Child Welfare
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Measuring injury risk perceptions: feasibility of a Risk Estimation Scale.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: To develop a scale for measuring parental perceptions of childhood injury risk. METHODS: The Worry Assessment and Risk Estimation (WARE) Scale was administered to 256 parents/guardians to examine reliability, factor structure, and ... Read more...

Child welfare worker caseload: what's just right?

29 Sep 2009 This study was designed to establish a caseload standard for child welfare workers. Understanding reasonable workload expectations for child welfare workers is a cornerstone of quality service provision and the recruitment and retention of qualified ... Read more...

Mental health context of food insecurity: a representative cohort of families with young children.

26 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Children from food-insecure families (ie, families that lack access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food) are at risk for developmental problems. Food insecurity disproportionately occurs among low-socioeconomic status (SES) and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Child Welfare'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Measuring injury risk perceptions: feasibility of a Risk Estimation Scale. 30 Oct 2009
• Time for renewed global action against childhood pneumonia. 29 Oct 2009
• Vaccines and the world of child health. 22 Oct 2009
• How health care reform can benefit children and adolescents. 5 Oct 2009
• A new dermoscopic finding in healthy children: dirt! 29 Sep 2009
• Child welfare worker caseload: what's just right? 29 Sep 2009
• Health care for foster kids: fix the system, save a child. 26 Sep 2009
• Where all the children are above average. 26 Sep 2009
• Mental health context of food insecurity: a representative cohort of families with young children. 26 Sep 2009
• Tobacco smoking: why start? 24 Sep 2009
• How do we support follow-up with the primary care provider after an emergency department visit for asthma? 19 Sep 2009
• When should children be tested for genetic diseases? 19 Sep 2009
• Joint policy statement--guidelines for care of children in the emergency department. 19 Sep 2009
• Connected kids at Head Start: taking office-based violence prevention to the community. 19 Sep 2009
• Burden of disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in children younger than 5 years: global estimates. 10 Sep 2009
• The deadly toll of S pneumoniae and H influenzae type b. 10 Sep 2009
• Impaired health-related quality of life in children with recurrent pain. 5 Sep 2009
• One laptop per child: changing the world. 30 Aug 2009
• [Behaviour therapy and child welfare - results of an approach to improve mental health care of aggressive children] 30 Aug 2009
• Quality. Quality measures being developed for kid care. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Child Welfare'

Definition: Organized efforts by communities or organizations to improve the health and well-being of the child.

Descriptor UI: D002669

Alternative terms: Child Welfare; Welfare, Child; Child Health; Health, Child;

Related Mesh Headings: Foster Home Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; ethnology; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.880.787.293;

Technical Notes: check also tag CHILD or specific