Background: More and more school-aged children in Canada and elsewhere are becoming
overweight or obese. Many countries are now reporting a similar trend among preschool …

Background Women with low incomes are at higher risk to have low‐birthweight (LBW)
babies and less likely to participate in prenatal support programmes than women with higher …

METHOD Questionnaireswere sent to all public health nurses in the province (N= 180), the
directors of all centres providing full-or part-day programs for preschool aged children (N= …

Male and female retarded readers at two age levels (6.5 to 8.5 vears and 10.5 to 12.5 years)
did not differ significantly on a number of perceptual, visual-motor, linguistic, and concept-…

Alors qu’on signale des taux de plus en plus élevés d’excès de poids et d’obésité chez les
enfants d’âge scolaire et les adultes au Canada, il existe peu d’études portant sur ce …

Comparisons with other occupations, which may be seen as entailing similar levels of
responsibility and training, indicate clearly that day care providers do not have comparable …

Examined associations among day care center quality, selected structure variables, provincial
legislation and funding, rural/urban location, and profit-seeking status across 48 centers in …

< para> A sample of 160 centres, 104 non-profit and 56 for-profit, from across Canada
participated in the study. The sample was drawn randomly from lists of centres obtained for each …

Given the unique opportunity to develop a preschool in an isolated environment we developed
a simple but effective model. This was to meet the projected needs of the community …

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the needs of child care personnel in rural areas and
to describe the various approaches used by Mount Saint Vincent's Department of Child Study …