Child Health in the Tropics : Sixth Nutricia - Cow & Gate Symposium Leuven, 18-21 October 1983

Front Matter....Pages I-XV Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The practice of breastfeeding....Pages 3-7 Growth and weaning in urban Gambian infants....Pages 9-18 Some considerations on the formulation of weaning mixes....Pages 19-27 The influence of mycotoxins on child health in the tropics....Pages 29-41 Bodily growth in thalassemia....Pages 43-49 Ecological evaluation of human development: The case of the child in the tropics....Pages 51-62 Front Matter....Pages 63-63 Rice based oral rehydration therapy in acute diarrhoea: a superior therapy and a medium for calorie supplementation....Pages 65-70 Acute infantile gastroenteritis in Hong Kong....Pages 71-79 Diarrhoeal diseases in children and oral rehydration in Nigeria....Pages 81-88 Diarrhoeal diseases in Pakistani children....Pages 89-93 Diarrhoeal diseases and mortality in infants and children....Pages 95-105 Acute diarrhea in the Dominican Republic....Pages 107-111 Effect of nutritional status of children on intake and absorption of nutrients....Pages 113-123 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 Methods for evaluating nutrition and health status....Pages 127-131 Assessing nutrition at village level....Pages 133-140 A study of some aspects of marginal malnutrition amongst Egyptian infants and young children....Pages 141-155 Epidemiology and clinical assessment of vitamin deficiencies in Thai children....Pages 157-166 Some aspects of protein-energy malnutrition in the highlands of Central Africa....Pages 167-178 Perspectives on world malnutrition....Pages 179-197 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 Sources of excess low birth weight in developing countries....Pages 201-210 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 Some aspects of perinatal growth: Can perinatal health be measured in kilograms?....Pages 211-222 Maturity of the Nigerian newborn infant....Pages 223-232 Neonatal intensive care in the developing countries: conservative or aggressive approach....Pages 233-245 Determinants of fetal growth and early postnatal growth in a rural area of Indonesia....Pages 247-260 The pregnancy monitoring chart: an approach to reduce the prevalence of low birth weight by village cadres....Pages 261-268 The mother-infant dyad in Madura, Indonesia: nutritional aspects....Pages 269-280 Erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency and neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia....Pages 281-285 Front Matter....Pages 287-287 Training of overseas paediatricians in the U.K.: Relevance to primary child health care....Pages 289-293 Nutrition in primary health care: functional analysis....Pages 295-301 Primary Health Care in the hospital....Pages 303-308 Utilisation of child health services in developing countries....Pages 309-319 What has medicine in the Western World learned from work in developing countries?....Pages 321-331 Summing up and conclusions....Pages 333-337 Back Matter....Pages 339-347 It 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