Health care systems for pre-school children.
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This article is published in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.The article was published on 1976-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health care & Mass screening.read more
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Child health clincs and inverse care laws: evidence from longitudinal study of 1878 pre-school children.
P M Zinkin,C A Cox +1 more
TL;DR: In a longitudinal study it was intended that 1878 children should receive periodic developmental examinations from the age of 6 weeks to 3 years, and 683 home developmental examinations were carried out on 269 children who did not attend clinics.
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Health care utilisation in a new zealand birth cohort
TL;DR: There was a highly significant association between social background and the utilisation of preventive health care and factors found to reduce preventive health Care utilisation included: mother of non-European ethnic origin; single parent family; low maternal education; high residential mobility and large family size.
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Non-accidental injury in children. Memorandum of evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Violence in the family
TL;DR: Historically, in mediaeval times, the epoch of childhood was less clearly defined, and if babyhood was survived, all but the most favoured children became little adults and a convenient source of labour.
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Early Prevention and Intervention
TL;DR: The past forty years have seen in this country what amounts to a revolution in children’s health: they are taller, mature earlier and certain diseases have been virtually eliminated.
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A Comparison of Australian and Overseas Legislation Relating to The Rights of Children to Health Surveillance and Medical Care
Anne L. Blood,Graham V. Vimpani +1 more
TL;DR: The notion of legislation being required to ensure compliance with preventive health surveillance programmes in infancy, may with some validity, be questioned on the grounds that handicap in children occurs less frequently than in previous generations.
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Respiratory Disease in Young Adults: Influence of Early Childhood Lower Respiratory Tract Illness, Social Class, Air Pollution, and Smoking
TL;DR: Cigarette smoking was found to have the greatest effect on symptom prevalence, followed by a history of a lower respiratory tract illness under 2 years of age, and social class and air pollution had little effect.
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Confidential inquiry into 226 consecutive infant deaths.
I. D. G. Richards,H. T. Mcintosh +1 more
TL;DR: There was a high prevalence of `avoidable factors' in the group of deaths with no known predisposing organic disease, and the case histories suggest that deficiencies in both parental and medical care—often in combination—played an important role in many of the deaths investigated.
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Parents' experiences of child health centers. A study in the urban district of Uppsala.
TL;DR: Improved techniques for counselling parents can be achieved through a knowledge of the parents' experience of existing child health care, particularly with regard to contact with the staff, information received, and general organization, the author has studied.
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Child health in Sweden.
Stig Sjölin,Bo Vahlquist +1 more
TL;DR: On the basis of relevant vital statistics, some characteristic features of the health of Swedish children during the last two centuries are presented and analysed with regard to probable causative factors.
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Health and behaviour in four-year-old children.
Eva-Mari Köhler,Lennart Köhler +1 more
TL;DR: The perception of behaviour problems and the use of methods in upbringing were the same inChildren with newly detected health problems as in children with previously known health problems, and the implications for the Child Health Service are to identify and support risk groups in order to reduce parent‐child conflicts.