Good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. Poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. For millions of chi...

This paper adapts the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use Technology Model (UTAUT) to assess the factors impacting the adoption of smart cards in Medicaid Health Home context. We contribute to the theory by including three constructs specific to smart card and health devices: (i) concern for error, (ii) sickness orientation (iii) concern for data security. Utilizing a survey design we collecte...

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Background: Optimal infant and young child feeding practices (IYCF) are crucial for nutritional status, growth, development, health, ultimately the survival of children. Even with several national schemes programs in place, India’s progress tackling problem malnutrition is slow. This study aims to estimate prevalence undernutrition factors determining among under five children rural Mysuru.Meth...

Background All parents in Sweden are invited to child health service (CHS) parental groups, however only 49% of the families participate. The way the parental groups are managed has been shown to be of importance for how parents experience the support and CHS nurses describe feeling insecure when running the groups. Lack of facilitation, structure and leadership might jeopardise the potential b...

BACKGROUND Hukou is the household registration system in China that determines eligibility for various welfare benefits, such as health care, education, housing, and employment. The hukou system may lead to nutritional and health disparities in China. We aim at examining the role of the hukou system in affecting urban-rural disparities in child nutrition, and disentangling the institutional eff...

Introduction Health is multidimensional and affected by a wide range of factors, many of which are outside the health sector. To improve population health and reduce health inequality, it is important that we take into account the complex interactions among social, environmental, behavioural, and biological factors and design our health interventions accordingly. Objectives This study examines ...

BACKGROUND The importance of involving men in reproductive, maternal and child health programs is increasingly recognised globally. In the Pacific region, most maternal and child health services do not actively engage expectant fathers and fathers of young children and few studies have been conducted on the challenges, benefits and opportunities for involving fathers. This study explores the at...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which the Early Start program of home visitation had beneficial consequences in the areas of maternal health, family functioning, family economic circumstances, and exposure to stress and adversity. METHODS The study used a randomized, controlled trial design in which 220 families receiving the Early Start program were contrasted with a control series of 223...

In the past 12 years 800 children with mental retardation or with cerebral palsy have been seen in the Children's Hospital, Sheffield, by the Department of Child Health. While looking through punch-card summaries of these cases, it became obvious that there was a much higher incidence of associated congenital anomalies in children with mental retardation without cerebral palsy than in those wit...