The mental health of women not only adversely affects them, but its impact on their
developing infant is also severe. If the ability of women to take care of their baby is
compromised, the survival and development of the infant is jeopardized. Maternal
depression in resource-constrained settings ...is linked directly to lower infant birth
weight, higher rates of malnutrition and stunting, higher rates of diarrhoeal disease,
infectious illness and hospital admission and reduced completion of recommended
schedules of immunization in children. It also adversely affects physical, cognitive,
social, behavioural and emotional development of children (1).
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Chapter 9: Public health guide for emergencies
Joint WHO/ILO guidelines on post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to prevent HIV infection.
You can download the Convention in more than 30 languages directly from the website
These guidelines have been extracted from the WHO manual Surgical Care at the District
Hospital (SCDH), which is a part of the WHO Integrated Management Package on Emergency
and Essential Surgical Care (IMPEESC).
Refer for details on anaesthesia, head, gunshot and landmine injuries in chapters
Review of disability issues and rehabilitation services in 29 african countries.
Contact No 175 - October December 2001
Towards the Peoples Health Assembly Book -2