This short review was presented as part of the Morehouse School of Medicine Fifth Annual Primary Care Conference in October 2005. As child health morbidities and mortalities shift from infectious diseases, child healthcare providers must become more vigilant and aggressive at suspecting, screening for, and intervening in behavioral and developmental problems in early childhood. There is growing...

BACKGROUND Profound knowledge about child growth, development, health, and disease in contemporary children and adolescents is still rare. Epidemiological studies together with new powerful research technologies present exciting opportunities to the elucidation of risk factor-outcome associations with potentially major consequences for prevention, diagnosis and treatment. AIM To conduct a uni...

This paper addresses an often overlooked aspect of climate change impacts on child health: the amplification of existing child health inequities by climate change. Although the effects of climate change on child health will likely be negative, the distribution of these impacts across populations will be uneven. The burden of climate change-related ill-health will fall heavily on the world's poo...

Respiratory disease is the predominant cause of illness in children globally. We describe a unique multidisciplinary South African birth cohort, the Drakenstein Child Health Study (DCHS), to investigate the incidence, risk factors, aetiology and long-term impact of early lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) on child health. Pregnant women from a poor, peri-urban community with high exposure...

acute respiratory infections, diarrhea and fever are very common in children below the age of five years. all children suffer from these illnesses several times each year. however, during natural disasters like floods children are even more vulnerable to these diseases and death. pneumonia, diarrhea, measles and malaria, and associated malnutrition, are responsible for over 60% deaths in childr...

The current pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading at an accelerated rate globally. Global concerns were raised following its discovery in December 2019, as previous similar diseases. Diseases such severe acute respiratory syndrome-related (SARS-CoV) and Middle East (MERS-CoV) are known to lead adverse outcomes pregnant women those early maternal stages, w...

Acute respiratory infections, diarrhea and fever are very common in children below the age of five years. All children suffer from these illnesses several times each year. However, during natural disasters like floods children are even more vulnerable to these diseases and death. Pneumonia, diarrhea, measles and malaria, and associated malnutrition, are responsible for over 60% deaths in childr...

To assess the nutritional status of children under 5, a survey was conducted in the under-privileged community of Mahmoodabad. Of over 1,000 children, three-fourth had varying grades of protein calorie malnutrition. The prevalence of grade III malnutrition was higher in children in their 2nd year and among those belonging to families of more than four persons. On the average, a child was report...

The Concise Communication by M'ikanatha et al in this issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, "Child Care Center Exclusion Policies and Directors' Opinions on the Use of Antibiotics," is a useful window into child care policies and child care directors' opinions about the use of antibiotics in child care. Given our knowledge that infectious disease is more common among children in...

BACKGROUND As an immune modulator, vitamin D is involved in various pathophysiological mechanisms in a plethora of diseases. This study aims to correlate the vitamin D deficiency status and clinical progression of liver diseases associated with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in patients in Vietnam and to compare it to healthy controls. METHODS We quantified the levels of total vitamin D [2...