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Child alcohol use disorder in Eastern Uganda: screening, diagnostics, risk factors and management of children drinking alcohol in Uganda (TREAT CAUD): a mixed-methods research protocol
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Following a finding of alcohol use among children aged 5–8 years old in Mbale, Uganda, this project investigates the magnitude of alcohol and substance use among children ged 6–13 years old and related household, ... -
Child and adolescent mental health services in Uganda
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Introduction Worldwide, one in five children and adolescents suffer from mental health disorders, while facing limited opportunities for treatment and recovery. Growing up, they face multiple challenges that might contribute ... -
Child and Caregiver Reporting on Child Maltreatment and Mental Health in the Philippines Before and After an International Child Development Program (ICDP) Parenting Intervention
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Child maltreatment is a serious problem affecting millions of children. Research on self-reporting of child maltreatment has shown a difference in reporting between caregivers and children. Increased understanding of this ... -
Child and maternal malnutrition: A cohort study from a drought-prone area in southern Ethiopia
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-10-18)Bakgrunn: I Etiopia er underernæring hos barn og mødre fortsatt store folkehelseproblemer, spesielt i landlige og fattige husholdninger. Landet er langt fra å nå de globale ernæringsmålene, selv om ernæringspolitikk og ... -
Child begging as a manifestation of child Labour in Dagbon of Northern Ghana, the perspectives of mallams and parents
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-05)The existence of begging in Ghana is a historical phenomenon. In the past, it was interpreted in religious and geographical terms where the beggars in the capital city of Accra were said to be destitute Muslims coming from ... -
Child Care Practices, Resources for Care, and Nutritional Outcomes in Ghana: Findings from Demographic and Health Surveys
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-03-19)Introduction: The overarching empirical question of this study is this: how are children growing in Ghana and how is childcare related to child growth? Child health is a fundamental public health issue, for children's sake ... -
Child development in rural Burkina Faso. Association between maternal alcohol consumption, stunting, schooling, and neuropsychological outcomes
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-06-04)Introduction: The general aim of this thesis was to evaluate the association of maternal alcohol consumption, stunting (low height-for-age) and schooling on neuropsychological outcomes among children in rural Burkina Faso ... -
Child health and child care of very young children in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-05-31)With the global progress in reduction of child mortality, an increasing concern for the health, development and well-being of the surviving child has emerged. It is estimated that 250 million children are not reaching their ... -
Child health in a Ugandan cohort: Studies on survival, vaccination and malaria
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-10-24)Background: To reduce under-five mortality according to Millennium Development Goal 4, infant mortality must be reduced considerably. The aim of this thesis was to measure perinatal and infant mortality and to explore ... -
Child injuries in Bergen, Norway : identifying high-risk groups and activity specific injuries
(Doctoral thesis, 2006-11-24)Sammendrag (Norwegian summary) Formålet med denne studien var å undersøke forekomsten av barneulykker i Bergen sammenliknet med forekomsten andre steder innenlands og utenlands. Vi ønsket å undersøke hvilke barn, karakterisert ... -
Child Labour in Petty Trading (Hawking Business) in Ghana: A Case Study of the Madina and Abokobi areas in the Ga East District.
(Master thesis, 2012-12-03)This thesis discusses the conditions of child hawkers involved in child labour in the areas of Abokobi and Madina in the Ga East District as well as measures taken to assist child hawkers and the challenges, in the Ga East ... -
Child mental illness and the help-seeking process: a qualitative study among parents in a Ugandan community
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01-11)Abstract Background: Child mental illness contributes signifcantly to the burden of disease worldwide, and many are left untreated due to factors on both the provider and user side. Recognising this, the Ugandan Ministry ... -
Child Physical Growth and Care Practices in Kenya: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-03-18)Background: The aims of this dissertation were to describe trends in child undernutrition in Kenya manifest as poor physical growth, along with trends in feeding care practices, and to examine socio-demographic correlates ... -
Child Poverty and Social Protection in Central and Western Africa
(CROP International Poverty Studies;5, Book, 2020-04)In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Livingstone declaration, and the UN Social Protection Floor, this book deals jointly with multi-dimensional child poverty and social protection in Western and ... -
Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment, and Social Inclusion
(CROP International Poverty Studies ; vol. 1, Book; Peer reviewed, 2016-12-06)Worldwide child and youth poverty remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while ... -
Child Protection in Upper Manya District of Ghana: Caregivers Perspectives
(Master thesis, 2014-05-19)Abstract Introduction and Objectives: Ghana was one of the first countries to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and has since then nationalised it into a local law known as the Children's ... -
Child survival and BCG vaccination: A community based prospective cohort study in Uganda
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-02-22)Background Data on non-specific effects of BCG vaccination in well described, general population African cohorts is scanty. We report the effects of BCG vaccination on post-neonatal infant and post-infancy mortality in a ... -
Child trafficking in Tanzania: Experiences of Trafficked Girls in Dar es Salaam
(Master thesis, 2011-05-13)This study focuses on the experiences of trafficked children in Tanzania. Trafficking of children deprives them of human rights and freedoms; it may also pose a public health risk. Migration of children who are fostered ... -
Child undernutrition in Kenya: trend analyses from 1993 to 2008-09
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-01-13)Background: Research on trends in child undernutrition in Kenya has been hindered by the challenges of changing criteria for classifying undernutrition, and an emphasis in the literature on international comparisons of ... -
Child welfare and future assessments – An analysis of discretionary decision-making in newborn removals in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09)This study explores a particularly wide discretionary space set for decision-making within the Norwegian welfare bureaucracy; care order decisions concerning newborns directly removed from the hospital by the child protection ...