Health and Nutrition Programmes

Adequate health and nutrition is essential for the healthy development of children. Families affected by illness may not be able to work or provide proper care.  Children in these situations are at risk of dropping out of school in order to care for a sick adult and work in order to replace lost income.  If the caretaker dies from the illness, the child risks a number of negative outcomes including living on the street or being placed in institutional care.

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Jennifer Peters, Eve Namisango, Ismael Ddumba-Nyanzi, Gwynne Zodrow,

This ex-post evaluation examines the sustainability of outcomes from USAID’s Sustainable, Comprehensive Responses for Vulnerable Children and their Families (SCORE) activity.

Jennifer S. Hermann, MN, Robin M. Featherstone, MLIS, Margaret L. Russell, PhD, Shannon E. MacDonald, PhD - American Journal of Preventive Medicine,

The purpose of this systematic review was to assess current knowledge regarding immunization coverage levels for children in the child welfare system and to determine barriers and supports to them utilizing immunization services.

Jennifer Werdenberg, et al - BMC Health Services Research,

The All Babies Count (ABC) initiative was a comprehensive health systems strengthening intervention designed to improve neonatal care in rural public facilities. This article describes ABC implementation outcomes, including development of a quality improvement (QI) change package.

Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, Tawanda Makusha, Deidre Blackie, Lenore Manderson, Katharine Hall and Mayke Huijbregts - South African Child Gauge 2018,

This chapter from the South African Child Gauge 2018 focuses on childcare and children’s caregivers in South Africa and aims to address the following questions: Who provides care for children? How does the state support or undermine care choices? Why and how should the state support caregivers?

M Mofizul Islam, Md Nuruzzaman Khan and Md Nazrul Islam Mondal - Public Health Nutrition,

This study investigated the impact of parental migration on nutritional disorders of left-behind children (LBC) in Bangladesh.

John Mark Vergara, Ladee Abigail Angeles, Ashley Angel Pagkalinawan, Maurice Villafranca - JPAIR Multidisciplinary Research,

This phenomenological study focused on the experiences, aspirations, and fears of orphaned children living in and outside the orphanage in the Philippines.

Lindsay G. Terrell, Asheley C. Skinner, Aditee P. Narayan - Pediatrics,

The aim of this study was to improve the mean time to initial foster care evaluation (TIE) from 32 to <7 days within 12 months for children in FC in Durham County, North Carolina.

Mary Mutete Muema, Edward Neyole, Ruth Simiyu - International Journal of Scientific Research and Management (IJSRM) ,

The objective of this study was to assess the nutritional status of orphaned and non-orphaned children in Kenya.

Jennifer S. Hermann, Kimberley A. Simmonds, Christopher A. Bell, Ellen Rafferty, Shannon E. MacDonald - Canadian Journal of Public Health,

The purpose of this study was to assess vaccine coverage for a cohort of children who have been in the care of the child welfare system compared to children in the general population in Alberta, Canada.

Jennifer Anne Fraser, Tara Flemington, Diep Thi Ngoc Doan, Van Minh Tu Hoang, Binh Thi Le Doan, Tuan Manh Ha - Journal of Children's Services,

The purpose of this paper is to validate measures of professional self-efficacy for detecting and responding to child abuse and neglect presentations, and then evaluate a clinical training programme for health professionals in a tertiary-level hospital in Vietnam.