BACKGROUND Various policies in health, such as Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses, were introduced to enhance integrated service delivery in child healthcare. During clinical practice the researcher observed that integrated services may not be rendered. OBJECTIVES This article describes the experiences of mothers that utilised comprehensive child health services in the Cape Metropol...

BACKGROUND As overweight continues to rise among children, schools seek effective and sensitive ways to engage parents in promoting healthy weight. OBJECTIVE To evaluate a school-based health report card on the family awareness of and concern about the child weight status, plans for weight control, and preventive behaviors. DESIGN Quasi-experimental field trial with a personalized weight an...

how to cite this article: shamsaei f, cheraghi f, zamani ghr. comparing mental health of school-age children with and without epilepsy: a case control study. iran j child neurol. summer 2016; 10(3):35-41.   abstract objective mental health problems frequently occur in children with epilepsy but the diagnosis is frequently missed and therapeutic opportunities are often lost. the aim of this stud...

background: screening of students ´ health problems could lead to timely prevention and control of many health disorders. this study aimed to determine the nationwide prevalence of common disorders through school health screening program in iran methods: this cross-sectional national screening program was conducted in 2007-2008 among first- and third-grade- stu­dents in primary schools, first- ...

Immunization remains one of the most important and cost-effective public health interventions to reduce child mortality and morbidity. Globally, it is estimated to avert between 2 and 3 million deaths each year. In Ethiopia, immunization coverage rates stagnated and remained very low for many years. Thus, this study was aimed to assess child immunization coverage and factors associated with ful...

BACKGROUND Over the past four decades, the World Health Organization established the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) to foster universal access to all relevant vaccines for all children at risk. The success of this program has been undeniable, but requires periodic monitoring to ensure that coverage rates remain high. The aim of this study was to measure the BCG vaccination coverage in...

A situational diagnosis was performed on infant growth monitoring in Greater Metropolitan Recife and in the interior of the State of Pernambuco, Brazil, using the database from the Survey on Maternal and Child Health in the State of Pernambuco, 1998, which included 816 infants (< 1 year of age) and 120 health units. Epi Info version 6.04 was used for the analysis. In the health services infrast...

Electronic Health Records are key components to an efficient exploitation of information technologies in health care institutions. Nevertheless, several barriers that hinder its wide adoption subsists. The co-existence of dissimilar and incompatible health information systems and the absence of a unique central repository for personal medical data are some examples. This paper, we propose a web...

BACKGROUND Observational epidemiological studies and a systematic review have consistently shown an association between maternal exposure to biomass smoke and reduced birth weight. Our aim was to further test this hypothesis. METHODS We analysed the data from 47,139 most recent singleton births during preceding five years of 2005-06 India Demographic Health Survey (DHS). Information about bir...