JINGSONG ZHAO,1 PATRICIA J. SIME,2 PABLO BRINGAS, JR.,1 JACK GAULDIE,2 AND DAVID WARBURTON1 1Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, and Cell and Developmental Biology Program, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Research Institute, University of Southern California Schools of Dentistry and Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90033; and 2Molecular Virology and...

Submitters: George L. Catignani, Department of Food Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27650 John G. Bieri, Nutritional Biochemistry Section, Laboratory of Nutrition and Endocrinology, National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20014 Evaluators: William J. Driskell and Mark M. Bashor, NutriLional Biochemistry Branch, Clinical Chemistry D...

The social progress of Ukrainian society directly depends on the health population, and prospects for its development depend younger generation, especially school-age children. Since school age is most favorable formation healthy lifestyle skills, a conscious attitude to one's health, desire maintain improve level throughout later life. Unfortunately, physical children adolescents has been stea...

Introduction: Childhood asthma is a serious health problem that results in impairment of physical and social life the affected children. Objective: The current study identifies effect on asthmatic children quality also to assess differences between childs parents report about health, emotional activity. Method: A cross-sectional, descriptive, quantitative was carried out where Sixty-four partic...

The aim of this qualitative study was to improve the understanding of the interface between health and educational sectors. Parents of adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN, n=11), cancer (n=11) and cystic fibrosis (CF, n=16) were recruited through two tertiary hospitals in Victoria. Audio-recorded in-depth interviews were conducted and transcribed verbatim. Consistent themes emerged across the...

Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) is a well described autosomal dominant syndrome, whereby individuals develop multiple (up to thousands) of adenomatous polyps in the large bowel, conferring an extremely high risk of bowel cancer if left untreated. If the family specific mutation is known, genetic testing can be offered to at risk individuals to determine the need for endoscopic surveillance...

What motivates adult children in the United States to care for their disabled parents? This paper examines whether altruism and bequest motives influence adult childrens’ decisions about giving time to care for a disabled parent, giving financial resources, and giving future financial resources. Further, the paper examines the ways these different forms of giving affect caregivers’ overall well...

Last year, a process evaluation protocol was designed by Government of India (GOI), United Nations Childrens' Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO) consisting of a rapid qualitative evaluation by independent observers throughout the country. The process evaluation was carried out on the first day of the PPI to provide information for improving the effectiveness of the day 2 activiti...