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Download full textMCH Program Interchange, 1991
This document provides information about selected materials related to perinatal substance abuse. Materials include books, reports, directories, and other items issued from 1987 to 1991. Most citations provide author, title, date, contact, ordering information, and a brief abstract. The resource guide describes 13 materials from state and local…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Child Health, Drug Abuse, Perinatal Influences
Children in the Tropics, 1984
The aim of this issue of "Children in the Tropics" is to describe work that may be done by a motivated health team having only the strict minimum of material resources. While not a handbook of obstetrics, this text serves as a reminder of basic information and procedures workers must be able to perform. Following a review of the…
Descriptors: Birth, Developing Nations, Equipment, Medical Services
Huraux-Rendu, Christine; And Others – Children in the Tropics, 1991
This issue of Children in the Tropics analyzes key issues relating to protecting the health of newborn infants. Many of the suggestions offered concern rudimentary health care situations in developing countries. Key issues are addressed in four sections. The first section discusses the early care and first medical examination of infants born in…
Descriptors: Birth, Breastfeeding, Child Health, Communicable Diseases
Barra, H. Gensini; And Others – Children of the Tropics, 1996
Recognizing the importance of health care during the perinatal period, the topic for this issue of "Children in the Tropics" is prenatal development; this issue is intended for health educators for use in educating their clients about prenatal development, health care during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the needs of the mother and…
Descriptors: Birth, Breastfeeding, Foreign Countries, Health Services
Fenichel, Emily, Ed. – Zero to Three, 2002
"Zero to Three is a single focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Noting that because the perinatal periodfrom the later stages of pregnancy through the first 6 months of the infants lifeis a period of…
Descriptors: Child Health, Clinical Diagnosis, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Adjustment
Baumeister, Alfred A. – John F. Kennedy Center Research Progress, 1988
Efforts to prevent mental retardation have been encumbered by lack of scientific and technical knowledge, vague understanding of incidence and prevalence, and scarcity of resources to implement effective public policies. Scientific and social progress toward prevention has pursued a wavelike, erratic course, driven primarily by prevailing social,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Birth Weight, Disadvantaged Environment, Economically Disadvantaged
