Fair Start for Children
Lessons Learned from Seven Demonstration Projects
Published on 23. December 1992
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-0-300-05206-0 (ISBN)
Description
Infant mortality, low birthrate, developmental problems - all these affect America's children of poverty out of proportion to their numbers in the population. This book aims to be a comprehensive, objective report on an initiative designed to alleviate these problems by helping disadvantaged parents in seven diverse American communities improve the health, nutrition, and early development of their children.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
references, index
Dimensions
Height: 160 mm
Width: 240 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-05206-0 (9780300052060)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Introduction l The Fair Start Story--An Overview The Programms 2. Appalachian Communities Help Their Own: the Maternal infant Health Outreach Worker Project 3. Outreach to Migrant Farmworker Families: The Fair Start Project 4. Giving the Children of Austin, Texas a Fair Start: The Parent Support Programme 5. A Rural Clinic Reaches Out: The Rural Alabwna Pregnancy and Infant Health Project 6. A Bridge to the New World: The Haitian Perinatal Intervention Project 7. Sharing the Transition: The Adolescent Parents Project 8. A Medical Center Serves Its Neighbourhood: The Child Survival Programme 9. Issues of Program Design and Irnplementation IO.Program Operations: Time Allocation and Cost Analysis II.Realistic Expectations: Review of Evaluation Findings The Child Survival/ Fair Start initiative in Context References Index.