Sentences with phrase «infant health risk factors»

Family Risk as a Predictor of Initial Engagement and Follow - Through in a Universal Nurse Home Visiting Program to Prevent Child Maltreatment Alonso - Marsden, Dodge, O'Donnell, Murphy, Sato, Christopoulos (2013) Child Abuse and Neglect, 37 (8) View Abstract Examines family demographic and infant health risk factors that predict engagement and follow - through in a universal home - based maltreatment prevention program for new mothers in Durham County, North Carolina.

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According to Rebecca L. Mannel, director of lactation services at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, lactation consultants «are the only healthcare professional specifically trained to manage the full spectrum of breastfeeding, from prenatal to postpartum, from normal healthy moms and babies to complicated situations involving maternal risk factors or illness or infants born preterm or with some other health complication.&Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, lactation consultants «are the only healthcare professional specifically trained to manage the full spectrum of breastfeeding, from prenatal to postpartum, from normal healthy moms and babies to complicated situations involving maternal risk factors or illness or infants born preterm or with some other health complication.&health complication.»

Our work honors all the ways babies are fed and nourished by promoting safe, evidence - based practices, and strives to empower parents and parents - to - be with information on how to safely feed their babies, identify feeding risk factors, work with health care providers, recognize signs of feeding issues and related infant health conditions, and avoid infant re-hospitalizations and negative outcomes.

Throughout the television coverage there was only one, oblique, reference to the potential health risks of bottle feeding (a paediatrician asked whether a sick infant was receiving formula milk, implying that it could be a factor in the illness; ER, 17 March).

It takes skill, experience, sensitivity, and understanding to assess a mother's situation and to communicate all the information that she needs (on modes of transmission, risk factors, preventive strategies, and the level of health service support available) to balance the risks and benefits of feasible infant feeding strategies.

Diphtheria - tetanus - pertussis immunization and sudden infant death: results of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Cooperative Epidemiological Study of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Risk Finfant death: results of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Cooperative Epidemiological Study of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Risk FInfant Death Syndrome Risk Factors

The finding that mother - infant co-sleeping on separate surfaces confers reduced risk of SIDS but some forms of same surface co-sleeping increase risk (under certain circumstances, see below), has given rise to recent public health campaigns against any and all bedsharing in the United States.29 However, when examined in detail, epidemiological studies reveal inconsistent findings as to whether or not, to what degree, or under what circumstances bedsharing represents a consistent risk factor for SIDS and / or SUID.

Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all of these risk factors into his process model of parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness of a program for low - birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect of both socioeconomic status and parenting on child abuse and neglect (as measured by ratings of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years of life, not by review of administrative data) and found that both factors contributed significantly and uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived to engage in some form of child maltreatment.13 The link between parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive parenting behaviors would also contribute to lower rates of child maltreatment among families served.

The panel explored the importance of mental health in infancy, infant and parental risk and protective factors and the importance of collaborative interventions with early childhood and health and community services.

Positive infant health begins with supporting a pregnant mother and her family unit, building on the protective factors unique to the family, as well as assessing for, and minimising, any risk factors that may also be present.

Self - care and «going back to the basics» is also important because it helps parents and carers maintain positive family relationships, which is a key protective factor that can reduce the risk of infants developing mental health issues.

While the presence of risk factors does not always mean an infant will develop mental health difficulties, they can increase the chance of this happening.

It is the combination of the negative effects of risk factors and mediating protective factors that lead to the development of an infant's mental health difficulties.

Below are some recommended resources on the importance of mental health in infancy, infant and parental risk and protective factors.

Infants who are exposed to protective factors have a decreased chance of experiencing mental health difficulties, whereas exposure to risk factors increases the likelihood of mental health difficulties developing.

This issue brief explores how home visiting programs — specifically, evidence - based programs funded by the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program — address three key maternal risk factors that directly influence maternal and child health and disproportionately affect mothers who participate in home visiting: postpartum depression, domestic violence, and tobacco use.

In combination with socioeconomic risk factors it can have an adverse impact on caregiving that in turn is associated with developmental delay in the exposed infant.1 Infant exposure to maternal depression also appears to confer a significantly elevated risk of mental health problems in later chilinfant.1 Infant exposure to maternal depression also appears to confer a significantly elevated risk of mental health problems in later chilInfant exposure to maternal depression also appears to confer a significantly elevated risk of mental health problems in later childhood.

A Diagnosis of Denial: How Mental Health Classification Systems Have Struggled to Recognise Family Violence as a Serious Risk Factor in the Development of Mental Health Issues for Infants, Children, Adolescents and Adults.

The decline is believed to have halted because of the generally poorer health of Indigenous mothers; their exposure to risk factors; and the poor state of health infrastructure in which infants were raised.