• Contraceptive use and family planning reduce unplanned pregnancy and prevent maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality ( 1 ), and may be particularly important for adolescent girls. (researchsquare.com)
  • The high maternal mortality and female malnutrition rates in the State party" (12). (womanstats.org)
  • This plan is being implemented and has had positive impacts so far in increasing life expectancy, decreasing maternal mortality and improving the basic health of girl children. (womanstats.org)
  • Unsafe abortion is a major contributor to maternal mortality. (fiapac.org)
  • One decade later, however, maternal mortality worldwide remains high. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • Through district system strengthening, integrated services, and community engagement interventions, the Saving Mothers, Giving Life initiative increased emergency obstetric care coverage and access to, and demand for, improved quality of care that led to rapid declines in district maternal and perinatal mortality. (ghspjournal.org)
  • South Sudanese women face myriad hardships and obstacles in their daily lives, including high levels of poverty, low levels of literacy, pronounced gender gaps in education, and the highest maternal mortality rate in the world-estimated at 2,054 deaths per 100,000 live births. (hrw.org)
  • The survey was designed to provide information on fertility trends, family planning knowledge and use, early childhood mortality, various indicators of maternal and child health and nutrition, HIV/AIDS, adult and maternal mortality, and malaria control programme indicators. (uct.ac.za)
  • The principal aim of the 2000 MDHS project is to provide up-to-date information on fertility and childhood mortality levels, nuptiality, fertility preferences, awareness and use of family planning methods, use of maternal and child health services, and knowledge and behaviours related to HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. (uct.ac.za)
  • Measure the level of adult and maternal mortality at the national level. (uct.ac.za)
  • CHILD HEALTH AND SURVIVAL Progress in Reducing Early Childhood Mortality. (uct.ac.za)
  • The World Health Organization defines adolescence as the period between the ages of 10 and 19 years. (wikipedia.org)
  • In accordance with the Principles governing relations between the World Health Organization and nongovernmental organizations , the Standing Committee reviewed collaboration with one-third of the nongovernmental organizations in official relations with WHO, and considered reports on the status of relations with organizations which were the subject of decision EB101(15), in order to determine the desirability of maintaining them in official relations. (who.int)
  • World Health Organization, 2006 ). (cambridge.org)
  • Approval occurred after publication of reassuring World Health Organization (WHO) studies regarding gynecologic cancer risk. (glowm.com)
  • The School Health and Nutrition Programme is the sum total of all health and nutrition activities that go into promoting the physical, social and the mental well being of the child. (who.int)
  • Its Programme of Action was the first and most comprehensive international policy document to promote the concepts of reproductive rights and reproductive health. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • The major recommendation of the Programme of Action -- that population programmes should provide integrated reproductive health services rather than just family planning -- reflects the women's organising, and the Programme has undoubtedly been a useful lobbying and advocacy tool for women's health activists around the world. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • 2 Its Programme of Action, endorsed by 179 countries and intended to establish international and national population policy for the following two decades, was the first and most comprehensive international policy document to promote the concepts of reproductive rights and reproductive health. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood Programme. (who.int)
  • Married adolescent girls are vulnerable to risky sexual and reproductive health outcomes. (researchsquare.com)
  • Adolescent girls who marry early are vulnerable to poor reproductive health outcomes including low contraception use and unwanted pregnancy due to low decision-making agency and communication with their husbands. (researchsquare.com)
  • Further, a PHC based approach also provides opportunities for communities to better access appropriate healthcare, which ensures more significant equity, efficiency, effectiveness, safety, and timeliness, empowers service users, and helps healthcare providers to achieve better health outcomes at lower costs. (dovepress.com)
  • Adolescent childbearing has adverse outcomes for teen mothers, their children, and society. (cdc.gov)
  • Aleman A, Colomar M, Colistro V, Tomaso G, Sosa C, Serruya S, de Francisco LA, Ciganda A, De Mucio B. Predicting severe maternal outcomes in a network of sentinel sites in Latin-American countries. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Association Between Early in Marriage Fertility Pressure from in-laws' and Family Planning Behaviors, Among Married Adolescent Girls in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. (researchsquare.com)
