Karen O'Donnell

Journal Article AIDS Behav · February 2012 Assessment of children's learning and performance in low and middle income countries has been critiqued as lacking a gold standard, an appropriate norm reference group, and demonstrated applicability of assessment tasks to the context. This study was desig ... Full text Link to item Cite

Child work and labour among orphaned and abandoned children in five low and middle income countries.

Journal Article BMC Int Health Hum Rights · January 13, 2011 BACKGROUND: The care and protection of the estimated 143,000,000 orphaned and abandoned children (OAC) worldwide is of great importance to global policy makers and child service providers in low and middle income countries (LMICs), yet little is known abou ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Effects of iodine supplementation during pregnancy on child growth and development at school age.

Journal Article Dev Med Child Neurol · February 2002 Growth and development of 207 children (49% males; mean age 5.4 years [SD 0.2], range 4 to 7.3 years whose mothers received iodine during pregnancy, and children who received iodine first in their 2nd year, were examined in 1996; 192 children (49% males; m ... Full text Link to item Cite