BACKGROUND Febrile seizures are benign but so terrifying for parents that they may subsequently view their affected children as "vulnerable". Children viewed as vulnerable may be brought to medical attention more frequently. We examined subsequent hospitalizations and physician visits during a 6- to 7 1/2-year period for a group of children who had participated in a case-control study of initia...

BACKGROUND The nature of continuous exposure to the street and its associated life-styles make street children vulnerable to the use of psychoactive substances. AIMS The aim of the present study is to study some social factors of street children in Guwahati city and to ascertain the substance use behavior of the street children. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A population based cross-sectional study ...

Background: The nature of continuous exposure to the street and its associated life‐styles make street children vulnerable to the use of psychoactive substances. Aims: The aim of the present study is to study some social factors of street children in Guwahati city and to ascertain the substance use behavior of the street children. Subjects and Methods: A population based cross‐sectional study c...

Street children, or children who live and/or spend time on the streets, are a vulnerable group of considerable concern to the global public health community. This paper describes the results of two linked qualitative studies conducted with children living or spending time on the street and in orphanages in and around urban areas in the Republic of Georgia between 2005 and 2006. The studies exam...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne infectious disease that is both preventable and curable, yet it kills more than a million people every year. Children are highly vulnerable, but often invisible casualties. Drug-resistant forms of TB are on the rise globally, and children are as vulnerable as adults but less likely to be counted as cases of drug-resistant disease if they become sick. Four factor...

The Lancet is wrong to suggest that the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has not advocated on behalf of children caught up in the refugee crisis (Editorial, Sept 12). We have welcomed the UK Government’s commitment to accept more refugees, but have also urged the leadership not to play politics with the world’s most vulnerable infants, children, and young people. The UK sho...

Child labor is a gradually increasing phenomenon across the world. Children working on the streets are vulnerable to a variety of mental and non-mental illnesses. Due to the scarcity of the research on the health impacts of this phenomenon on these children, this study investigates the risks of mental illnesses and school performance among children working on the streets. A comparative study wa...