  • We examined the association of fertility pressure from in-laws' early in marriage with contraceptive use ever, parity, time until first birth, and couple communication about family size, among married adolescent girls. (researchsquare.com)
  • Married adolescent girls in India live in a gender inequitable context facing fertility pressures from their in-laws and extended family rooted in social norms. (researchsquare.com)
  • Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH) programs should include more focus on raising adolescent consciousness regarding contraceptive use and delayed first birth as potential choices in marriage, social norms related to unacceptability of fertility pressures from in-laws' and delayed first birth in marriage. (researchsquare.com)
  • However social norms related to family planning and gender equality (e.g. early marriage, son-preference, pro-fertility norms, and toxic masculine ideology leading to violence and reproductive coercion by husbands and in-laws') continue to hold back progress on these issues ( 12 , 13 ) with Bihar and Uttar Pradesh lagging more than India as a whole. (researchsquare.com)
  • They promoted the 'common ground' between women's groups, population organisations, donor agencies and governments by articulating a neo-Malthusian agenda to reduce fertility rates combined with a reproductive rights agenda. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • The Programme's recommendation -- that population programmes provide reproductive health services rather than just family planning -- assumes that women's fertility will not drop until children survive beyond infancy and young childhood, until men also take responsibility for contraception, and until women have the right to control their fertility and enough political power to secure that right. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • Female education affects family health and nutrition, agricultural productivity, and fertility, yet there is a wide gender gap in education. (blogspot.com)
  • The definitions of maternal drug abuse and newborn withdrawal syndrome have been difficult to standardize (see Background ). (medscape.com)
  • This report based on the State of the World's Fathers(SOWF) report, which captures data policies, programmes, and research related to boys and men's participation in caregiving and fatherhood, maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH), and violence prevention, brings together the components related to or advancing child rights and gender equality. (fatherhood.gov)
  • Teenage pregnancy, also known as adolescent pregnancy, is pregnancy in a female adolescent under the age of 20. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, in these societies, early pregnancy may combine with malnutrition and poor health care to cause medical problems. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the United States, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 included the objective of reducing the number of young Black and Latina single mothers on welfare, which became the foundation for teenage pregnancy prevention in the United States and the founding of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, now known as Power to Decide. (wikipedia.org)
  • Health consequences include not yet being physically ready for pregnancy and childbirth leading to complications and malnutrition as the majority of adolescents tend to come from lower-income households. (wikipedia.org)
  • Higher maternal intake of omega-3 PUFAs during pregnancy was associated with fewer cases of hitting and violent shaking and leaving the child alone at home, implying a lower risk of infant maltreatment. (cambridge.org)
  • Given the stigma of substance abuse during pregnancy, lack of disclosure by the mother to her health provider is common because such damaging information could ultimately lead to the separation of mother and child. (medscape.com)
  • Mothers with a previous mental health admission, with a low skill level, with Aboriginal status, or who smoked during pregnancy were significantly more likely to have an infant with neonatal withdrawal syndrome. (medscape.com)
  • Pregnancy and addiction should be treated as public health issues - not criminal justice issues. (fwhc.org)
  • Purpose-- Prime Time , a youth development intervention, aims to reduce pregnancy risk among adolescent girls seeking clinic services who are at high risk for pregnancy. (cdc.gov)
  • Conclusions-- Preventing early pregnancy among high-risk adolescents requires multifaceted, sustained approaches. (cdc.gov)
  • Researchers may wish to review programs that have been effective among teens at preventing other high-risk behaviors, such as drug and alcohol use, to identify health behavior modification strategies that are effective with that age group. (fwhc.org)
  • The current study addresses this gap in the literature by making use of a monozygotic twin difference scores approach to explore the association between IQ and a variety of outcome measures, including general health, substance use, relationships, sexual behaviors, educational attainment, economic well-being, and criminal justice contacts. (bvsalud.org)
