Paediatrics and international child health
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Paediatr Int Child Health · Feb 2015
Case ReportsStrongyloidiasis in a healthy 8-year-old girl in north-eastern USA.
A previously healthy, white 8-year-old girl presented with a 1-week history of abdominal pain and vomiting after a trip to a lake in Pennsylvania, north-eastern USA. There was marked dehydration. ⋯ Charcot-Leyden crystals were also detected. The child received oral ivermectin and made a complete recovery.
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Paediatr Int Child Health · Feb 2015
Pandemic influenza A vs seasonal influenza A in hospitalized children in Athens.
Data on pandemic H1N1 influenza (pH1N1) virus infection in hospitalised children are limited. ⋯ Clinical manifestations were similar between pH1N1 and seasonal influenza, and the pandemic virus did not appear to cause more severe disease in hospitalised children.
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Paediatr Int Child Health · Jan 2015
ReviewPakistan and the Millennium Development Goals for Maternal and Child Health: progress and the way forward.
The world has made substantial progress in reducing maternal and child mortality, but many countries are projected to fall short of achieving their Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 targets. The major objective of this paper is to examine progress in Pakistan in reducing maternal and child mortality and malnutrition over the last two decades. ⋯ Progress in addressing key social determinants such as poverty, female education and empowerment has also been slow and unregulated population growth has further compromised progress. There is a need to integrate the various different sectors and programmes to achieve the desired results effectively and efficiently as many of the determinants and influencing factors are outside the health sector.
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Paediatr Int Child Health · Jan 2015
Survival of children with sickle cell disease in the comprehensive newborn screening programme in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Children in developing countries with sickle cell disease SCD have high rates of mortality, especially in some parts of Africa. ⋯ Despite an effective ongoing comprehensive screening programme, mortality from SCD in Minas Gerais is still high. To decrease mortality rates, socio-economic development and SCD education programmes for health professionals and families are required.
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Overweight and obesity in childhood is an increasing problem for the less affluent countries of the world. The prevalence of overweight/obesity varies, not only between countries but across countries, depending on the environments in which children live. ⋯ Affluence also brings the ability to purchase commercial, prepared 'fast-food' items, leading too often to disadvantageous effects on children's diets. The solutions to this rising tide of overweight/obesity seem to lie with broad-based programmes initiated at central government level or at more local community level but which are designed to reach across and throughout societies to enable families and communities to modify the unhealthy lifestyle which too often accompanies increasing affluence and development.