introduction: the acquisition of speech and language constitutes a dynamic part of two-year-old children’s growth. expressive lexicon is a key indicator of language ability in these children. premature birth, birth before gestational week 37, is one of the most common risk factors associated with learning skill development. a review of literature suggests inconsistent results on the relationshi...

1 Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and Shaw-NKF-Children’s Kidney Centre, The Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital, Singapore Address for Correspondence: Dr Yap Hui Kim, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge, Singapore 119074. To this day, ...

The increasing prevalence of allergic diseases in the past decades has been caused by environmental rather than genetic factors. Recent research focused on relationship between mother’s exposure, especially during pregnancy, and outcomes offspring. Intervention studies to prevent have also conducted. Environmental factors, such as diet induce changes mother's intestinal flora, signals generated...

Diarrhoeal diseases are still a major challenge in Nepal because of inadequate safe water supply, poor sanitation and living conditions. However, several other factors such as the literacy rate, socio-economic status, and social, religious or personal perception of the cause of disease may influence the rate of morbidity and mortality of diarrhoeal diseases. A yearly minimum death of 30,000 and...

Child immunization stands out amongst the best intelligent divulgences at any point. It shields adolescents from becoming sick and dead appalling diseases, diminishing pain of various guardians. In this study, a quantitative cross-sectional study design is used. The self-administered questionnaire used to measure knowledge perception mothers regarding child immunization. data was analyzed using...

in a survey of the population of behbahan city, carried out in years 1990-91, the mean age was approximated up to 15.2 and 17.5 in the villages and the city, respectively. furthermore, about 27.4% and 27.9% of the corresponding populations were under 5 years of age. the birth rate in the urban and rural areas was about 31.2 and 33.3 per thousand live births. mortality rate related to the immatu...

conclusions the current study revealed that a significant percentage of sandwich generation females have chronic diseases. results a statistically significant difference was found between the two groups in terms of the presence of chronic diseases (p = 0.001). there was a significant correlation between chronic diseases and number of children (p = 0.03), person receiving care (p = 0.004), educa...