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Annotation: This background paper seeks to expand understanding of the causes and effects of infant mortality within a broader global context. It compares other nations across the globe, examining the impact of social and economic inequalities on population health and infant mortality. Contents include how inequalities and health are related, learning from participatory human relationships, case studies, inequality and economic health, structural violence and human suffering and dying, and pragmatic solidarity and public policy. References conclude the paper.

Contact: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 805 15th Street, 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20005, Telephone: (202) 789-3500 Fax: (202) 789-6390 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.jointcenter.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Infant mortality, International health, Low income groups, Poverty, Socioeconomic factors, War

Annotation: This guide explores questions that parents and teachers ask about ways to have discussions with children about events such as war, terrorism, and military involvement in distant lands. The guide covers listening to students, responding to students' concerns, and teaching for understanding and promoting positive action. The appendix lists essential questions about the war with Iraq.

Contact: Educators for Social Responsibility, 23 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Telephone: (617) 492-1764 Secondary Telephone: (800) 370-2515 Fax: (617) 864-5164 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.esrnational.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Adolescent mental health, Child mental health, Parent education, Violence, War

Annotation: This guide describes how children grieve at different ages and the specific ways that teachers, mental health professionals, and parents can help them with the immediate and ongoing tasks of grieving. The guide is divided into the following sections: (1) essential information, (2) guidelines for schools, (3) guidelines for mental health professionals, (4) guidelines for parents, (5) children, trauma, and death, (6) mental health, (7) adults, trauma, and death, (8) special topics, and (9) information in Spanish. The guide includes practical tips and specific concepts and issues.The guide contains two appendices: (1) references and (2) books for children, adolescents, parents, and professionals on bereavement; trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder; anxiety disorders; depression; and war, terrorism, and tolerance.The guide as available in English and Spanish.

Contact: New York University Child Study Center, 577 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, Telephone: (212) 263-6622 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.aboutourkids.org/ Available from the website.

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Keywords: Adults, Anxiety, Bereavement, Children, Death, Depression, Emotional trauma, Grief, Mental health, Parents, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Resource materials, Spanish language materials, Terrorism, War

Annotation: This session of the Ross Roundtable was convened to explore some roles in helping children deal with the violence in their lives. These roles typically could be played by the professionals who care for children's health e.g. pediatricians. Presented were broad themes and issues that cut across the entire experience of children and violence. Subjects of discussion include firearms; and gang, urban, rural, domestic, and media violence. The conference was seen as a first discussion for pediatricians of the impact of violence and possible interventions. The Roundtable hopes to revisit these issues.

Contact: Ross Laboratories, Consumer Relations, 625 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215-1724, Telephone: (800) 227-5767 Secondary Telephone: (614) 624-7485 Contact Phone: (614) 227-3333 Web Site: http://www.ross.com Available in libraries.

Keywords: Adolescents, Behavior, Children, Counseling, Data, Domestic violence, Firearms, Gangs, Health professionals, Homicide, Hospitals, Injuries, Intervention, Media violence, Pediatricians, Prevention, Rural population, Urban population, Violence, War, Witnesses

Annotation: This conference report discusses the medical needs of the displaced child, medical care of children in the public welfare population, the role of a multidisciplinary team in such care, the medical needs and responsibilities for children of migrants, seasonal farm workers' children in California, children during war or civil disaster, the child in the Aid to Dependent Children Program, children in adoption, children with one parent, the displaced retarded child, children in hospitals, children in convalescent homes, and children in child care programs. The role of social services for the displaced child is also discussed.

Keywords: Adoption, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, California, Child care, Child health services, Child welfare, Conferences, Disasters, Hospitalization, Mental retardation, Migrant health, Single parents, Social services, War

Annotation: This administrative guide is designed to assist civil defense directors, directors of emergency welfare services, managers of mass care and welfare service centers, and others in developing a welfare program to meet the multiple human problems arising from enemy attack. It contains the policy suggestions of the Federal Civil Defense Administration regarding the development of civil defense welfare services at the state and local level. Ten chapters address emergency welfare in civil defense, planning for the welfare task, organizing welfare services, mass care (including housing, feeding, and clothing), registration and information services, and evacuation procedures.

Keywords: Administration, Children, Disaster planning, Families, Public assistance, War, Welfare services

Annotation: [in process] This unpublished planning packet includes a statement on the role of the American Red Cross in civil defense and a draft statement on emergency civilian aid for infants, children, and families during an enemy attack. An outline of services to meet human needs during such an emergency include registration and information services, mass feeding, emergency clothing and shelter, evacuation procedures, and educational and recreational services. A letter from a field officer, addressed to a Social Security officer, describes the origin of the two documents. The items are available to independent researchers upon request.

Keywords: Children, Disaster planning, Emergencies, Families, Infants, Public assistance, War, Welfare services

Annotation: In this report, the Joint Committee on Child Nutrition, created by the International Children' Emergency Fund of the United Nations, deals with the following issues: (1) the basic principles of nutrition in planning the purchase and distribution of foodstuffs in the development of feeding programs for pregnant women and nursing mothers, infants, preschool- and school-age children, and adolescents; (2) the use of dried whole milk, dried skim milk, and cheese in the fund's operations, and the relative cost of equivalent nutrients in those various forms of milk and milk products, (3) the value, in the fund's operations, of the provision of vitamin-containing foods compared with that of multi-vitamin and mineral preparations alone, (4) recommendations about meals for preschool- and school-age children, and (5) the relative value of a hot cooked meal vs. a cold meal. Th report includes the following main sections: (1) the general condition of children in war-stricken countries of Europe and China, (2) principles of child nutrition, (3) recommendations, and (4) concluding statement. One appendix contains recommendations on calories and specific nutrients. The report concludes with a list of committee members.