  • Family processes as predictors of antisocial behaviors among adolescents from urban, single-mother Malay families in Malaysia. (bsl.nl)
  • This article focuses on women who have opted to be mothers on their own by choice in the UK and Spain, and how their access to assisted reproductive technologies in the National Health Service was affected because they were 35 years old or older, forcing them to go to private clinics for their treatment. (mdpi.com)
  • Within the effectiveness framework, the most effective methods are discussed first, while addressing the user's own concerns, preferences and reproductive goals. (fiapac.org)
  • Therefore effective methods for contraception and safe and acceptable methods for termination of unwanted pregnancies are prerequisites for reproductive health, for gender equality and for the empowerment of women. (fiapac.org)
  • The Act further directs that where feasible, ATSDR shall develop methods to determine the health effects of substances in combination with other substances with which they are commonly found. (cdc.gov)
  • METHODS: We conducted a prospective cohort study which followed individuals diagnosed with a first episode of opioid use disorder who accessed substance use services between September 2015 and May 2020 for up to 12 months, using anonymised electronic health records. (bvsalud.org)
  • From 2015 to 2021, an estimated 14 percent of adolescent girls and young women globally reported giving birth before age 18. (wikipedia.org)
  • Family environmental factors have been implicated in the development of delinquency and adolescent psychiatric disorders. (bsl.nl)
  • This study demonstrated the role of age (younger adolescent and older mother), family history of crime and family environment beyond socio-economic status in psychiatric morbidity among female juvenile detainees. (bsl.nl)
  • It violates the rights of girls, with life-threatening consequences in terms of sexual and reproductive health, and poses high development costs for communities, particularly in perpetuating the cycle of poverty. (wikipedia.org)
  • Action Canada for Population and Development - is an advocacy organization that focuses on sexual rights and health, reproductive rights and health, human rights and international migration. (fwhc.org)
  • The Youth Family Planning Policy Scorecard evaluates the favorability of 28 current national policy and program environments for youth access to sexual and reproductive health services. (prb.org)
  • Governments around the world are increasingly creating policies to formalize the rights of adolescents and young people to access sexual and reproductive health services. (prb.org)
  • In 2013 she was recognized by the Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Center for her lifelong contribution to sexual and reproductive health, and in 1999, she received the Margaret Vaughn award from the Maine Family Planning for her outstanding contribution to sexuality education. (uma.edu)
  • Pol ticas de desarticulaci n de la subjetividad sexual y de g nero practicadas en la c rcel de Villa Devoto durante ltima dictadura militar argentina (1976-1983). (4lima.de)
  • Vasconcelos P, Paúl C, Serruya SJ, Ponce de León RG, Nobre P. A systematic review of sexual health and subjective well-being in older age groups. (bvsalud.org)
  • The 2000 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey (MDHS) is a nationally represen-tative sample survey covering 14,213 house-holds, 13,220 women age 15-49, and 3,092 men age 15-54. (uct.ac.za)
  • 11,12 Instead, largely because of federal funding policies over the last decade, a growing proportion of students have been receiving education that stresses abstinence-only until marriage, and omits medically accurate and developmentally appropriate reproductive health information. (guttmacher.org)
  • Planned Parenthood Federation of America: Although PPFA 'appreciates' the committee's effort to address sex education, Congress 'needs to do more to ensure that all our children get medically accurate information necessary to protect their health,' Planned Parenthood President Gloria Feldt said, adding that '[c]omprehensive [sex education] programs work best' (Planned Parenthood release, 6/26). (fwhc.org)
  • CDC/National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion/Division of Reproductive Health, 1600 Clifton Rd., NE, MS K-21, Atlanta, GA 30333. (cdc.gov)
  • Comprehensive public health surveillance of hemophilia and related disorders is important to monitor health indicators to inform prevention strategies. (cdc.gov)
  • Primary health care (PHC) services are a vital component in the prevention and control of long-term NCDs, particularly in LMICs, where the health infrastructure and hospital services may be under strain. (dovepress.com)
  • The review finds that a PHC service approach, which deals with health in a comprehensive way, including the promotion, prevention, and control of diseases, can be useful in both high and low resource settings. (dovepress.com)
  • At the same time, widespread support for including information on contraception and STD protection in sex education curricula has been documented among American adults, voters, parents, students, teachers and health professionals, nationally and in diverse regions of the country. (guttmacher.org)
