Infants and Young Children in Orphanages: One View from Pediatrics and Child Psychiatry

Explores pediatric and child psychiatric research covering five areas of potential biological and social risk to infants and children in orphanage care, specifically, infectious morbidity, nutrition, growth, cognitive and socioaffective development, and physical and sexual abuse. Results showed that...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 1996-04, Vol.97 (4), p.569-578
Main Author: Frank, Deborah A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adverse Impact
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Analysis. Health state
Babies
Biological and medical sciences
Care and treatment
Child
Child Abuse
Child Abuse, Sexual
Child Development
Child Health
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Child Welfare
Child, Preschool
Children
Cognitive Development
Communicable Diseases - mortality
Communicable diseases in children
Epidemiology
Family
Foster Home Care
General aspects
Growth
Health aspects
Humans
Infant
Institutionalized Persons
Longitudinal Studies
Medical sciences
Nutrition
Orphanages
Orphans
Pediatric communicable diseases
Pediatrics
Poor children
Poverty
Prevention
Problem children
Psychiatry
Public Assistance
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Public Policy
Risk Factors
Sexual Abuse
Social aspects
Social Development
United States - epidemiology
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Summary:Explores pediatric and child psychiatric research covering five areas of potential biological and social risk to infants and children in orphanage care, specifically, infectious morbidity, nutrition, growth, cognitive and socioaffective development, and physical and sexual abuse. Results showed that institutionalization in early childhood increases the likelihood that impoverished children will grow into psychiatrically impaired and economically unproductive adults. (MOK)
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275