Child Health in the Tropics: Sixth Nutricia — Cow & Gate Symposium Leuven, 18–21 October 1983

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The practice of breastfeeding....Pages 3-7
Growth and weaning in urban Gambian infants....Pages 9-18
Some considerations on the formulation of weaning mixes....Pages 19-27
The influence of mycotoxins on child health in the tropics....Pages 29-41
Bodily growth in thalassemia....Pages 43-49
Ecological evaluation of human development: The case of the child in the tropics....Pages 51-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Rice based oral rehydration therapy in acute diarrhoea: a superior therapy and a medium for calorie supplementation....Pages 65-70
Acute infantile gastroenteritis in Hong Kong....Pages 71-79
Diarrhoeal diseases in children and oral rehydration in Nigeria....Pages 81-88
Diarrhoeal diseases in Pakistani children....Pages 89-93
Diarrhoeal diseases and mortality in infants and children....Pages 95-105
Acute diarrhea in the Dominican Republic....Pages 107-111
Effect of nutritional status of children on intake and absorption of nutrients....Pages 113-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Methods for evaluating nutrition and health status....Pages 127-131
Assessing nutrition at village level....Pages 133-140
A study of some aspects of marginal malnutrition amongst Egyptian infants and young children....Pages 141-155
Epidemiology and clinical assessment of vitamin deficiencies in Thai children....Pages 157-166
Some aspects of protein-energy malnutrition in the highlands of Central Africa....Pages 167-178
Perspectives on world malnutrition....Pages 179-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Sources of excess low birth weight in developing countries....Pages 201-210
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Some aspects of perinatal growth: Can perinatal health be measured in kilograms?....Pages 211-222
Maturity of the Nigerian newborn infant....Pages 223-232
Neonatal intensive care in the developing countries: conservative or aggressive approach....Pages 233-245
Determinants of fetal growth and early postnatal growth in a rural area of Indonesia....Pages 247-260
The pregnancy monitoring chart: an approach to reduce the prevalence of low birth weight by village cadres....Pages 261-268
The mother-infant dyad in Madura, Indonesia: nutritional aspects....Pages 269-280
Erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency and neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia....Pages 281-285
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Training of overseas paediatricians in the U.K.: Relevance to primary child health care....Pages 289-293
Nutrition in primary health care: functional analysis....Pages 295-301
Primary Health Care in the hospital....Pages 303-308
Utilisation of child health services in developing countries....Pages 309-319
What has medicine in the Western World learned from work in developing countries?....Pages 321-331
Summing up and conclusions....Pages 333-337
Back Matter....Pages 339-347