  • Des stratégies appropriées reposant sur les principes de promotion de la santé ont contribué à augmenter la prévalence de la contraception chez les femmes mariées de 49,0 % en 1989 à 73,8 % en 2006. (who.int)
  • When the same 47 reporting areas are compared, the number of abortions decreased during 1996--2001, then slightly increased in 2002 and again decreased in 2003 and 2004. (cdc.gov)
  • The Senate Finance Committee yesterday passed a welfare reform bill, known as the Work, Opportunity and Responsibility for Kids Act of 2002, that includes funding for both abstinence-only and 'abstinence-first' sex education programs, the Washington Times reports. (fwhc.org)
  • ABSTRACT In Saudi Arabia, local interpretations of Islamic laws and social norms have a negative impact on the health and well-being of women. (who.int)
  • The Committee considered first the 42 organizations listed in the Annex, then reports on collaboration received after completion of the document from the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, International Pediatric Association, International Women's Health Coalition and International Union for Health Promotion and Education. (who.int)
  • This was largely as a result of the organising and lobbying of various women's health groups. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • The underlying conditions that determine women's health and their ability to make decisions about their childbearing are deteriorating. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • ACCESS/Women's Health Rights Coalition - based in Oakland, CA - operates a Latina Hotline at 888-442-2237 serving California, USA. (fwhc.org)
  • American Medical Women's Association - over 10,000 women physicians and medical students dedicated to the care of the woman patient and serving as the unique voice for women's health. (fwhc.org)
  • Ash Tree Publishing - Herbal Medicine Resources for women's health and wellbeing. (fwhc.org)
  • The question of whether the mere presence of the chemical in maternal serum results in fetal damage needs to be answered. (medscape.com)
  • Although the full spectrum of physical damage that drugs of abuse can cause cannot be documented, one thing is certain: the effect of maternal drug use on fetal brain development is the most critical and most studied effect. (medscape.com)
  • Family violence is a social and public health issue across the world for many populations and affects many different types of people, for example, children, women, and vulnerable adults. (fatherhood.gov)
  • Classical studies indicate that mental health clinicians are more likely to attribute traits associated with healthy adults to men rather than women. (netce.com)
  • This hormone is produced by the syncytiotrophoblast beginning on the day of implantation, and it rises in both the maternal blood stream and the maternal urine fairly quickly. (medscape.com)
  • This paper reviews the family planning programmes in the Islamic Republic of Iran and their achievements during the last 4 decades and discusses the principles of health promotion and theories of behaviour change which may explain these achievements. (who.int)
  • résumé Les programmes de planification familiale instaurés en République islamique d'Iran en 1966 ont rencontré un succès limité. (who.int)
  • Le présent article examine les programmes de planification familiale en République islamique d'Iran et leurs réalisations au cours des quarante dernières années. (who.int)
  • Major UK funding programmes, including the National Institute for Health Research and the Medical Research Council, have encouraged and supported qualitative and mixed (combined qualitative and quantitative) method studies. (bmj.com)
  • The CDC Surveillance Coordination Group has established a steering committee that is charged with the development of a broad range of case definitions for noninfectious conditions (e.g., environmental or occupational conditions, chronic diseases, adverse reproductive health events, and injuries). (cdc.gov)
  • Being the child of an adolescent parent carries adverse social and health risks including delays in cognitive development, behavior problems, school failure, and increased likelihood of adolescent childbearing [5]. (cdc.gov)
  • These figures indicate that many women do not have access to essential and emergency obstetric care, let alone access to more comprehensive reproductive health services. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • Indeed, health services in many countries are in terminal decline. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • With some trepidation, we delivered our thoughts about the place of qualitative research in health services research (HSR) using a Socratic dialogue-between a fictitious director of a health services research unit and a more junior sociologist. (bmj.com)
  • Examine basic indicators of maternal and child health and welfare in Malawi, including nutritional status, use of antenatal and maternity services, treatment of recent episodes of childhood illness, and use of immunisation services. (uct.ac.za)
