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Annotation: This resource booklet provides materials for promoting World Health Day, April 7, 1994, which focuses on oral health. It emphasizes the correlation between oral health and a person's general health and notes progress in achieving better oral health. The booklet reviews challenges in the United States and reports on oral disease among school children, adults, and the elderly. It includes information on oral diseases and risk factors, the dangers of using tobacco, patterns in oral health around the world, and particular challenges in developing countries. It presents future initiatives, reviews basic points in oral care, and provides information on promoting and participating in the 1994 World Health Day observations. The booklet is available in English and Spanish.

Contact: National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchoralhealth.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Developing countries, Health observances, Health promotion, Oral health, Spanish language materials, United States

Annotation: This report looks at the health status and social status of women and children in developed and developing countries. Several areas of health are examined. These include child mortality under age 5; malnutrition; measles immunization; primary education; birth rates; family size; maternal mortality; and family planning. Data from all countries is provided where available. Countries are ranked against each other by region with the industrialized nations being their own category. Each section contains a narrative summarizing the situation for a certain health problem or social condition. The final section examines industrialized nations as a group. A table shows which countries have signed or ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and have finalized the National Program of Action for reaching year 2000 goals.

Contact: UNICEF, the United Nation's Children's Fund, UNICEF House, Three United Nations Plaza, 44th Street, Between 1st and 2nd Avenues, New York, NY 10017, Telephone: (212) 326-7000 Contact Phone: (212) 326-7000 Fax: (212) 887-7465 Web Site: http://www.unicef.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Child health, Developed countries, Developing countries, International health, Social conditions, Statistics, Women', s health

Annotation: This manual outlines a two day workshop primarily designed to train field supervisors and community health workers who are trained to weigh young children as well as to chart and interpret their growth on improving their interpersonal communication with clients. It describes a set of six sessions, each of which includes: 1) title, 2) estimated time, 3) behavioral objectives for participants, 4) materials, 5) recommended activities, 6) objectives checklist, and 7) notes to the trainer. The manual also explains to trainers the logistics of preparing and conducting the workshop, how to adapt the manual to meet the group's needs, and provides some sample resources for activities and questionnaires.

Contact: FHI 360 , 359 Blackwell Street, Suite 200, Durham, NC 27701, Telephone: (919) 544-7040 Contact Phone: (202) 862-1900 Fax: (919) 544-7261 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.fhi360.org $4.00.

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Keywords: Child health, Child nutrition, Communication skills, Developing countries, Growth monitoring, Infant health, Infant nutrition, Nutrition counseling, Nutrition education, Nutrition promotion, Training materials

Annotation: This book is based on HealthCom, a fifteen year, twenty country public health program sponsored by U. S. Agency for International Development. It is intended for use by health professionals who are training non-professional health workers. The book presents a model for communication designed to introduce and reinforce changes in health behavior. The five step method is based on using behavior analysis theory to understand the relationships between behavior and environment in a given community. The book includes sections on the vocabulary of applied behavior analysis, assessing behavior, planning for change, skills training, monitoring behavior change, and maintaining healthy practices. Included are worksheets, a list of references, and a bibliography for further reading.

Contact: Jossey-Bass Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Corporate Headquarters, 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, Telephone: (201) 748-6000 Fax: (201) 748-6088 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.JosseyBass.com Available in libraries. Document Number: ISBN 1-55542-585-2.

Keywords: Behavior, Communication skills, Cultural factors, Culturally competent services, Developing countries, Public health

Annotation: This book presents the highlights of the 1991 National Council for International Health's conference on women's health. It details a wide range of issues, both clinical and socioeconomic, that affect women's health in developing countries. Chapters focus on the impact of poverty on morbidity and mortality, cultural barriers to health care, and strategies for establishing family planning and abuse prevention services.

Contact: Westview Press, 2465 Central Avenue, Boulder, CO 80301, Fax: (720) 406-7336 Web Site: http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/Westview/index.jsp $16.95.

Keywords: Abortion, Access to health care, Access to prenatal care, Communicable diseases, Contraception, Developing countries, Domestic violence, Family planning, International data, Mental health, Morbidity, Mortality, Nutrition, Quality assurance, Reproductive health, Socioeconomic factors, Statistics, Violence, Women', s health

Annotation: This report describes projects throughout the world supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development's HEALTHCOM program to promote child health, and specifically to study effective communication with mothers and families about health problems, prevention, and treatment. Sections of the report cover research in communications; strategies for behavior change; designing and testing materials; principles and tools for training; and new policies and new products from a commercial marketing standpoint. There is a listing of selected publications resulting from HEALTHCOM research.

Contact: FHI 360 , 359 Blackwell Street, Suite 200, Durham, NC 27701, Telephone: (919) 544-7040 Contact Phone: (202) 862-1900 Fax: (919) 544-7261 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.fhi360.org $15.00.

