Children's services in the developing world / edited by Dwan Kaoukji and Najat M'Jid.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I Catastrophe, War and Disease: The impact of war on the mental health of children: a Salvadoran study, Joan Riley Walton, Ronald L. Nuttall and Ena Vasquez Nuttall; School and neuropsychological performance of evacuated children in Kyiv 11 years after the Chernobyl disaster, Leighann Litcher, Evelyn J. Bromet, Gabrielle Carlson, Nancy Squires, Dmitry Goldgaber, Natalia Panina, Evgenii Golovakha and Semyon Gluzman; Psychological distress amongst AIDS-orphaned children in urban South Africa, Lucie Culver, Frances Gardner and Don Operario. Part II Coping with Poverty and Poor Health: How do carers of disabled children cope? The Ugandan perspective, S. Hartley, P. Ojwang, A. Baguwemu, M. Ddamulira and A. Chavuta; Cultural teaching: the development of teaching skills in Maya sibling interactions, Ashley E. Maynard; Beginning street life: factors contributing to children working and living on the streets of Khartoum, Sudan, Mary L. Plummer, Mustafa Kudrati and Nassrin Dalla El Hag Yousif. Part III Coping with Ordinary Stressors: Socioeconomic causes of child labor in urban Nigeria, 'Dimeji Togunde and Arielle Carter; Conceptions of success: their correlates with prosocial orientation and behaviour in Chinese adolescents, Ping Chung Cheung, Hing Keung Ma and Daniel T.L. Shek; Depressive symptoms among rural Bangladeshi mothers: implications for infant development, Maureen M. Black, Abdullah H. Baqui, K. Zaman, Scot W. McNary, Katherine Le, Shams El Arifeen, Jena D. Hamadani, Monowara Parveen, Md. Yunus and Robert E. Black. Part IV Young People's Perception of Risk: Perceptions of child labour among working children in Ibadan, Nigeria, F.O. Omokhodion, Place of publication not identified Omokhodian and T.O. Odusote; Attitudes toward family obligation among adolescents in contemporary urban and rural China, Andrew J. Fuligni and Wenxin Zhang; Where the boys are: attitudes related to masculinity, fatherhood and violence toward women among low-income adolescent and young adult males in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Gary Barker and Irene Loewenstein ; Future expectations of Brasilian street youth, Marcela Raffaelli and Silvia H. Koller. Part V Cultural Influences: Attitudes and practices of breastfeeding mothers regarding fasting in Ramadan, I. Ozturk Ertem, G. Kaynak, C. Kaynak, B. Ulukol and S. Baskan Gulnar; Change and continuity: childbirth and parenting across 3 generations of women in the United Arab Emirates, K.E. Green and D.E. Smith; The relationship between monogamous/polygamous family structure and the mental health of Bedouin Arab adolescents, S. Ebeldour, William Bart and Joel Hektner. Part VI Level of Risk and Impairment to Health and Development: Sexual abuse during childhood and adolescence among Nicaraguan men and women: a population-based anonymous survey, Ann Olsson, Mary Ellsberg, Staffan Berglund, Andrés Herrera, Elmer Zelaya, Rodolfo Peña, Felix Zelaya and Lars-Åke Persson; Cigarette smoking among schoolboys in Beijing, China, Xiaoming Li, Xiaoyi Fang and Bonita Stanton; Psychosocial determinants of behaviour problems in Brazilian preschool children, Luciana Anselmi, Cesar A. Piccinini, Fernando C. Barros and Rita S. Lopes; Social factors associated with child mental health problems in Brazil: cross sectional survey, Bacy Fleitlich and Robert Goodman; Post-traumatic stress reactions in children of war, Abdel Aziz Mousa Thabet and Panos Vostanis; War exposure and maternal reactions in the psychological adjustment of children from Bosnia-Hercegovina, Patrick Smith, Sean Perrin, William Yule and Sophia Rabe-Hesketh; The secular trends in height and weight of Turkish schoolchildren during 1993-2003, F. Simsek, B. Ulukol and S. Baskan Gulnar; The prevalence and associations of psychiatric disorder in children in Kerala, South India, Richard Hackett, Latha Hackett, Preeta Bhakta and Simon Gowers; Illness incidence and health seeking behaviour among street children in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan -- a qualitative study, M. Ali and A. de Muynck; Poverty, child undernutrition and morbidity: new evidence from India, Shailen Nandy, Michelle Irving, David Gordon, S.V. Subramanian and George Davey Smith; The prevalence of psychiatric disorders among 5-10 year olds in rural, urban and slum areas in Bangladesh: an exploratory study, Mohammad Sayadul Islam Mullick and Robert Goodman. Part VII Intervention and Evaluation: Why don't children complete primary school? A case study of a low-income neighbourhood in Delhi, Rukmini Banerji; Effect of a participatory intervention with women's groups on birth outcomes in Nepal: cluster-randomised controlled trial, Dharma S. Manandhar, David Osrin, Bhim Prasad Shrestha, Natasha Mesko, Joanna Morrison, Kirti Man Tumbahangphe, Suresh Tamang, Sushma Thapa, Dej Shesthra, Bidur Thapa, Jyoti Raj Shesthra, Angie Wade, Josephine Borghi, Hilary Standing, Madan Manandhar, Anthony M.de L. Costello, and members of the MIRA Makwanpur trial team; Countdown to 2015: will the millennium development goal for child survival be met?, Joy E. Lawn, Anthony Costello, Charles Mwansambo and David Osrin; The determinants of compliance with an early intervention programme for high-risk babies in India, N. de Souza, V. Sardessai, K. Joshi, V. Joshi and M. Hughes.