  • Though this assertion is contested by some scholars, there is the general consensus that FHHs face obvious limits in accessing productive assets, credit, health care and agricultural services (Buvinic and Gupta, 1997). (ukessays.com)
  • Hennis AJM, Coates A, Del Pino S, Ghidinelli M, Gomez Ponce de Leon R, Bolastig E, Castellanos L, Oliveira E Souza R, Luciani S. COVID-19 and inequities in the Americas: lessons learned and implications for essential health services. (bvsalud.org)
  • We investigated the role of social deprivation and comorbid mental health diagnoses in predicting re-engagement with substance use services or contact with crisis and inpatient services for individuals with opioid use disorder in secondary mental health care in inner-city London. (bvsalud.org)
  • RESULTS: Comorbid mental health diagnoses were associated with higher contact rates with crisis/inpatient services among people with opioid use disorder: incidence rate ratios (IRR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were 3.91 (1.74-9.14) for non-opioid substance use comorbidity, 8.92 (1.81-64.4) for a single comorbid mental health diagnosis, and 15.9 (5.89-47.5) for multiple comorbid mental health diagnoses. (bvsalud.org)
  • Social deprivation and comorbid mental health diagnoses were not associated with re-engagement with substance use services. (bvsalud.org)
  • CONCLUSION: Comorbid substance and mental health difficulties amongst people with an opioid use disorder led to earlier and more frequent contact with crisis/inpatient mental health services during the first 12 months of follow up. (bvsalud.org)
  • This course is designed for social workers, psychologists, therapists, and mental health counselors of the interdisciplinary team who want to gain an overview of feminist therapy/counseling. (netce.com)
  • accommodations of such entity where such individual poses a direct threat to the health or safety of others,' § 12182(b)(3). (justia.com)
  • The guiding principle of this policy is that optimum health and nutritional status of children is a determining factor for effective learning. (who.int)
  • In the rapid evacuation, some family members were separated, including children, and many Afghans had to leave behind essential medications, glasses, and other health care necessities. (mn.us)
  • and the 2008 Child Act provisions that protect children under 18 from early and forced marriages and guarantee them the right to non-discrimination, health, education, life, survival and development, an opinion, and protection from torture, degrading treatment, and abuse. (hrw.org)
  • Lack of resources and pressures on time and energies put enormous constraints on the ability of women to maintain their own health and nutrition as well as that of their children. (blogspot.com)
  • Public health initiatives may be required to increase clinician and public awareness of unconscious biases towards minority and vulnerable populations to ensure timely AVR for everyone. (bvsalud.org)
  • CDC and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) have established a policy that requires state health departments to report cases of selected diseases ( Table 1 ) to CDC's National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) (1,2). (cdc.gov)
  • Recommendations for Establishing a National Maternal Near-miss Surveillance System in Latin America and the Caribbean. (bvsalud.org)
  • Olivier's family said police responded inappropriately to a mental-health crisis and racially profiled Olivier, who was Black. (state.gov)
  • During 1996, for instance, family planning providers intimidated and humiliated indigenous, poor and rural women in some towns in the Peruvian Andes into being surgically sterilised after offers of food and clothing had not persuaded them. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • NetCE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. (netce.com)
  • Women's economic capabilities, and in particular their ability to manage family welfare, are being threatened. (blogspot.com)
  • A hundred female juvenile detainees in a Malaysian rehabilitation center (12-17 years-old) were assessed using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview for Child and Adolescent and the Family Environment Scale. (bsl.nl)
  • Future larger studies are needed to clarify familial-genetic factors that may impact strategies for family-centric mental health interventions. (bsl.nl)
  • Family environments of adolescent sex offenders and other juvenile delinquents. (bsl.nl)
  • In order to provide adequate nutrition to the poorest members of society who are mostly women, the Ministry of Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare established a food bank where food rations are distributed to the needy. (womanstats.org)
  • Source of data: National Health Information Analytic Center, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia http://moh.am/?section=static_pages/index&id=625&subID=824,29. (who.int)
  • After a change and update in 2016, the NHIRD is maintained and regulated by the Data Science Centre of the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Taiwan. (e-epih.org)
  • In the model, there are a series of nested systems, with the child (including his or her particular combination of genes, temperament, age, health, physical appearance, etc.) at the center. (pressbooks.pub)
