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Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries

Monday, December 3, 2007

LA Times article on breastfeeding studies

Breast or bottle? No final answer yet - Los Angeles Times
Posted by annie at 2:55 PM

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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.

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  • 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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Blog Archive

  • ▼  2007 (168)
    • ►  12/23 - 12/30 (1)
      • Monitoring and Program evaluation
    • ►  12/16 - 12/23 (3)
      • Bangladesh from our View: When Nari Jibon acts as ...
      • Congressional Conferees Raise the Bar
      • Frustration With Charities and U.N. in Congo
    • ►  12/09 - 12/16 (4)
      • Nigerian ex-oil governor arrested
      • Relevant Links for Tomorrow's Presentation on Corr...
      • Bangladesh completes polio vaccination drive
      • Women, Infants, and Children: But What About the M...
    • ▼  12/02 - 12/09 (6)
      • U.S. Agency’s Slow Pace Endangers Foreign Aid
      • My Heart's In Accra
      • the video documentary shown in class today
      • Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts - Ne...
      • War and Refugees links
      • LA Times article on breastfeeding studies
    • ►  11/25 - 12/02 (10)
      • Feedback for Training and Supervision
      • Bangladesh newspaper article on Breastfeeding
      • Different Countries, Different Needs: The Role...
      • Preference for boy child increased in turmoil year...
      • The Challenge of Global Health
      • more on training in MCH: Games For Health
      • Training and
      • Training and Supervision
      • 1471-2458-7-133.pdf (application/pdf Object)
      • Politics and health and community participation
    • ►  11/18 - 11/25 (6)
      • The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health A...
      • Peanut Butter and Patents - Richard Cash's experie...
      • Chidi Chike Achebe: The Polio Epidemic in Nigeria:...
      • New Guidelines for Addressing Mental Health in Eme...
      • War's assault on the mind
      • Politics & Health and Community Participation
    • ►  11/11 - 11/18 (12)
      • The Bamako Initiative in Benin and Guinea: Improvi...
      • Cyclone Sidr Kills 35o in Bangladesh - New York Ti...
      • Safe abortion services virtually non-existent desp...
      • Uncovered stories and attention economics
      • sociodemographic correlates and barriers of matern...
      • feedback for 11/13
      • more upcoming events!
      • announcement from Dr. Brown
      • From origins to implications: key aspects in the d...
      • During one month of protests, military government ...
      • Links on Primary Health Care at www.networklearnin...
      • considering the role of media in MCH
    • ►  11/04 - 11/11 (11)
      • Poverty Analysis - More than a Pretty Picture: Usi...
      • Rwanda aims to become Africa's high-tech hub | csm...
      • EVENT - Expanding Equitable Access to Emergency Ob...
      • EVENT - Expanding Equitable Access to Emergency Ob...
      • Growth Chart controversies
      • Welcome to Global Voices
      • Bloggers find ways to speak out in Pakistan
      • Healthy City Project | Advancement Project Los Ang...
    • ►  10/28 - 11/04 (8)
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    • ►  10/14 - 10/21 (7)
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    • ►  09/30 - 10/07 (17)
    • ►  09/23 - 09/30 (18)
    • ►  09/16 - 09/23 (12)
    • ►  09/09 - 09/16 (13)
    • ►  09/02 - 09/09 (12)
    • ►  08/26 - 09/02 (1)
 

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)