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Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Important websites and Advocacy groups

Advocacy groups and important websites

BFHI international

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - Breastfeeding resources

Healthy Children Project, Inc. - Breastfeeding resources for health professionals

Innocenti Declaration on the Protection, Promotion, and Support of Breastfeeding, Innocenti 15

International Code on the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes

International Lactation Consultant Association

La Leche League International

Lamaze International

National Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy

Office on Women's Health - HHS Blueprint for Action on Breastfeeding

UNICEF Data: Breastfeeding Statistics

UNICEF Breastfeeding: Foundation for a healthy future

United States Breastfeeding Committee - Breastfeeding in the United States: A National Agenda

United States Breastfeeding Committee - Publications

United States Fund for UNICEF

Wellstart International - Breastfeeding resources for health professionals

World Health Organization - Breastfeeding

World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (conveners of World Breastfeeding Week, August 1-7)





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Overview

Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries is a graduate level course at the Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. 2007 marks the 30th year that Dr. Roy Brown and Dr. Nicholas Cunningham have provided this survey of the major health issues in the life stages of women and children of lesser developed countries and of the public health responses to these issues.

Current MCH Articles

MCH Links

  • Basic Publications regarding child survival activities
  • CU Department of Population and Family Health
  • Maternal and Child Health Journal
  • Maternal and Child Health Library
  • The American Academy of Pediatrics
  • The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  • UNFPA Population Issues
  • United Nations Volunteer
  • USAID Maternal and Child Health
  • World Health Organization

Course Reading List

  • Just and Lasting Change
  • The Myth of Development
  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed
  • My Name is Today
  • Health Care of Women and Children in Developing Countries
  • Textbook of International Health
  • The State of the World's Children Report 2006
  • Maternal and Child Health: Programs, Problems and Policy in Public Health
  • Helping the Children: A Practical Handbook for Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
  • Health Care for Children: What's Right, What's Wrong, What's Next
  • The Complete Book of Breastfeeding
  • Expecting Trouble: The Myth of Prenatal Care in America
  • Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: The BRAC Strategy
  • Communit-based Health Care: Lessons from Bangladesh
  • Questioning the Solution: the Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival
  • Where There is no Psychiatrist

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Labels

  • 0-5 mortality (1)
  • breastfeeding (2)
  • CBPR (2)
  • child mortality (2)
  • cool stuff (2)
  • course announcements (9)
  • empowerment (2)
  • Events (1)
  • fathers (2)
  • food aid (2)
  • food supplementation (4)
  • growth monitoring (3)
  • malnutrition (1)
  • media for development (1)
  • microfinance (1)
  • monetization (1)
  • ORT (1)
  • policy (2)
  • poverty (1)
  • pregnancy (2)
  • prevention (1)
  • statistics (3)
  • vaccines (1)
  • violence (1)