  • by Center for Reproductive Law & Policy (U.S.). International Program. (who.int)
  • The bill, which is a revision of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act that is set to expire in September, would continue to provide $50 million each year in funding for abstinence-only education programs, a provision that is also included in the House version of the bill (HR 4737) that was passed last month (Wetzstein, Washington Times, 6/27). (fwhc.org)
  • Policymakers and program planners use these data to improve the health and well-being of women and infants. (cdc.gov)
  • American College of Nurse-Midwives - promotes health and well-being of women and infants support of the profession of midwifery. (fwhc.org)
  • Electronic health records (EHRs) can provide researchers with extraordinary opportunities for population-based research. (e-epih.org)
  • The commitment and determination of the School Health and Nutrition working group, support staff and all those who participated in developing this policy document, is greatly appreciated. (who.int)
  • Public Health Service (PHS) Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals applies to the use of live, vertebrate animals in any activity supported or conducted by the PHS. (asp.org)
  • Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) of the National Institutes of Health implements, interprets, and evaluates compliance of the PHS Policy, negotiates Animal Welfare assurances, and educates those receiving PHS support. (asp.org)
  • These guidelines build upon the ASP's 2001 Policy Statement "Principles for the Ethical Treatment of Non-Human Primates" which states that ASP members "should make use of information on a species' natural history to improve management and enrich environments, because physical and psychological well-being are essential not only to the health of the animal but also to the validity of the research results. (asp.org)
  • The contributions of the organizations focused mainly on support of WHO's work relating to mental and neurological disorders, women's and adolescent health, reproductive health, nutrition and food security, rehabilitation and occupational health. (who.int)
  • We gratefully acknowledge research support from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development through grant R01 HD044761-03. (cdc.gov)
  • The Access Project - Information to improve access to complete health care for all low-income, limited English proficiency, immigrants or refugees. (fwhc.org)
  • An important research focus involves testing youth development interventions offered through clinic settings, where access to high-risk adolescents is plentiful and few efforts have emphasized a dual approach of building protective factors while addressing risk. (cdc.gov)
  • Opioid use and subsequent access to care is often shaped by co-occurring issues faced by people using opioids, such as deprivation, mental ill-health, and other forms of substance use. (bvsalud.org)
  • Overall, the World Economic Forum ranks South Asia and several Arab nations among the lowest in terms of economic participation, economic opportunity, political empowerment, educational attainment and health and well-being. (riazhaq.com)
  • The risk of maternal death for girls under age 15 in low and middle income countries is higher than for women in their twenties. (wikipedia.org)
  • Further research to assess knowledge, attitudes and practices towards health care of Saudi men and women is recommended. (who.int)
  • Indeed, many positive trends in the health of women the world over, from North to South, East to West, have been reversed over the past decade, while reproductive health and rights remain threatened, particularly for poorer women, migrant women and women of colour. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • Provides a more comprehensive accounting of the cumulative harms experienced by women, poor people, people of color, and pregnant people in today's health and social welfare landscape. (scholars.org)
  • Women of the world : formal laws and policies affecting their reproductive lives. (who.int)
  • This report examines this problem, and reinforces studies by experts and women's rights groups in South Sudan that indicate that child marriage has a significant negative impact on women and girl's realization of key human rights, including their rights to health and education, physical integrity and the right to marry only when they are able and willing to give their free consent. (hrw.org)
  • Based on extensive interviews with 87 girls and women in three states between March and October 2012-and with government officials, traditional leaders, health care workers, legal and women's rights experts, teachers, prison officials, and NGO, UN, and donor representatives-this report describes the severe consequences of this practice, and the risks that women and girls face when they resist or try to leave these marriages. (hrw.org)
  • I acknowledge the contributions made by various experts in education, health, community development, nutrition, agriculture and other fields. (who.int)
  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal Welfare Act and Animal Regulations. (asp.org)
