August 26, 2021
Categories: Medicine and Health
Tags: Children
Components of the medical history should include: History of trauma Symptoms of communicable disease (i.e. fever, coryza, cough, rash, diarrhea, vomiting) Past medical and surgical history including any known chronic diseases Specific history of TB and HIV should be solicited Medication history Components of the physical examination should include: Vital signs and assessment of hydration status Height, …
All children should have a medical history (if known) and physical examination. Read More »
March 8, 2016
Categories: Restavek
Tags: Children, family, host, parents, Restavek
Parents in dire economic straights give their children away as a means of coping with their poverty. Parents see child placements as an opportunity for social mobility for the child and the family. They believe working as a domestic servant in the city at least increases the child’s opportunity to access education and other services …
Host rationalize restavèk practice beneficial and generous Read More »
May 15, 2015
Categories: Access, Education, Human Rights, Justice, Millennium Development Goals, Resources
Tags: Children, education, human rights
Source: miamistudent.net “We don’t stop, we don’t move backwards. We move forward onto the next movement,” Marian Wright Edelman said, talking about a new civil rights movement that would fight child poverty in America. Edelman spoke in Hall Auditorium Thursday, Feb. 5. She is the first guest speaker to visit Miami this spring in the …
Children’s activist speaks on importance of education | The Miami Student Read More »