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Keywords: Adolescent nutrition, Breastfeeding, Calories, Child nutrition, Child nutrition programs, Costs, Infant nutrition, Infant nutrition programs, International health, Maternal nutrition, Menu planning, Nutrients, Nutrition, Nutritional requirements, Pregnancy, Vitamin deficiencies, Vitamin supplements, Vitamins, War

Annotation: This joint statement on services for unmarried mothers and their children was prepared by the Children's Bureau, the Bureau of Public Assistance of the Social Security Board, and the American Red Cross. The purpose of the material is to encourage further coordinated planning by states and local communities for the fullest use of all services and facilities and to stimulate the provision of needed resources. Topics include illegitimacy as a problem accentuated by wartime conditions, needs to be met, services that should be available, planning to meet needs, and resources available to local communities. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: U.S. Government Publishing Office, 732 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20401, Telephone: (202) 512-1800 Secondary Telephone: (866) 512-1800 Fax: (202) 512-2104 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.gpo.gov Available from the website.

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Keywords: Military, Prenatal influences, Reports, Single mothers, Social services, Social support, Socioeconomic factors, War

Annotation: This report describes the ways in which both states and communities can plan programs and services for children and youth that will contribute to their health and well being in a post-war society. Emphasis is placed on the importance of joint efforts between local, state, and federal agencies.

Contact: Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco, CA 94118, Telephone: (415) 561-6767 Fax: (415) 840-0391 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.archive.org

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Keywords: Child health services, Children, Program planning, Regional planning, Statewide planning, War, Youth, Youth services

Annotation: This report summarizes changes in the cost of community health and welfare services during World War II. Included is an analysis of expenditures for child welfare, family relief, health services, leisure activities between 1940-1942. Changes in costs for planning, financing, and coordinating services are also assessed.

Contact: Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco, CA 94118, Telephone: (415) 561-6767 Fax: (415) 840-0391 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.archive.org

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Keywords: Child welfare, Community health services, Comparative analysis, Costs, Public health, War, Welfare services

Annotation: This draft paper on nutrition during wartime was to be presented before the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Maryland State Department of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, May 15, 1942. It addresses the nutritional status of the American people and the ways in which a healthy diet and an adequate food supply might be sustained during times of war. Marjorie M. Heseltine, served as Consultant in Nutrition, Children's Bureau when she wrote the paper.

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Keywords: , Nutrition, Nutrition education, Public health, War

Annotation: [These minutes summarize the proceedings of the Children's Bureau Commission Children in Wartime meeting held Au;gust 28, 1942. Included is a list of Commission members, government advisors, and Children's Bureau attendees; committee report minutes; summaries of conferences related to the health and protection of children in wartime; and progress related to state activities.

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Keywords: Child health, Children, Federal initiatives, Public health, Service coordination , State initiatives, War

Annotation: This pamphlet aims to encourage proper attention to the nutrition of defense workers, so the improved health and morale which results may speed production of the material needed in modern warfare. It discusses the critical situation of defense workers, dietary deficiencies widespread among workers' families, the British experience with recruits and factory workers, nutrition and industrial health practices, practical considerations for industries interested in the nutritional health of their employees, and recommendations.

Keywords: Industry, Nutrition, War, Work force

Annotation: This study examines the impact of war controls and rationing on consumption and standards of living in countries involved in World War II for which information is available. It covers these topics: (1) consumption control in war economy; (2) food rationing and consumption; (3) rationing of goods other than food; and (4) general estimates of consumers' expenditure.

Keywords: Consumers, Economic factors, Expenditures, Food consumption, International health, Resource allocation, War

Annotation: This document contains suggestions and instruction on how to create toys for children with items from around the kitchen and house, to reduce new toy consumption and reduce the consumption of materials needed to manufacture war related goods.

Contact: U.S. Children's Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families , , 1250 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Eighth Floor , Washington, DC 20024, Telephone: Fax: E-mail: Web Site: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/ Available from the website.

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Keywords: Children, Play, Toys, War

Annotation: A publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Blacks, History, Immigrants, Industry, Legislation, War, Working women

Annotation: This publication provides information on the critical importance of milk for the normal healthy development of infants and children, and for pregnant women and nursing mothers. The nature and value of milk as a food, and information on breast milk and on the purchasing and preparation of milk for infants, are included. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Infant nutrition, Milk, Reports, War

Annotation: This document provides an overview of the Children's Year Campaign, inaugurated in 1918, the results of that campaign, and the plan for follow up activities. Topics include: implementation of the Weighing and Measuring Test, the Recreation drive, and the Back-to-School drive; the conference on child welfare standards; and the protection of maternity, infancy, working children, and children born out of wedlock. Follow up plans cover these topics: better birth registration, the establishment of health stations, public provision of recreation, community study of local needs and resources, and study of present laws and standards of child welfare. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Body height, Body weight, Child labor, Child welfare, Children, Recreation, School attendance, War

Annotation: This monograph addresses the problem of the increasing number of children leaving school for work as a result of World War I. The reasons why this is bad for the children (Premature work means a sacrifice of education, of health, and, as a result, of future earning capacity) and the country (opportunities for untrained workers will diminish after the war), as well as unnecessary (child labor is not needed for the war effort) are presented. The negative consequences of child labor in France and England are reviewed. A Back-to-School Drive that seeks better enforcement of the child labor and compulsory education laws is recommended. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Child labor, School attendance, War