indicator of health. However, parents focused on the negative physical implications of overweight while children focused on the …Family interactions about weight and health take place against the backdrop of the wider social discourse relating to … the obesity epidemic. Parents (and children) negotiate complex and often contradictory messages in constructing a set of …

Many global health practitioners are currently reaffirming the importance of recruiting and retaining effective … community health workers (CHWs) in order to achieve major public health goals. This raises policy-relevant questions about why …

Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are one approach to addressing the health workforce crisis in developing … countries. BRAC, a large Bangladeshi NGO, a pioneer in this area, uses female volunteer CHWs as core workers in its health … its community-based mother, newborn and child health interventions. However, the program experienced suboptimal …

Elder immigrants face multiple barriers to accessing health care and other basic services. The Community Ambassador … examine the roles of ambassadors in ecologic context as community health workers (CHWs) for clients undergoing late … relationships with elder clients and elders' children, rather than simply working in dyads with elder clients themselves. In the …

The use of community health workers to administer prompt treatments is gaining popularity in most sub-Saharan African … associated with the effectiveness of case management strategies. What determines community health workers' performance is still … confront it with the reality, we conducted a study in Burkina Faso, where in 2010 health authorities have implemented a …

Information and communication technologies are widely used in health and social care settings to replace previous means …, conducted between 2005 and 2007, which examined how child health and welfare professionals use electronic documents in Finland …

short- and long-term health outcomes in developing countries. Prior research has primarily focused on the impact of single … population health. In this paper, we present one of the first investigations of the impact of small and moderate disasters on … childhood morbidity, physical growth, and immunizations by combining household data on over 80,000 children from three waves of …

Diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria are the largest contributors to childhood mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. While … underpin household recognition and response to child diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. …

associated with child health similarly across all Hispanic children or whether associations differ by maternal nativity or … effects of total years in poverty, material hardship, and lack of health insurance on Hispanic children's health status at age … with declining health status among young Hispanic children. Interaction effects indicate that early childhood poverty has …