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AimThis study set out to examine how Primary Care Organisations (PCOs) in England manage, organise and deliver their safeguarding children responsibilities.BackgroundIn the light of changing organisational configurations across primary care, a wealth of policy directives and a climate of extensive media attention around child protection, this paper focuses on how PCOs respond to national policy and deliver safeguarding children services.MethodThis study, based in England, United Kingdom (UK), used a telephone survey method incorporating semi-structured qualitative interviews with Designated Child Protection Nurses. A maximum variation sampling strategy was used to identify two to three PCOs within each of the original 28 Strategic Health Authority sites. From the 64 PCOs approached, 60 Designated Nurses or their representatives agreed to participate in the research, with a response rate of 94%. Data analysis was informed primarily by Lincoln and Guba's (1985) three stages of a) unitising, b) categorising and c) pattern search.FindingsThe findings outline how and to what extent PCOs respond to the national policy and organise and deliver their child protection services. The paper highlights some of the key challenges facing PCOs, in particular, safeguarding moving off the primary care agenda, child protection staff recruitment difficulties, a proliferation and overload of policy, resource implications for additional staff training, challenges to collaborative working, high referral thresholds to social care services and cutbacks in public health nursing services. This paper concludes by offering some suggestions about how child protection services could be improved as primary care faces another major reorganisation with the demise of Primary Care Trusts in April 2013. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Objective. To describe the Medical Insurance for a New Generation (SMNG) as key public policy aimed at improving health care services for children under the age of five years in Mexico. Materials and methods. This paper analyzes interrelated aspects of public policies to provide health care to Mexican children: a) the demographic and health status of children, with emphasis on the wide disparities between children of varying demographics; b) the relationship of the main functions of a health care system: financing, equity, access and quality, with the provision of health care for children; c) the architecture of the Medical Insurance for a New Generation. Conclusion. SMNG is a program that can be instrumental in lowering infant mortality and alleviating the burden of families to care for sick children by improving access, quality of care and equity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Infant welfare work by women supporters of the Truby King system for the feeding and care of babies included initiatives by nurses who conveyed his routines along the trade routes of Empire. After the First World War, Dr Truby King's appeal as an infant welfare authority was transnational, across the British world. This article analyses the work of four women with a nursing background who promoted the Truby King system of mothercraft in the south-eastern States of Australia in the 1920s and 1930s. It examines these nurse devotees' motives, initiatives, and degree of success in the context of constraints imposed by medical rivalries, paternalism, and State politics. The findings offer insights into the transfer of maternal and child health policies and practices in the British Empire, as well as into the nurses' lives and principles, and demonstrate that nurses and matrons effected transfers on the ground. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the legislation of Bill 203 or The Jordan's Principle Implementation Act as well as the involvement of physician Jon Gerrard to the bill in Manitoba. It discusses the passage and reception of the bill in the Legislature, the House Resolution in 2008, the terms in implementing Jordan's Principle, and examples of Jordan's Principle in action. The advocacy of Gerrard for the health issues of children and on the implementation of Jordan's Principle is also mentioned.