Enduring Scars: Child Soldiers and Mental Health
by globalhealth on Dec 13, 2012 in Key Correspondent News
Key Correspondent Alex Bartoloni reports from the speech given by Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire November 16th,...
IFGH 2012: The Socio-Cultural Consequences of Child Disabilities on Women’s Lives in Rural Bangladesh: Findings from a Qualitative Study
by globalhealth on Jan 29, 2012 in Conference Abstracts
The present study explored social and psychological consequences on mothers of children who suffered from a disability associated with a complicated...
IFGH 2012: Health Conceptions among Adolescents: A Qualitative Study at Sylhet, Bangladesh
by globalhealth on Jan 29, 2012 in Conference Abstracts
For better understanding about adolescents’ conception on health, this study wcarried out a qualitative study to investigate how the adolescents conceptualized health. This revealed that adolescents have diversified thinking on health which demands to provide special attention for improving their understanding on...
IFGH 2012: Screening Program in Children for Prevention of Chronic Renal Disease and Hypertension in the Peruvian Andes
by globalhealth on Jan 29, 2012 in Conference Abstracts
This study aimed to identify children and adolescents at risk for Renal Disease based on an early detection of proteinuria and to slow the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) by early intervention after...
IFGH 2012: Turning the HEAT up for Community Health Workers
by globalhealth on Jan 27, 2012 in Conference Abstracts
Authors: Long, L-A Author Affiliations:International Development Office, The Open University Option 2– Lessons from the field; project and programme evaluations; and syntheses or analyses Presented as – Oral Presentation Issues: Despite major progress, Ethiopia’s health care system is one of Sub-Sahara...
IFGH 2012: In Gestation: A Proposal to Implement a Cluster Randomized Control Trial (ICRCT) of the Helping Baby Breath (HBB) Program to Village Midwives (VMs) in Sudan
by globalhealth on Jan 27, 2012 in Conference Abstracts
The aim of this paper is to propose an ICRCT(Implement a Cluster Randomized Control Trial) of HBB (Helping Baby Breath) into rural Sudan, focusing on training 14,000 Village Midwives (VMs), distributed over 18 Regions/provinces and covering a rural population of 25...
The Debate – Early Childhood Development
by globalhealth on Sep 28, 2011 in Multimedia
Why hasn't the world embraced early childhood development?...