Table of Contents

• Preface
• Human Rights of Children
• Immunization in Developing Countries
• Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Neonatal Survival
• Psychosocial Considerations
• Traditional Health Practices
• Water and Sanitization
• Conditions
• Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease
• Amebiasis
• Ancylostomiasis
• Ascariasis
• Beriberi
• Burkitt Lymphoma
• Burns
• Buruli Ulcer
• Carrion Disease
• Cat-Scratch Disease
• Chukungunya Fever
• Cholera
• Cutaneous Larva Migrans
• Cysticercosis
• Dengue
• Diphtheria
• Dracunculiasis
• Ebola Virus Disease
• Echinococcosis
• Filariasis, Lymphatic
• Giardiasis
• HIV and AIDS
• Hypothyroidism, Congenital
• Japanese Encephalitis
• Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous
• Leishmaniasis, Visceral
• Leprosy
• Loiasis
• Malaria
• Malnutrition
• Measles
• Melioidosis
• Meningococcernia
• Molluscum Contagiosum
• Mumps
• Noma
• Onchocerciasis
• Pediculosis
• Pellagra
• Plague
• Poliomyelitis
• Postreptococcal Glomerulonephritis
• Pyomyositis, Tropical
• Rabies
• Rickets
• Scabies
• Schistosomiasis
• Scurvy
• Snakebite
• Tetanus
• Tinea
• Toxocariasis
• Trachoma
• Trichuriasis
• Trypanosomiasis, African
• Trypanosomiasis, American
• Tuberculosis
• Tungiasis
• Typhoid Fever
• Varicella-Zoster Virus and Herpes Zoster
• Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
• Vitamin A Deficiency
• Yaws
• Yellow Fever
• Appendix A: Treatment Table
• Appendix B: Weight-for-Height Tables
• Appendix C: Instructions for Using the Mid-Upper Arm Circumference Assessment
• Index

About the Author

Dr. Jonathan M. Spector, MD, MPH, FAAP, has been a practicing pediatrician and public health professional for 15 years. His clinical work spans caring for children with malnutrition in remote Africa to intensive newborn care at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital. He became acutely attuned to the role of health systems in protecting patient safety and delivering high quality care, and this fueled a portfolio of research relating to maternal and newborn health in resource-poor settings. At the research institutes of a multi-national pharmaceutical company, he currently works on humanitarian initiatives
including a national program to control rheumatic heart disease in Zambia. Timothy E. Gibson, MD, FAAP, is the Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine Division Director, UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center, and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Residency Assistant Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School.