The increasing proliferation of mobiles offers possibilities for improving health systems in developing countries. A … case in point is Tanzania which has piloted a mobile phone-based Management Information System (MIS) for the control of … neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) where village health workers (VHWs) were given mobile phones with web-based software to test …

The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe but its application to children has seen relatively … little discussion. What could be meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper. Among other things, I … exclusion of children. The second main theme is the use of the concept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast to Europe it …

) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …

excluded, with the exception of support for parents with mental health problems, which might indirectly affect the mental … health of their children. Overall 47 studies were identified. There was considerable variability in their quality, with a …-income countries for investment in interventions to promote mental health and well-being. We focused on areas of interest to the …

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …, indicating transmission through cultural factors. We find that, when both adoptive parents are overweight, the likelihood of an …

Children who have been sexually abused may suffer from emotional and behavioural difficulties. Recent research found …

experiences of online risk among children, the affordances of SNS lend support to this possibility, attracting much policy and … public concern. The present article examines whether the use of such services increases the risks that children and young … people encounter by analyzing data from a random stratified sample of approximately 1000 internet-using children aged 9 …