community
Overview page. Subjects: Social Sciences — Arts and Humanities.
Many sociological and anthropological definitions exist, but most tend to privilege some combination of small-scale, relative boundedness, strong affective ties, traditionalism, and...
Neonatal Tetanus in Rural and Displaced Communities in the East Nile Province
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
April 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
A retrospective neonatal tetanus survey was conducted among rural and displaced communities in the East Nile Province in the Sudan. The results showed that neonatal tetanus was a major...
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Acute Respiratory Tract Infection: a Community-Based Intervention Study in Malaysia
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
June 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
A community-based intervention trial was conducted in Kelantan, Malaysia with the aim of reducing severe acute respiratory tract (ARI) infection in children. Interventions included health...
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Efficacy and Acceptability of Different Modes of Oxygen Administration in Children: Implications for a Community Hospital
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
February 1997; p ublished online February 1997 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
Eighty under-five children admitted in the pediatric ward with acute respiratory distress requiring oxygen inhalation were prospectively studied. Oxygen was administered to all the children...
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Acute Respiratory Infections in Children: A Community-based Longitudinal Study in Rural Bangladesh
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
June 1997; p ublished online June 1997 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
A community-based longitudinal study conducted in Matlab, a rural area in Bangladesh, investigated acute respiratory infections (ARI) among children. A cohort of 696 children under 5 years...
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Ankle clonus and thiocyanate, linamarin, and inorganic sulphate excretion in school children in communities with konzo, Mozambique
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
June 1999; p ublished online June 1999 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
We examined 397 school children for ankle clonus in five communities in three district affected by konzo, spastic paraparesis associated with cassava consumption. From a subsample of 131...
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Absolute Values or Z Scores of Mid-upper Arm Circumference to Identify Wasting? Evaluation in a Community as Well as a Clinical Sample of Under Fives from Nchelenge, Zambia
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
February 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
The purpose of the study was to compare the use of absolute cut off values of the mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) with age– and sex-adjusted z scores of the MUAC in the identification of...
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Immunodiagnoses of Community-acquired Pneumonia in Childhood
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
August 1997; p ublished online August 1997 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
SUMMARY
A diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia requires isolation of the pathogen from blood, lung or tracheal aspirate; however, cultures of blood and pleural...
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The importance of Clinical Symptoms and Signs in the Diagnosis of Community-Acquired Pneumonia
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
February 1998; p ublished online February 1998 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
A sample of 153 children was drawn from a teaching hospital in Säo Paulo, Brazil. It comprised 51 pneumonia cases and equal number of non-respiratory and healthy controls matched by age and...
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The Preparation of Soy-bean Foods for Use in Rural Communities of the Developing World
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
August 1998; p ublished online August 1998 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
Since the beginning of 1970, there has been a great breakthrough in the popularization of soy-beanbased food in Nigeria and in many parts of the developing world, especially for use in the...
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Factors Related to Child Care Increase the Risk of Pneumonia Among Children Living in a Poor Community in Northeast Brazil
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
April 1997; p ublished online April 1997 .
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Vaccination Coverage is Higher in Children Living in Areas with Community Health Workers in Rural South Africa
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
December 1997; p ublished online December 1997 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
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critical mass
Overview page. Subjects: Business and Management — Sports and Exercise Medicine.
A threshold number of users or customers needed for the sustainable growth of a product or service. Critical mass is required for the success of many online communities and for competing...
attitude survey
Overview page. Subjects: Public Health and Epidemiology — Human Resource Management.
A community-based or sometimes an institutional-based study in which selected individuals are asked to provide answers to questions aimed at assessing their beliefs, values, or attitudes to...
Pediatric Tuberculosis in Rural South Africa—Value of Directly Observed Therapy
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
October 1998; p ublished online October 1998 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
Tuberculosis is a major cause of mortality and morbidity among children in resource-poor settings. A strategy of community-based, directly observed therapy employed in a rural health...
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Diversity of Rotavirus Strains Infecting Pediatric Patients in New Delhi, India
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
August 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (PAGE) of rotavirus can provide information on variation in rotavirus strain prevalent in the community. In the present study 157 samples were collected...
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Response of Egyptian Infants with Protein Calorie Malnutrition to Hepatitis B Vaccination
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
June 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
The response to recombinant hepatitis B vaccine was assessed in 31 seronegative infants (2–26 months old) with protein calorie malnutrition (PCM), compared with 13 seronegative age- and...
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Trends in Intra-uterine Growth of Single Live Births in Southern India
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
December 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
Trends in intra-uterine growth (IUG) of newborns from 1969–1973 to 1989–1993 were studied among rural and urban communities. Yerushalmy's fire group classification of IUG was used. The...
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Epidemiological and Clinical Features of Rotavirus Gastroenteritis in Oman
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
February 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
Two-hundred-and-seventeen children admitted with diarrhoea and 204 unmatched controls hospitalized during the 2-year period from November 1990 to October 1992 were included in this...
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Epidemiologic Consequences of Moderate Coverage Levels of Measles Vaccine in a District Headquarter Town (Alwar) in India, 1996
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
December 1998; p ublished online December 1998 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
This paper describes the epidemiology of measles in a medium size town (population 240 000) in India where vaccine coverage levels have remained constant at around 70 per cent in the past 7...
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News from the regions. Polio surveillance in Lao PDR: a two-year experience of active case search, 1994-96
in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
June 1999; p ublished online June 1999 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Paediatrics; Antitrust Issues and Policies. 0 words.
The underdeveloped health infrastructure and limited epidemiological data on polio are major obstacles to the establishment of the acute flacid paralysis (AFP) surveillance system in Lao...
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