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Book SynopsisIt is almost twenty years ago since under Nutricia's auspices the first Nutricia Symposium took place. Professor Jonxis was mainly responsible for the organiza- tion of the earlier symposia, whilst Professor Visser organized the fifth Nutricia Symposium in 1978. This book is the commitment to paper of the lectures given during the sixth Nutricia/Cow & Gate Symposium held in Louvain in 1983. Both Professor Eeckels and Professor Ransome-Kuti succeeded in collecting a panel of experts on 'Child Health in the Tropics'. We hope, in fact we are sure, that you will consider the contents of this book a daily stimulation in your medical profession. October 1984 Contents Preface...V List of authors ...XI List of participants...XIV SESSION I FEEDING, FEEDING PRACTICES AND GROWTH Chairman: Chap-Yung Yeung A. Omololu, The practice of breastfeeding ...3 M. G. M. Rowland, S. G. l. Goh, S. Tullock, D. T. Dunn and R. l. Hayes, Growth and weaning in urban Gambian infants...9 W. Klaver, Some considerations on the formulation of weaning mixes. . 19 R. G. Hendrickse, The influence of mycotoxins on child health in the tropics...29 V. S. Tanphaichitr, C. Tuchinda, V. Suvatte and S. Tuchinda, Bodily growth in thalassemia ...43 L. Sinisterra, Ecological evaluation of human development: the case of the child in the tropics...51 SESSION II DIARRHOEAL DISEASES Chairman: o. Ransome-Kuti A. M. Molla, S. A. Sarker, A. Molla, M. Kathoon, W. B.
Table of ContentsSession 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.
