Topical issues in maternal and child health in Ghana. /
edited by Jennifer E. Welbeck, Bamenla Q. Goka, Lorna A. Renner, Collins Oduro-Boatey and Samuel A. Oppong
- Accra: Digibooks Ghana Ltd., 2014.
- xv, 193p.: ills.; 24cm
Includes index.
Contents: Brief history of child health in Korle-Bu -- New-born deaths: A major challenge to achieving millennium development goals -- Child development services: The key to increasing economic gain and preventing developmental disorders and disability in Ghana -- The child who does not speak: The face of autism in Accra -- Child abuse in Ghana: a 4-year tertiary centre experience -- Outcome of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at the paediatric oncology unit, Korle-Bu teaching hospital, Accra, Ghana: a 5-year review -- Burkitt's Lymphoma research -- Paediatric HIV care -- Evolution of resistance and treatment policy for malaria in Ghana -- Dying to give life: the case of maternal deaths in Ghana -- Caesarean section (CS): Developmental history, outcomes and new trends including CS for maternal request -- Cervical incompetence in contemporary obstetric practice -- Improving maternal health: Are we involving our men? -- The way forward.
9789988201494
RG966.G4.T67
Includes index.
Contents: Brief history of child health in Korle-Bu -- New-born deaths: A major challenge to achieving millennium development goals -- Child development services: The key to increasing economic gain and preventing developmental disorders and disability in Ghana -- The child who does not speak: The face of autism in Accra -- Child abuse in Ghana: a 4-year tertiary centre experience -- Outcome of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at the paediatric oncology unit, Korle-Bu teaching hospital, Accra, Ghana: a 5-year review -- Burkitt's Lymphoma research -- Paediatric HIV care -- Evolution of resistance and treatment policy for malaria in Ghana -- Dying to give life: the case of maternal deaths in Ghana -- Caesarean section (CS): Developmental history, outcomes and new trends including CS for maternal request -- Cervical incompetence in contemporary obstetric practice -- Improving maternal health: Are we involving our men? -- The way forward.
9789988201494
RG966.G4.T67