Advocacy programmes targeting street-connected children involve changing public and policy makers’ perceptions about this group of often stigmatised children. Increasingly, such centre leisure activities, sports, sporting events as potential platforms for sharing messages aimed at effecting social change. For effective impact, advocacy goals require that safe spaces are developed emerging child...

The children whose conversations are examined in this chapter are working-class black preadolescent girls and boys from Philadelphia, ages 4-14, whom I (Marjorie Harness Goodwin)' audiotaped for a year and a half as they went about their everday activities while playing on the street. The "Maple Street\group," as the children will be referred to, includes forty-four friends living within a bloc...

Visual fixation in infants from 6 months to 2 years of age was examined for its fit to the theory of "attentional inertia." A children's movie ("Sesame Street" movie, "Follow that Bird") or an extended audiovisual stimulus (computer-generated patterns) was presented to 40 children for a minimum of 20 min while fixation was videotaped and heart rate (HR) was recorded. Consistent with attentional...

The study objective was to ascertain the extent to which the need for primary health care services among street-dwellers is being met through existing facilities. This community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Dhaka city over a 12-month period from June 2007 to May 2008. The study population included ever-married females and males aged 15-49 years. Data for the study were collected...

Distractibility during extended visual fixations in children 6 months to 2 years of age was examined. A children's Sesame Street movie (Follow That Bird) was presented to children (N = 40) for a minimum of 20 min while fixation was videotaped and heart rate was recorded. Distractors (computer-generated patterns or another Sesame Street movie) were presented on an adjacent television screen. Con...

Street children are who spend a lot of time on the streets starting from their daily activities or just wandering around to make living one place another. The purpose this study is find out what underlies street decide go down and live streets, views community about children, problems experienced by children. research method used descriptive qualitative conducting interviews observations concer...

Techna Institute for the Advancement of T Network, 100 College Street, Toronto, ON, M [email protected] Department of Medical Biophysics, Universi ON, M5G 1L7, Canada Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learn Street, Toronto, ON, M5G 0A4, Canada Drug Discovery Program, Ontario Institu Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G 0A3, Canada Department of Surgery, University of Toron 1P5, Canada Keenan Research Ce...