Keywords: Communication, Developing countries, Federal programs, Health education, Health promotion, Program descriptions

Annotation: These proceedings include presentations at the international conference, Communication Strategies to Support Infant and Child Nutrition, held July 13–14, 1992, in Washington, DC. The conference was sponsored by the International Nutrition Education Division of the Society for Nutrition Education and the Nutrition Education Project, managed by the Academy for Educational Development for the U.S. Agency for International Development, Bureau for Research and Development, Office of Nutrition. Topics discussed include mass media campaigns, interpersonal communication using peer counselors, training of health care workers, social mobilization, and support for Innocenti and the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative.

Contact: FHI 360 , 359 Blackwell Street, Suite 200, Durham, NC 27701, Telephone: (919) 544-7040 Fax: (919) 544-7261 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.fhi360.org Available in libraries.

Keywords: Child nutrition, Communication, Developing countries, Infant nutrition, Mass media, Nutrition education

Annotation: This report reviews the scientific literature on effectiveness of prenatal interventions in relation to poor maternal health in developing countries. It starts from the major pathogenic causes of maternal mortality in such countries and traces their antecedent morbidities and risk factors in pregnancy. The report reviews critically the scientific evidence on the effectiveness of various interventions for conditions including hemorrhage and anemia; hypertensive disorders; obstructed labor; and puerpal sepsis and genito-urinary infection. Among its appendices are a 14-page bibliography and a list of prenatal interventions known to be effective, along with tables of research questions still to be answered.

Contact: WHO Press, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland, Telephone: +41 22 791 3264 Fax: +41 22 791 4857 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://apps.who.int/bookorders/ $9.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling; item number 1930032. Document Number: WHO/MSM/92.4.

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Keywords: Developing countries, Evaluation, Maternal health, Prenatal care, Treatment outcome

Annotation: This book presents a review of a wide range of experience in maternal and child health and family planning programs, with the aim of determining whether it is possible to single out the factors and conditions that encourage effective community participation. This review is based on case studies sponsored by governmental and nongovernmental organizations in developing countries. Its four chapters provide a brief history of community participation in health care, interpretations of community participation, an analytical framework for the study, and a discussion in which the analytical framework is applied to case studies, including a discussion of the possibility of determining the conditions that make community participation effective and the limitations of this approach.

Contact: WHO Press, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland, Telephone: +41 22 791 3264 Fax: +41 22 791 4857 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://apps.who.int/bookorders/ $8.50 plus $3.00 shipping and handling; order number 1150338.

Keywords: Child health, Community participation, Developing countries, Family planning, Maternal health, Primary care

Annotation: This book addresses the issues that have been raised regarding the value of growth monitoring in early childhood in the international setting, including affordability of monitoring programs, cultural difficulties with illiterate community health workers and mothers, and difficulties in providing adequate followup when indicated. It discusses a range of methods and options that can be selected to fit within national constraints, training issues, and evaluation.

Contact: Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, Telephone: (800) 451-7556 Secondary Telephone: (212)726-6000 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.oup.com/us Available in libraries.

Keywords: Child development, Child health, Developing countries, Growth monitoring

Annotation: This report present the majority and minority views and the text of a study of the same name which was prepared in 1990 by Frank Hobbs and Laura Lippman of the Center for International Research, Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce. Information and data are presented on the populations and demographics of youth internationally, on family characteristics, marriage and fertility patterns, economic conditions, health indicators, injuries and mortality, and education and employment. The study compares conditions affecting the well-being of children, adolescents, and young adults in developed and developing countries. and the findings are discussed with particular reference to the United States.

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 Price unknown.

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Keywords: Adolescents, Cause of death, Children, Demographics, Developed countries, Developed nations, Developing countries, Education, Employment, Fertility, Health status, Injuries, International data, Marital status, Mortality, Socioeconomic factors, Young adults

Annotation: This handbook is designed to provide practical guidelines for the correct use of focus groups research and to suggest modifications to developing countries. The author provides an overview of qualitative research, and discusses when to use individual depth interviews and when to use focus groups. She also discusses setting up focus group research, developing the topic guide, group discussion techniques, the focus group moderator, moderating a focus group, special problems that occur in focus groups, and the focus group report. This is available in English, French, and Spanish.

Contact: FHI 360 , 359 Blackwell Street, Suite 200, Durham, NC 27701, Telephone: (919) 544-7040 Contact Phone: (202) 862-1900 Fax: (919) 544-7261 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.fhi360.org $10.00; prepayment required.

Keywords: Developing countries, Focus groups, Manuals, Market research, Non English language materials, Qualitative evaluation, Spanish language materials

Annotation: This manual presents a systematic public health communication methodology for child survival programs in the developing world. It covers four areas: public health communication and its role in child survival programs; three disciplines which have significantly influenced public health communications-social marketing, behavior analysis, and anthropology; stages of the methodology-planning, intervention, and monitoring/evaluation; and methods for assuring the continued application, or institutionalization of a public health strategy. The material has been tested by Agency for International Development projects Mass Media and Health Practices (MMHP) and Communication for Child Survival Project (HEALTHCOM), which focused on a range of health areas including oral rehydration therapy, immunizations, nutrition, breastfeeding, growth monitoring, and others. Appendices include case studies, sample materials, and a bibliography.

