عنوان

Child Health in the Tropics :

(Number (ISBN

9400950128

(Number (ISBN

9789400950122

Number

b540174

Title Proper

Child Health in the Tropics :

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[Book]

Other Title Information

Sixth Nutricia - Cow & Gate Symposium Leuven, 18-21 October 1983

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by R.E. Eeckels, O. Ransome-Kuti, C.C. Kroonenberg.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1985

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(364 pages)

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Session I Feeding, Feeding Practices and Growth Chairman: Chap-Yung Yeung --;The practice of breastfeeding --;Growth and weaning in urban Gambian infants --;Some considerations on the formulation of weaning mixes --;The influence of mycotoxins on child health in the tropics --;Bodily growth in thalassemia --;Ecological evaluation of human development: the case of the child in the tropics --;Session II Diarrhoeal Diseases Chairman: O. Ransome-Kuti --;Rice based oral rehydration therapy in acute diarrhoea: a superior therapy and a medium for calorie supplementation --;Acute infantile gastroenteritis in Hong Kong --;Diarrhoeal diseases in children and oral rehydration in Nigeria --;Diarrhoeal diseases in Pakistani children --;Diarrhoeal diseases and mortality in infants and children --;Acute diarrhea in the Dominican Republic --;Effect of nutritional status of children on intake and absorption of nutrients --;Session III Nutrition Chairman: J.H.P. Jonxis --;Methods for evaluating nutrition and health status --;Assessing nutrition at village level --;A study of some aspects of marginal malnutrition amongst Egyptian infants and young children --;Epidemiology and clinical assessment of vitamin deficiencies in Thai children --;Some aspects of protein-energy malnutrition in the highlands of Central Africa --;Perspectives on world malnutrition --;Session IV The Newborn Infant Chairman: O.P. Ghai --;Sources of excess low birth weight in developing countries --;Some aspects of perinatal growth: can perinatal health be measured in kilograms? --;Maturity of the Nigerian newborn infant --;Neonatal intensive care in the developing countries: conservative or agressive approach --;Determinants of fetal growth and early-postnatal growth in a rural area of Indonesia --;The pregnancy monitoring chart: an approach to reduce the prevalence of low birth weight by village cadres --;The mother-infant dyad in Madura, Indonesia: nutritional aspects --;Erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency and neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia --;Session V Training and Teaching --;Primary Health Care Systems Chairman: R.G. Hendrickse --;Training of overseas paediatricians in the U.K.: relevance to primary child health care --;Nutrition in primary health care: functional analysis --;Primary health care in the hospital --;Utilisation of child health services in developing countries --;What has medicine in the Western World learned from work in developing countries? --;Summing up and conclusions --;Index of subjects.

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Sixth Nutricia-Cow & Gate Symposium, Leuven, Belgium

Parallel Title

Sixth Nutricia-Cow & Gate Symposium, Leuven, Belgium

Medicine.

Pediatrics.

Tropical medicine.

edited by R.E. Eeckels, O. Ransome-Kuti, C.C. Kroonenberg.

C C Kroonenberg

O Ransome-Kuti

R E Eeckels

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[Book]

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