This study had two aims: to describe the activities of a clinical training unit set up for the integrated management of sick children, and to evaluate the impact of the unit after its first four years of operation. The training unit was set up in the outpatient ward of a government hospital and was staffed by a paediatrician, a family medicine physician, two nurses and a nutritionist. The staff...

The admission of a newborn child to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is among the most emotionally distressing situations that a family can face. Young families with little experience with critical care medicine are thrown into a high-tech environment that is bewildering and foreign to most parents1. A sick child may pose emotional, educational, and logistical problems for a parent. Duri...

Health service utilization is an important component of child health promotion. Evidence shows that two-thirds of child deaths in low and middle income countries could be prevented if current interventions were adequately utilized. Aim of this study was to identify determinants of variation in health services utilization for children in communities in Nigeria. Multivariable negative binomial re...

Every year, there are 31 million children who visit the emergency departments of our nation’s hospitals. A majority of these pediatric emergency department visits are made by children under the age of 3 years. Although, much is made of the freestanding children’s hospitals that are dedicated and staffed to care for the special needs of the child, in reality, 90% of children who require emergenc...

Primary care physicians can easily identify overweight in children aged < 2 years using body-mass index. There is no consensus on the appropriate way of identifying overweight before age 2 years. However, the primary care physician should be alert if the body-mass index of a child < 2 years of age is significantly higher then those published (as a guideline) in this paper. Overweight is occurri...

When assessing the health benefits of increased education in less developed countries, many researchers have been concerned about the omission of important determinants of an individual's education from the models. The study presented here shows that one should also be concerned about the limitations of the individual-level perspective. According to a multilevel discrete-time hazard model estim...

Czechia had one of the longest school lockdowns during pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Teachers with small children consequently faced a number emotional dilemmas that primarily stemmed from conflict between their role as teacher parent, which unfolded home only space to perform work, family care, self-care. The paper is organised around question why teachers this difficult situation did not take ad...