scholarly journals Surveillance for Wilms tumour in at-risk children: pragmatic recommendations for best practice

2006 ◽  
Vol 91 (12) ◽  
pp. 995-999 ◽  
Author(s):  
R H Scott ◽  
L Walker ◽  
O E Olsen ◽  
G Levitt ◽  
I Kenney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Wilms Tumour ◽  
At Risk Children

Fifteen-minute consultation: Assessment, surveillance and management of hemihypertrophy

2017 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 114-117
Author(s):  
Catherine Mark ◽  
Caroline Hart ◽  
Anthony McCarthy ◽  
Andrew Thompson
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Wilms Tumour ◽  
Surveillance Strategy ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
General Paediatrician ◽  
Uncommon Condition ◽  
Concise Guide ◽  
And Child Health

This article aims to provide a structured and concise guide for the general paediatrician managing a child with hemihypertrophy. Hemihypertrophy is a relatively uncommon condition. The significance is that a proportion of those affected are at risk of developing malignancies in childhood. For these children regular surveillance is required. We have outlined how one might assess and investigate a child presenting with hemihypertrophy. We have also formulated a practicable surveillance strategy which is in line with the current Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) guideline ‘Wilms’ tumour surveillance in at-risk children’.

The Sports Challenge International Programme for Identified ‘At Risk' Children and Adolescents: A Singapore Study

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
GJ Tester ◽  
GG Watkins ◽  
I Rouse
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
International Programme ◽  
Successful Transfer ◽  
Sense Of Shame

The current world wide phenomena of youth suicide which became a major issue for countries in the early nineties, is still growing exponentially. The Sports Challenge program was initiated in 1992 in Western Australia to identify ‘at risk' children and adolescents who display: a low sense of basic trust, a sense of shame and doubt, a sense of inferiority and a sense of identity confusion with common characteristics of low self esteem. The subsequent program is based on a strong statistical paradigm encompassing current and historical information with reliable and objective evaluation measures. To this end, since 1992, Sports Challenge has been recognised as a ‘World Best Practice' in redressing the issue of ‘at risk' children and adolescents. The program now operates in over 150 schools and communities throughout Australia and 24 schools and Detention Centres in Singapore. This paper will allow a window into the development of the program and the successful transfer of the project into Singapore. The Singapore study which began in 1996 has revealed the success of the Sports Challenge program cross culturally with improvement in self esteem and self concept of ‘at risk' groups in the range of 18% to 44%.

Un Kilo de Ayuda

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Kay Gugerty ◽  
Dean Karlan
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
Monitoring Data ◽  
Program Monitoring ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right

This case explores two common challenges facing organizations around the world: how to collect the right amount of data, and how to credibly use outcome data collected during program monitoring. Health promoters at Un Kilo de Ayuda (UKA) in Mexico use regularly collected health data on more than 50,000 children to structure their work, track their progress, and identify at-risk children in time to treat health problems. In this case, readers will assess the tradeoffs between actionability and responsibility that UKA faces in determining how much data to collect. They will also examine the challenges of monitoring data on a program’s outcomes instead of outputs, particularly when it comes to asserting a program’s impact on those outcomes. Finally, readers will propose ways to generate credible data on one of the organization’s programs when plans for an impact evaluation fall through.

Protecting Against Delinquency in Early Adolescence With Nonverbal Intelligence and Neighborhood Social Capital

2021 ◽  
pp. 027243162110203
Author(s):  
Glenn D. Walters
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Nonverbal Intelligence ◽  
Neighborhood Social Capital ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Childhood Conduct Problems ◽  
Matrix Reasoning

The goal of this study was to test nonverbal intelligence and neighborhood social capital as protective factors against future delinquency in early adolescent youth placed at risk by virtue of their involvement in childhood conduct problems. Analyzing longitudinal data from 3,028 youth (1,565 boys, 1,463 girls) in one cohort of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) and 3,682 youth (1,896 boys, 1,786 girls) in a second cohort of the LSAC, nonverbal intelligence, as measured by the Matrix Reasoning subscale of the WISC-IV, displayed a consistent moderating effect on the conduct problems–future delinquency relationship. According to these results, conduct problems were slightly but significantly less likely to lead to delinquency when nonverbal intelligence was high than when it was low or moderate. By shielding at-risk children from future delinquency, protective factors like high nonverbal intelligence may provide a means by which delinquency can be prevented or reduced.

Reducing asthma hospitalisations in at‐risk children: A systematic review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Y H Chen ◽  
Leanne Saxon ◽  
Colin Robertson ◽  
Harriet Hiscock
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
At Risk ◽  
At Risk Children

Looking for and replicating model programs for ‘at risk’ children and families

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Frank Ainsworth
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Family Preservation ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
Systematic Effort ◽  
The Us ◽  
Program Innovation ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Model Programs

At the present time there is a need for a new generation of programs to address the needs of ‘at risk’ children and families. This is an issue that is exercising the minds of service planners in both government and non-government community service organisations. This need arises from the fact that many existing programs have yet to be rigorously evaluated and are of questionable effectiveness. This lack of evidence of effectiveness does not sit well in the current climate of accountability. It also runs contrary to the increasingly strident calls for evidence based practice.Many new programs arrive in Australia from the US as this country is often the source of program innovation as illustrated by the importation in the 1980s and 1990s of family preservation and family reunification programs. In the US, promotion of ‘model programs' has taken another step and a systematic effort at program replication is now in evidence. The question is, how might model programs from overseas be successfully replicated in Australia? And what is required, if anything, to replicate these models effectively taking account of our different cultural traditions?

SUCCESS FOR YOUNG AT‐RISK CHILDREN: TREAT THEM AS WE TREAT ALL CHILDREN

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Sanacore ◽  
Sandra Wilsusen
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
Treat All
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