Child Health & Human Development Yearbook 2010

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, US; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, US)

Introduction; Canadian homeless women -- Gaps in the research agenda; Global child malnutrition & the Democratic People's Republic of Korea; The necessity of breastfeeding for the prevention of bone & joint diseases during childhood; An evaluation of a community-based learning program designed for medical undergraduates in Sri Lanka; Knowledge of & attitudes toward smoking, smoking patterns & perceived stress in Sri Lankan undergraduates; Does a health education program for 5-8 year old children improve physical activity & fitness indices?; Factors affecting visual-motor coordination deficit among children residing near a petrochemical industrial estate; Early childhood lead exposure & exceptionality designations for students; A pilot study of exposures to endocrine-disrupting compounds in pregnant women & children from the United Kingdom; "When will they ever learn?" The Indian experience of universal immunisation program; Alertness observations in children with profound intellectual & multiple disabilities; Analysis of newspaper journalists' portrayal of the homeless & homelessness in Alberta, Canada; A genetic study of six typical families of the sickle cell disease in India.