Child Health in the Tropics

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.