Children S Environmental Health Articles & Analysis
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Childhood vaccinations provide immunity to children against serious infectious diseases before they are exposed to them to prevent illness. Many childhood diseases, such as smallpox and polio, have been almost completely eradicated as a result of widespread, standardized childhood vaccination programs. Some vaccinations, such as those for highly contagious diseases including measles, mumps, ...
This paper reviews empirical evidence on the common findings from the existing literature on Grameen Bank (GB) microcredit performance on the borrower's poverty alleviation in Bangladesh. We first examine the GB microcredit impact on poverty alleviation with respect to its member's income, consumption, health, children's education and women empowerment. In general, most of the findings from the ...
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing entitled “Oversight Hearing on Disease Clusters and Environmental Health.” Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Senator Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health Subcommittee, introduced the ...
This cross-sectional survey was to determine dietary diversity, nutrient intake, nutrition status and prevalence of childhood illnesses among pre-school children in Matungu division, Western Kenya. A total of 144 households were arrived at using multistage sampling, structured questionnaires with food frequency tables and 24-hour recalls were administered and anthropometric measurements taken. ...
The author makes a comment about the recently approved Italian law known as 'security package' (DDL 733-B), that introduces the crime of clandestinity. An illegal alien, who would by chance give birth to a baby in this country, could not recognise her child legally nor register the baby's birth and have it recognised in her family status. The Italian State is going to ignore these children. They ...
Today's children are exposed to a wide range of environmental threats, whose consequences on health and development may appear early in life, throughout their youth and even later, in adulthood. Health problems linked to environmental hazards are multiplying and becoming more visible due to a rapidly changing environment, rapid population growth, overcrowding, fast industrialisation and ...
The Profile of Children's Environmental Health (CEH) in Argentina is a collective publication developed by the Ministry of Health of Argentina, Argentine Society of Paediatrics (SAP), Argentine Association of Doctors for the Environment and the Canadian Institute of Child Health with support from the Canadian International Development Agency. The aim of the Profile is to present an evidence-based ...
Asthma has shown a steady increase in prevalence globally for the past two and a half decades. The environmental factors strongly tilt the balance over genetic factors as causative factors. To find out the current prevalence, spectrum and seasonal variation of asthma, and to compare with the previous studies from the same place, prospective hospital-based study based on respiratory evaluation of ...
This cross-sectional study covering all children visiting third grade classes with more than ten children in any elementary school of Hungary used parent-completed questionnaires on the children's present and past health condition, the parents' respiratory health and smoking habits, the home environment and the families' socio-economic status. Around 6670 children from the Northern-Transdanubian ...
How CREMe is Helping Fight Childhood Obesity The Current State Of Affairs Childhood obesity has widely spread in industrialized countries. In the USA, over 15% of children are currently considered obese and the number is likely to grow in the future. In Ireland alone, about 300,000 children are overweight or obese. Obesity indirectly leads to about 2,000 deaths a year and also to ...
The issue of testing pesticides using human subjects has created one of the most explosive environmental debates to arrive in Washington in years. Although the National Academy of Sciences had given a green light to such testing, the Environmental Protection Agency abruptly canceled a proposed pesticide exposure study involving children when Democratic senators threatened to block the ...
President Clinton’s commitment to children’s health may well be a defining feature of his legacy. The last eight years have witnessed an unprecedented number of health initiatives dedicated to protecting infants and children. This commitment is found in virtually every aspect of federal policymaking and rulemaking, from expansive legislation to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policy. ...