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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
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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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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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      • the video documentary shown in class today
      • Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts - Ne...
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      • LA Times article on breastfeeding studies
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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)