The News Review:
- Uncle Sam must stop subsidizing obesity
- Unfair Children’s Health Disparities: More Reason for Reform
- UNICEF decries high infant mortality rates in Nigeria
- Religious belief does not trump a child’s health
- Sultan Tasks UNICEF on Provision of Health Centres
- UR offers area students free physicals
- Minnesota Child Dies From Rare Tick Disease
Uncle Sam must stop subsidizing obesity
San Francisco Chronicle
Kids need fresh wholesome food for school lunch – and a menu that complies with the USDA’s food pyramid. It is time for Congress to align food policy with nutritional guidelines. Contact Miller to get school lunches a better grade for your child’s health – and our fiscal future. Rina Shah is a pediatrician in Vallejo.
Unfair Children’s Health Disparities: More Reason for Reform
Huffington Post
Health coverage for all children is a necessary step toward eliminating health disparities and ensuring access to care. And now is the time to take that step with real child health care reform. Right now we live in a nation where children of color experience significant health disparities that begin before birth and follow them throughout their lives. Black infants are more than twice as likely as white infants to die before their first birthday and have higher infant mortality rates than children in 62 nations including Barbados Malaysia and Thailand. ne in every seven babies born to black mothers is born at low birthweight a core risk factor for infant mortality and childhood developmental disorders. The rate of black infants born at low birthweight in the United States is worse than the rate of low birthweight in more than 100 nations including Algeria Botswana and Panama.
UNICEF decries high infant mortality rates in Nigeria
Xinhua
3 (Xinhua) — The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Sunday that infant mortality rate in Nigeria is unacceptably high according to the reports of the Lagos based Daily Independent newspaper on Monday. Ann Veneman UNICEF Executive Director made this assertion at a ministerial press briefing on the 2009 World Breastfeeding and Child Health week held in Abuja. Veneman who is on a working visit to the country decried a situation where children die as a result of preventable diseases. She called on Nigerian government at all levels to show the required political will by providing healthcare with an integrated approach. The UNICEF executive director who is scheduled to launch the first ever bi-annual child health week commended Nigeria for localizing the event. She said countries such as South Africa and Mozambique where the week is observed have experienced improved indices in child and maternal survival.
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Religious belief does not trump a child’s health
Examiner.com
Like all rights they end when you begin to harm or burden others. A religious belief does not allow you to ignore your responsibilities either. As a parent you are responsible for your child’s well-being. Prayer is good but if serious action is needed – say a visit to the hospital when your son jumps off the roof of the house – then you have a duty to seek the proper medical attention as needed. Madeline Neumann fits that example. For two weeks she exhibited symptoms of a child who had an illness. In her final hours she couldn’t even move couldn’t even tell her parents that she loved them despite their actions having been responsible for her condition.
Sultan Tasks UNICEF on Provision of Health Centres
THISDAY
According to him the provision of a comprehensive primary health centre where women can get attention before and after child birth can go a long way in reducing untimely deaths arising from adoption of traditional methods. He lamented that not a single local government council in the state can boast of a functional and equipped primary health centre pointing out that the issue of ante-natal care for pregnant women must be taken serious by authorities if any meaningful impact could be achieved in primary health care in the country. The Sultan stressed that mothers should be considered first before the child in addressing child health issues stressing that without healthy mothers there cannot be healthy children.
UR offers area students free physicals
RocNow
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry students faculty and residents provide physicals annually. For the first time they are teaming up with the Monroe County Department of Public Health to give immunizations required for school. No appointments are necessary but only the first 100 people will be seen at each session at the School of Medicine and Dentistry 415 Elmwood Ave. Parking at the school is free. Students should bring their immunization record and must be accompanied by a parent or guardian or have a signed parent consent form for the physical. Schools can provide a consent form or one can be printed from.
Minnesota Child Dies From Rare Tick Disease
FXNews
The department reported a young child with no underlying health problems from Dakota County died of the disease in July and that the child was probably bitten by an infected tick within the county. About 2000 Rocky Mountain spotted fever cases are recorded in the U. each year but they tend to be in southern eastern and western states. The disease is very rare in Minnesota but the American dog tick — also called the wood tick — that can spread it is common here.
