BACKGROUND A trial to evaluate the Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) strategy showed that the intervention resulted in lower infant mortality and improved infant care practices. In this paper, we present the results of a secondary analysis to examine the effect of the IMNCI strategy on inequities in health indicators. METHODS The trial was a cluster-randomized co...

Neonatal medicine was officially initiated in the United States of America in 1973, and in the same year, the American Board of Pediatrics held the first subspecialty examination in the field of neonatal-perinatal medicine. The first Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Tehran began its work with great efforts of Prof. Hadi Samaee at Ali-Asghar Children's Hospital, approved by the Ministry of ...

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results almost half of the veterans did not demonstrate any psychopathology and half of them were diagnosed with borderline or serious psychopathology. veterans receiving disability pension had more mental problems in comparison with the employed veterans. veterans receiving disability pension had higher scores in psychosomatic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety, phob...

background despite high immunization rates, hundreds of thousands of poor and underserved children continue to lack their necessary immunizations and are at risk of acquiring a vaccine-preventable disease. local health departments (lhds) and public health clinicians figure prominently in efforts to address this problem.   methods this exploratory research compared ten (10) north carolina lhds w...

CONTEXT Clues from the epidemiology of schizophrenia suggest that low levels of developmental vitamin D may be associated with increased risk of schizophrenia. OBJECTIVE To directly examine the association between neonatal vitamin D status and risk of schizophrenia. DESIGN Individually matched case-control study drawn from a population-based cohort. SETTING Danish national health register...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate psychological stress in parents of children with esophageal atresia and to explore factors associated with the development of Posttraumatic Stress disorder (PTSD). DESIGN Self-report questionnaires were administered to parents of children with EA. Domains included: (1) sociodemographic data, current personal difficulties, assessment scales fo...

probiotics are used to control or maintain a constant state of intestinal bacteria. when the bacterial populations are altered by stress or antibiotic therapy, animal health and performance may decline. this experiment was designed to study the effects of feeding a probiotic (saccharomyces cerevisiae cncm i-1079) on growth and health of neonatal holstein calves. forty –five neonatal holstein ca...

Menurut World Health Organization (WHO) 2018 Berat badan lahir rendah (BBLR) penyebab tidak langsung dari kematian neonatal. BBLR berkontribusi 60% hingga 80% semua neonatal dan berdasarkan survei awal angka kejadian sebanyak 30 bayi 90 kelahiran dikarenakan status gizi ibu pada masa kehamilannya. Untuk mengetahui hubungan hamil dengan di Klinik Pratama Hanum Tahun 2021. Penelitian ini mengguna...

BACKGROUND Exploring changes in health inequality and its determinants over time is of policy interest. Accordingly, this study aimed to decompose inequality in neonatal mortality into its contributing factors and then explore changes from 1995-2000 to 2005-2010 in Iran. METHODS Required data were drawn from two Iran's demographic and health survey (DHS) conducted in 2000 and 2010. Normalized...