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The Transition from Welfare to Work [PDF]

We consider the effects the child care market, child care vouchers, early childhood education programs, and welfare reforms have on welfare recipients in their transition from welfare to work.
Ann Dryden Witte, Robert J. Lemke, Robert J. Witt   +2 more
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The power of machine learning models in predicting gestational diabetes mellitus

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with various adverse outcomes in pregnancy for the mother and the baby. Precise prediction of GDM trends are crucial for public health.
Vahid Mehrnoush, Ali Haghighat, Anna Nami, Nazanin Rezaei, Fatemeh Darsareh, Farideh Montazeri, Mozhgan Saffari   +6 more
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‘I Think It’s So Complicated Knowing What to Make of What Children Show’: On Child Welfare Employees’ Assessments of Children’s Reactions to Visitation

Social Sciences
The theme of this article is how child welfare workers understand children’s reactions when they assess visitation between parents and children in public care in Norway. The data material consists of 35 transcribed, anonymised recordings of child welfare
Tanja Røed Larsen
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Predicting mother and newborn skin-to-skin contact using a machine learning approach

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Background Despite the known benefits of skin-to-skin contact (SSC), limited data exists on its implementation, especially its influencing factors. The current study was designed to use machine learning (ML) to identify the predictors of SSC.
Sanaz Safarzadeh, Nastaran Safavi Ardabili, Mohammadsadegh Vahidi Farashah, Nasibeh Roozbeh, Fatemeh Darsareh   +4 more
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Building Black community accountability in child welfare: Provincial contexts and Black service provider experiences across three jurisdictions

Child Protection and Practice
The disproportionate representation of Black children in Canadian child welfare systems has spurred significant scrutiny and calls for reform. This study examines the crucial role of Black service providers in Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta in fostering ...
Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, Travonne Edwards, Bryn King, Bukola Salami   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pregnancy and Childbirth Outcomes of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Cohort Study [PDF]

Disease and Diagnosis
Background: Understanding the various outcomes of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is essential for initiating a cascade of preparatory steps to address them. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the pregnancy and childbirth outcomes of GDM.
Fatemeh Darsareh, Malihe Shirzadfard Jahromi, Amene Ranjbar, Mitra Shekari, Vahid Mehrnoush, Nasibeh Roozbeh   +5 more
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A Theory of Exploitative Child Labor [PDF]

Child labor laws should aim to protect children who work, instead of trying to remove children from work. In this paper, we identify an instance when the risk of exploitation lowers the expected bene…t of child labor to the child,and therefore suppresses
Rogers Carol Ann, Swinnerton Kenneth A
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Using Intermediary Structures to Support Families: An International Comparison of Practice in Child Protection [PDF]

, 2001
Responses to child maltreatment can be conceptualized as a continuum, ranging from a welfare-oriented approach on one end, to a legalistic emphasis at the other end.
Freymond, Nancy Colleen
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Measuring social and community services for children, youth, and families in contact with the child welfare system: A scoping review

Child Protection and Practice
Background: Administrative data can be used to systematically analyze and evaluate social and community services for families in contact with the child welfare system.
Lindsay Crompton, Nicholas Chu, Nathaniel J. Pollock, John Fluke, Lil Tonmyr   +4 more
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‘When One Door Shuts, Another Opens’: Turning Disadvantages into Opportunities [PDF]

, 2002
For many years, the child and family welfare and the child protection systems in the Netherlands have been under heavy criticism. Numerous experts in these fields have been advocating more intensive co-operation and a better coherence between both ...
Veldkamp, A.W.M.
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