News tagged with child health

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Abused children appear likely to have mental disorders as young adults

Abuse and neglect during childhood appear to be associated with increased rates of mood, anxiety and substance use disorders among young adults, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Peer pressure builds more latrines than financial assistance

Government subsidies persuade some people to change habits, but social shame works even better, suggests a recent study of efforts to reduce elevated childhood death and disease rates blamed on the microbial pathogens that ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Mom goes back to work, family OK

Easing the maternal guilt associated with mothers returning to work, University at Albany health economist Pinka Chatterji and co-researchers Sara Markowitz and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn recently released the results of a study ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Learning through unstructured play helps kids develop

Roughhousing, or tossing your children around on purpose, can be a hard sell to many parents. We worry our kids will get hurt. We don't want rowdy behavior carrying over into the classroom, especially in schools with no-touching ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Third-hand smoke: Another reason to quit smoking

Need another reason to add "Quit Smoking" to your New Year's resolutions list? How about the fact that even if you choose to smoke outside of your home or only smoke in your home when your children are not there - thinking ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 29, 2008 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (14) | comments 17

New approach suggested for monitoring child health in developing countries

In a paper published in the January issue of the journal Economics and Human Biology, a team of applied economists including William A. Masters, a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sad mothers have small babies

Clinical depression and anxiety during pregnancy results in smaller babies that are more likely to die in infancy, according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Public Health. The study, which focuse ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Smoking during pregnancy may harm the child's motor control and coordination

Women who smoke during pregnancy run the risk of adversely affecting their children’s coordination and physical control according to a new study from Orebro University, Sweden, published in the Journal of Epidemiology an ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hitting early, swine flu claims 11 more kids in US

(AP) -- As the swine flu outbreak strikes the U.S. early and hard, health officials note a worrisome number of child deaths and warn that supplies of vaccine will remain scarce for at least the next couple ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When will children disobey parents? It depends on the rule

As all parents know, children often want to do exactly what their parents don't want them to do. In three areas that children often consider parts of their personal domain -- clothing, friendship, and leisure activities -- ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study: Personality traits associated with stress and worry can be hazardous to your health

(PhysOrg.com) -- Personality traits associated with chronic worrying can lead to earlier death, at least in part because these people are more likely to engage in unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, according ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study: 2 million babies and mothers die at birth

(AP) -- More than 2 million babies and mothers die worldwide each year from childbirth complications, outnumbering child deaths from malaria and HIV/AIDS, according to a study.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Witnessing Arrests May Increase Stress Risk in Children: Study

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Illinois at Chicago study says children in the nation's child welfare system who witnessed the arrest of a household member may have been psychologically traumatized by the arrest.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

International formula milk marketing code mired in 3 decades of dispute

An international marketing code for formula milk, intended to foster global cooperation among governments, industry, and aid agencies, has instead been mired in three decades of often bitter dispute, claims a child nutrition ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Child health may suffer in strong economy

A short-term economic boom is not always a good thing for children in developing nations, according to a new study in the Journal of Political Economy. The study found that when Colombia's coffee trade suddenly booms, illnes ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0