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Cowan S. 2009. Safe start education: Supporting health professionals with influencing infant safety. NZ: Change for Our Children, 23 pp.

Annotation: This resource is for midwife educators and other professional groups in New Zealand who are engaged in education of parents about best practice infant care. It covers the triple risk model, the triple protection model, infant positioning, fetal and infant effects of exposure to smoke, accidental asphyxia, sleeping environment, head shape, grey zone deaths (deaths that are between "definitely SIDS" and "definitely not"), priority babies, NICU and SCBU settings, and parent education.

Keywords: Health professionals, Hospitals, Infant death, Midwives, New Zealand, Prevention, SIDS, Training

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. 1995. Proceedings of the international collaborative effort on injury statistics, Vol. I. Hyattsville, MD: U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, 305 pp.

Annotation: These proceedings stem from a meeting held May 18-20, 1994 which was designed to allow members of the International Collaborative Effort to improve comparability and quality of injury data. Sections address levels and trends in injury mortality and morbidity in selected participating countries, sources of injury related data and special methodological problems, current problems in producing comparable international mortality and morbidity statistics, data needs, linkage issues and coding issues.

Contact: National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3311 Toledo Road, Room 5419, Hyattsville, MD 20782, Telephone: (800) 232-4636 Secondary Telephone: (888) 232-6348 Contact Phone: (301) 436-7039 Fax: (301) 458-4020 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs Available from the website. Document Number: DHHS (PHS) 95-1252.

Keywords: Australia, Canada, Clinical coding, Denmark, England, France, Injury surveillance systems, International classification of diseases, International data, Israel, Morbidity, Mortality, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Statistical reference sources, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad, United States

Woodbury RM. 1922. Infant mortality and preventive work In New Zealand. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 72 pp. (Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau); no.105)

Thompson LA. 1919. Laws relating to "mothers' pensions" in the United States, Canada, Denmark, and New Zealand. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 316 pp. (Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau); no. 63; Legal series; no. 4)

Annotation: This publication, a compilation of laws relating to mother's pensions in the United States, Canada, Denmark, and New Zealand, updates a 1914 publication with the addition of Canadian legislation. A history of mother's pensions legislation, as well as record forms used by various states, is also provided. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Google Books, Web Site: http://www.books.google.com

Keywords: Canada, Child welfare, Denmark, Directories, Family support programs, Legislation, New Zealand, United States, Welfare programs

Harris HJ. 1919. Maternity benefit systems in certain foreign countries. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 206 pp. (Children's Bureau publication; no. 57; Legal series; no. 3)

Annotation: This report describes the various maternity benefit systems in selected foreign countries as of 1918. These systems are designed to protect the health of mothers and children by providing adequate medical and nursing care in childbirth and by lessening the financial burden of childbearing so mothers may be insured a reasonable period free from excessive labor. Information on the methods of administration, cost, and other details of operation of the different systems is also provided. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Google Books, Web Site: http://www.books.google.com

Keywords: Australia, Austria, Childbirth, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, MCH programs, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Obstetrical care, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Welfare programs

Wolfe SH. 1917. Governmental provisions in the United States and foreign countries for members of the military forces and their dependents. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 236 pp. (Children's Bureau publication; no. 28; Miscellaneous series; no. 11)

U.S. Children's Bureau. 1914. New Zealand society for the health of women and children: An example of methods of baby-saving work in small towns and rural districts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 18 pp. (Children's Bureau publication; no. 6; Infant mortality series; no. 2)

Annotation: This monograph reports on the work of the New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children, founded in 1907, to reduce infant mortality and improve the health of the people of New Zealand. The report provides statistics on the decline of infant mortality during its first five years of operation from 8% to 4% and describes the strategies used by the Society to achieve these results. These include the development of local committees, the work of visiting nurses, and the development and distribution of baby care publications and newspaper columns on baby care. Recommendations for adopting similar strategies in the United States are presented in the conclusions. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Google Books, Web Site: http://www.books.google.com

Keywords: Infant mortality, MCH programs, New Zealand, Voluntary organizations
   

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