Global Health Care

This Special Interest Group was approved by the NAPNAP Executive Board in Spring 2002. Please contact Beth Richardson DNS, RN, CPNP at vrichar@iupui.edu for additional information on activities.

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New resources to help increase influenza vaccination children with asthma are now available from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID). Click www.nfid.org to access various tools and strategies that can be customized for use in clinical settings to help address immunization barriers and improve parent education.  NAPNAP supports the goals of NFID's initiative and encourages members to share these materials with colleagues.  

Articles of Interest on this Subject

Child Health in Impoverished Nations: A Professional Issue?
Deborah Callender
Journal of Pediatric Health Care
November 2007 (Vol. 21, Issue 6, Pages 417-420)

Responding Globally to Children
Julia R. Plotnick, MPH, RN, FAAN, RADM, USPHS (ret)
Journal of Pediatric Health Care
November/December 2007; Vol 21, No. 6; pp. 357-359

Child Health Care Decision Making and Experiences of Caribbean Women

Yearwood EL

Journal of Pediatric Health Care

March 2007; Vol. 21, No. 2; pp. 89-98

Comparison of Children's Fears of Medical Experiences Across Two Cultures

Mahat G, Scoloveno MA, Cannella B

Journal of Pediatric Health Care
November 2004, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 302  307

Problem Behavior in 3-Year-Old Children in the United Arab Emirates

Eapen V, Yuinis F, Zoubeid T,  Sabri S

Journal of Pediatric Health Care
July/August 2004, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp 188 - 191