Contact: U.S. Agency for International Development, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, DC 20523-1000, Telephone: (202) 712-4810 Fax: (202) 216-3524 Web Site: http://www.usaid.gov $10.00.

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Communication, Developing countries, Health promotion, Immunization, Infant development, Infant health, Infant mortality, Infant nutrition, Oral rehydration therapy, Prevention programs

Annotation: This book was written for community health workers in developing countries. The book is divided into two parts: the first part presents teaching guidelines and basic nutritional information, the second part contains specific teaching modules. The teaching modules include: knowing the community; measuring and monitoring the growth and nutrition of children; promoting breastfeeding; nutritional care of mothers, nutritional care of infants and children; nutritional care during diarrhea and other common infections; and conveying nutrition information and solving problems in the community.

Contact: WHO Press, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland, Telephone: +41 22 791 3264 Fax: +41 22 791 4857 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://apps.who.int/bookorders/ Available from the website.

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Keywords: Breastfeeding, Child nutrition, Developing countries, Infant nutrition, Nutrition, Training

Annotation: This compendium describes problems in food science and nutrition of interest to developing countries that were identified by scientists and other workers in less developed countries as topics worthy of immediate examination. The purpose of the compendium is to stimulate the interest of research workers and technologists in solving these and similar problems. Problems are listed in four categories: new foods, food processing, food composition, and nutrition and health.

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Keywords: Developing countries, Food, Nutrition

Annotation: This manual discusses preventing malnutrition among preschool children by providing protein-rich weaning food when breastfeeding is no longer possible. It provides information on normal growth and development during the first five years, nutritional needs of children, major causes of morbidity and mortality in children during the first five years, diseases, nutritional value of food, food processing and its effect on nutrients, nutritional education, supplementary foods, planning an infant feeding program, and recipes. It ends with three appendices, including a glossary, and a list of recommended reading.

Keywords: Child nutrition, Developing countries, Guidelines, Infant feeding, Infant nutrition, MCH programs, Manuals, Prevention programs, Proteins, Weaning

Annotation: This report presents the collective views of an international group of experts on food fortification programs within the context of overall national food and nutrition policies and protein-calorie malnutrition, one of the most serious public health problems confronting the developing countries.The report also includes a discussion of future research and action. Some information is presented in tables throughout the report.

Contact: World Health Organization, 20, Avenue Appia, Geneva, Switzerland , Telephone: (+ 41 22) 791 21 11 Fax: (+ 41 22) 791 3111 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.who.int/en Available from the website.

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Keywords: Nutrition policy, Calories, Developing countries, Food, International health, Nutrition, Nutrition disorders, Protein

Annotation: This monograph, published in 1968 and revised in 1969 by the Office of War on Hunger, is intended for many groups including those with no technical training in the health field, including Peace Corps volunteers, who are working in developing tropical countries. It aims to help nontechnical workers recognize the significance of malnutrition in young children and gear their efforts to locally appropriate preventive and curative measures. Topics include the human scene and diet, improving food supplies, custom and food, malnutrition in childhood, nutrition education and combating malnutrition. A French translation was published in 1969 and a Spanish translation was published in 1971.

Keywords: Child nutrition, Developing countries, Hunger, Non English language materials, Nutrition disorders, Spanish language materials, Young children

Annotation: This manual is intended primarily to serve health workers in agriculture, home economics, and community development in Nigeria and elsewhere in West Africa. The manual may be useful for those working on the problem of nutrition in tropical Africa and also contains materials specifically suited for teaching advanced courses on food science and applied nutrition. The manual is divided into the following main sections: (1) basic and applied nutrition, (2) medical evidence of malnutrition in Nigeria, (3) environmental and social factors related to malnutrition, (4) food objectives in agricultural planning, (5) teaching and extension of better nutrition, and (6) the place of nutrition in integrated community development. Statistical information is presented in tables throughout the manual. The manual also includes a bibliography and a glossary of Nigerian food names in the text.

Keywords: Africa, Community development, Developing countries, Environmental factors, Nutrition, Nutrition disorders, Nutrition education, Social factors

Annotation: This document is the text of a lecture given at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, on March 19, 1965. In it, the speaker gives an overview of health problems common to all children then focuses on the different problems of children in countries at various stages of development. Topics include infant and child mortality, types of services needed (community health services, MCH serv ices (including maternity care services and child care services), and services for children of school age. Outstanding problems discussed are nutrition and training of necessary health personnel.

Keywords: Child health, Developing countries, Health services, International health