Kotch is winner of Martha May Eliot award.
Jonathan B. Kotch, MD, MPH, FAAP, a professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named winner of the 2008 Martha May Eliot Award, which honors exceptional achievements in maternal and child health. He will receive the...

Nursing in India: learning new skills in the traditional Bhil fields.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] INDIA, Those who have been there understand--they know the arduous task of conveying the tangible experiences of India. The overwhelming number of people, the colours, the sounds (the constant car horn honking, animal noises and religious services broadcast on loud-speakers in the larger cities), the...

Cursed by God?
Americans generally think of pregnancy and birth in terms of natural processes that call for a healthy diet, doctor's appointments, ultrasounds, and pain management during labor. But as New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof reported February 25, giving birth can prove nothing short of disastrous for many women...

Lessons for family planning providers from transitions in maternal and child health funding.
By the end of 2006, the federal government had approved applications from 25 states to grant Medicaid coverage for family planning services to low-income women not poor enough for regular Medicaid eligibility. The income ceiling under most of these programs is at or close to 200% of the federal...

Seizing the big missed opportunity: linking HIV and maternity care services in sub-Saharan Africa.
Abstract: This paper draws on two reviews commissioned by the UK Department for International Development in 2006-2007 that explore progress in linking HIV prevention and maternity services in sub-Saharan Africa. Although pilot and demonstration projects have been successful, progress in scaling up PMTCT has been slow, reaching just 17%...

Bringing families to the fore.
Child health nursing has undergone a quiet revolution ill the last six years, widening its scope of practice to encompass the whole family, and not just the child. This has been accomplished by changes in child health policy, influenced by research into the effects of adverse parenting...

Iowa tops nation in child health care performance, report finds.
If every state's health system performed in the top tier, more than 4 million additional children would have health insurance, about 750,000 more children would be receiving five key vaccines, and nearly 11 million more children would have a medical home, according to a new report. Released...

Nursing practice in community child health: Developing the nurse--client relationship.
ABSTRACT Community nursing services to parents with young children have been an established part of child health services in Australia for more than a century. Although the titles vary within states, community child health nurses provide support services for parents with infants and young children and typically...

Lynn.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LYNN CLARK CALLISTER, PHD, RN, FAAN, received the NLN Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Education Summit 2007 in Phoenix this September. A professor at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Lynn currently teaches undergraduate courses in scholarly inquiry in nursing (nursing research.) and nursing...

Title V.
Every state has a Title V Program which is funded, in part, through the Federal Title V Block Grant that provides health-related services to children with special healthcare needs (sometimes abbreviated as "CSHCN") and their families. Title V Programs also provide assistance in accessing other services that CSHCN and...