, 2010 abstract background & aims: hospitalization for parents and children causes anxiety. therefore, evaluation of parents' satisfaction concerning their child's nursing care is necessary. observing parental satisfaction is important in determin...

one of the most important summary measures of population health, is disability adjusted life years (daly), introduced for the first time in the project of global burden of disease (gbd), that is the newest as well as the most accepted and familial summary measure of health and the burden of diseases has been measured by this measure at national and regional levels in many countries of the world...

Background: As delivering care is an inherent part of becoming parents, providing high level care to the child with health problems might be a burden for the caregivers by affecting their physical and mental health. The best way to understand the negative effects of caring process of the children with a chronic disease like asthma is to inquire caregiver burden. Aim: This review aimed to analyz...

A full accounting of the excess burden of poor health in childhood must include any continuing loss of productivity over the life course. Including these costs results in a much higher estimate of the burden than focusing only on medical costs and other shorter-run costs to parents (such as lost work time). Policies designed to reduce this burden must go beyond increasing eligibility for health...