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Helping Babies: The Mental And Physical Effects Of Massage Therapy On Preterm Infants, Sadie Johnson
Helping Babies: The Mental And Physical Effects Of Massage Therapy On Preterm Infants, Sadie Johnson
Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology
The purpose of this paper is to address and review the literature regarding the effects of massage therapy on preterm infants. Each of the studies done focused on infants aged 0–12 months. The literature specifically looks at irritability states, stress, analgesia, weight-gain, sleep-wake cycles, cognition, and gastrointestinal function. In accordance with the studies reviewed in this article, I deduce that massage therapy can be used with preterm infants to reduce irritability and stress, increase weight-gain, support greater rest, facilitate short-term cognitive improvement, and create a greater improvement in gastrointestinal function. Massage therapy can also reduce pain in infants who have …
Does Social Protection Affect Infant Welfare?, Felix Wisnu Handoyo
Does Social Protection Affect Infant Welfare?, Felix Wisnu Handoyo
Jurnal Ekonomi Kesehatan Indonesia
This research aims to assess the impact of conditional cash transfer (PKH) program on infant welfare. The poor people usually treated their babies inadequately due to of lack of resources. Government intervention by social protection program is expected to contribute to increase infant welfare. Infant welfare determines their quality of future life, and to some extent will determine the quality of human resources in a country. This research uses two micro data set which are Indonesia family life survey (IFLS) 4 and 5. The method is using econometrics with difference-in-differences (DiD) model to measure impact of the CCT program. Then, …