BACKGROUND Recognition and referral of sick children to a facility where they can obtain appropriate treatment is critical for helping reduce child mortality. A well-functioning referral system and compliance by caretakers with referrals are essential. This paper examines referral patterns for sick children, and factors that influence caretakers' compliance with referral of sick children to hig...

BACKGROUND With over one million Syrian refugee children in the region, we undertook this study to characterize care-seeking behaviors and health service utilization for child refugees with the aim of informing humanitarian programming for non-camp settings in Jordan. METHODS A survey of Syrian refugees living outside of camps in Jordan was conducted using a 125 × 12 cluster design with proba...

An HIV diagnosis, like that of any another chronic illness, alters family dynamics. Although the whole family is affected by the illness, in most cases only one person assumes the sick person’s care. This is usually a family member who must adapt to the stresses of caregiver demands.[3,4] Many families have experience in caring for a chronically ill member, in which the primary caregiver is usu...

We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using data from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey Child Health Supplement. Controlling for household size, income and characteristics, we find that children living with step-mothers are significantly less likely to have routine doctor and dentist visits, or to have a place for usual medical care, or for...

BACKGROUND Access to child health services is an important determinant of child health. Whereas, child health indicators are generally better in urban than rural areas, some population groups in urban areas, such as children residing in urban slums do not enjoy this urban health advantage. In the context of increasing urbanisation and urban poverty manifesting with proliferation of urban slums,...

Background: Recognition and referral of sick children to a facility where they can obtain appropriate treatment is critical for helping reduce child mortality. A well-functioning referral system and compliance by caretakers with referrals are essential. This paper examines referral patterns for sick children, and factors that influence caretakers' compliance with referral of sick children to hi...

This study determined the effect of health-education intervention programme on health-seeking practices and treatment –preferences for mothers having under-five children with febrile-illness .Quasi Experimental research design was conducted among attended primary health care centres immunization in selected Primary Health Care s Ogbomoso Pre Post self-structured questionnaire were used to colle...

BACKGROUND Increasing the coverage of key maternal, newborn and child health interventions is essential, if India has to attain Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. This study assesses the coverage gap in maternal and child health services across states in India during 1992-2006 emphasizing the rural-urban disparities. Additionally, association between the coverage gap and under-5 mortality ra...

The first part of this essay looks at the care of the sick poor in one small London parish, St Bartholomew's Exchange (see map, figure 1), between the 1580s and the 1670s. The second part puts some question-marks around the interpretation that I give to the parish material. The care of the sick poor appears to have analogies with the later care of the sick poor in hospitals, but in the second p...

Abstract Background Maternal and child health have shown important advances in the world recent years. However, national averages indicators hide large inequalities access quality of care population subgroups. We explore wealth-related affecting coverage interventions reproductive, maternal, newborn, Latin America Caribbean. Methods analyzed representative surveys from 15 countries conducted be...