  • This report provides updated uniform criteria * for state health department personnel to use when reporting the nationally notifiable infectious diseases listed in Part 1 of this report. (cdc.gov)
  • The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) mandates that the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) shall assess whether adequate information on health effects is available for the priority hazardous substances. (cdc.gov)
  • Discusses the characteristics of a donor-funded internship program for undergraduate students interested in reproductive rights, health, and justice at Tulane University's Newcomb Institute. (scholars.org)
  • 2013). Negative maternal and paternal parenting styles as predictors of children's behavioral problems: Moderating effects of the child's sex. (bsl.nl)
  • The outlined objectives and strategies will be subject to regular reviews in order to keep abreast with new trends in health and nutrition. (who.int)
  • The current HIV and AIDS situation adds to the complexity of health and nutrition issues in education. (who.int)
  • As a human progresses through life, they transition from a zygote to a crying infant, from a babbling toddler to a curious kindergartner, from a quick-learning grade school student to a broody adolescent, from an independence-seeking emerging adult to a mature adult, and later, to an elderly senior. (pressbooks.pub)
  • A closer look at the ways in which neo-liberalism has impacted upon women's reproductive rights may suggest avenues for more fruitful alliances with other social movements in the future. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • The ASP endorses social housing as the foundation of welfare for captive nonhuman primates who are members of species that live socially in the wild. (asp.org)
  • The position that social housing should be the default housing for nonhuman primates is based upon the scientific literature, which establishes that socially-housed primates demonstrate wellbeing that is superior to that of their singly-housed counterparts, and that introduction of singly housed primates into a compatible social setting improves their welfare by a variety of behavioral and physiological measures. (asp.org)
  • Given the common co-occurrence of mental health and substance use disorders among those who use opioids, a better understanding of their wider needs (such as social, financial and other non-medical concerns) will ensure they are supported in their treatment journeys. (bvsalud.org)
  • Arabia and its relation to public health. (who.int)
  • Jesus designed the two sacraments of baptism and Eucharist, wherein He nurtures us in Christian life on the pattern of embodied maternal love in order to evoke the symbolic value of nurturance in the maternal-infant relation which He enjoyed with His mother Mary, and that every mother can share with her child. (ezzo.info)
  • In October 1990, in collaboration with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, CDC published Case Definitions for Public Health Surveillance (MMWR 1990;39{No. RR-13}), which, for the first time, provided uniform criteria for reporting cases. (cdc.gov)
  • However, before 1990, the usefulness of such data was limited by the lack of uniform case definitions for public health surveillance. (cdc.gov)
  • In October 1990, in collaboration with CSTE, CDC published Case Definitions for Public Health Surveillance (4), which, for the first time, provided uniform criteria for reporting cases to increase the specificity of reporting and improve the comparability of diseases reported from different geographic areas. (cdc.gov)
  • American Menopause Foundation - independent not-for-profit health organization providing support and assistance on all issues concerning menopause. (fwhc.org)
  • Pan American Health Organization. (bvsalud.org)
  • Public Health Institute - Annual hospital report. (who.int)
  • Families must not be needlessly separated based on medical and public health misinformation. (fwhc.org)
  • The study was carried out in 2012 with a probability and representative sample of 656 adolescents aged between 11 and 17 years who were enrolled at public schools located in the extreme South of the city of São Paulo. (fatherhood.gov)
  • The purpose of an Interaction Profile is to evaluate data on the toxicology of the "whole" priority mixture (if available) and on the joint toxic action of the chemicals in the mixture in order to recommend approaches for the exposure-based assessment of the potential hazard to public health. (cdc.gov)
  • State and local public health officials rely on health-care providers, laboratories, and other public health personnel to report the occurrence of notifiable diseases to state and local health departments. (cdc.gov)
  • Without explicit criteria for identifying cases for public health surveillance purposes, state health departments and individual practitioners often applied different criteria for reporting similar cases (3). (cdc.gov)
  • Public Health, 97(8):1401-1402. (who.int)
  • BMC Public Health, 7:106. (who.int)
  • Am J Public Health, Community Health, 56(1):66-71. (who.int)
  • The Danish Twin Registry (Scand J Public Health. (lu.se)