During the 45 years since the publication of a surgical treatment for Hirschsprung's Disease, much more attention has been given to differentiating aganglionic from functional megacolon than other, less common disorders of defecation...

Missouri provides insurance for children through its Medicaid program, known as MO HealthNet and its version of the federal State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, known as MO HealthNet for Kids. Research indicates that a significant...

An alternative hypothesis regarding vomiting and failure to thrive is that they may be coincidental; they may have different of common causes, but they may not be connected simply as primary and secondary phenomena. This ...

to help a child overcome soiling....

Research has shown that early and focused prevention efforts can greatly reduce the costs, economic, psychological and social, borne by families and societies afflicted by poor mental health. With the help of a model program, the poster highlights...

Each year the United Health Foundation, a private, non-profit foundation dedicated to improving health outcomes and promoting healthier communities, releases “America's Health Rankings.” Each state is evaluated on ...

Better health prevention requires patients to have adequate health literacy skills....

What is the essence of clinical caring, how can its value be determined, and what are its origins? Caring for a patient is a bit like loving someone. In both cases, the wellbeing of the person who is loved or the patient ...

The biomedical model limits the role of the physician to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. It fails when applied to patients whose symptoms cannot be reduced to physiochemical terms or “cured” by technological means. ...

In 1998, Missouri was one of 14 states chosen by the Department of Health and Human Services to assess the well-being of individuals leaving cash assistance. Approximately 2400 households that left Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC...

In child abuse and neglect cases, a reunification plan for putting the child(ren) back in the care of the parent(s) is developed in tandem with an alternative permanent placement plan for the child in a process termed concurrent planning. Concurrent...

House Bill 1453 (2004) brought about a number of changes in the way child welfare cases are processed and approached in the State of Missouri. These statutory changes affect not only the children and families involved, but also the judges, clerks...

. The econometric model used is based on the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) conceptual framework of immediate, underlying and basic determinants; and the data are from the 2007 DRC Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). Using Ordinary Least Square method we...

Health disparities are differences that exist among specific population groups in the United States related to the incidence, prevalence, and mortality of disease, the burden of cancer, and related adverse health conditions. Disparities can occur...

This article discusses the physiology of fecal continence and disorders of defecation in childhood.

This two page document lists functional vomiting patterns and disorders in infants, children, and adolescents.

This brief builds upon information presented to and gathered by the Missouri Children's Services Commission to assess the impact of parental incarceration on both their children and society as a whole. The first section ...

National statistics on the amount of child abuse and neglect are difficult to obtain because states use different definitions. Some states report only substantiated cases that have been verified according to state law. Other states report...