Browsing Duke Faculty Articles by Author "0112584"

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

Pence, Brian Wells; Whetten, Rachel; Messer, Lynne Corinne; Ostermann, Jan; Whetten, Kathryn; Buckner, Megan; Thielman, Nathan Maclyn; O'Donnell, Karen Jones (BioMed Central, 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 ...
A Comparison of the Wellbeing of Orphans and Abandoned Children Ages 6-12 in Institutional and Community-Based Care Settings in 5 Less Wealthy Nations

Whetten, Kathryn; Ostermann, Jan; Whetten, Rachel; Pence, Brian; O'Donnell, Karen; Messer, Lynne; Thielman, Nathan (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2009)

Background: Leaders are struggling to care for the estimated 143,000,000 orphans and millions more abandoned children worldwide. Global policy makers are advocating that institution-living orphans and abandoned children ...
A Comparison of the Wellbeing of Orphans and Abandoned Children Ages 6–12 in Institutional and Community-Based Care Settings in 5 Less Wealthy Nations

Whetten, Kathryn; Ostermann, Jan; Whetten, Rachel; Pence, Brian Wells; O'Donnell, Karen Jones; Messer, Lynne Corinne; Thielman, Nathan Maclyn (Public Library of Science, 2009-12)

Background Leaders are struggling to care for the estimated 143,000,000 orphans and millions more abandoned children worldwide. Global policy makers are advocating that institution-living orphans and abandoned children ...
Correlates of Poor Health among Orphans and Abandoned Children in Less Wealthy Countries: The Importance of Caregiver Health

Ostermann, Jan; Whetten, Kathryn; Whetten, Rachel; O'Donnell, Karen Jones (Public Library of Science, 2012-06)

Background More than 153 million children worldwide have been orphaned by the loss of one or both parents, and millions more have been abandoned. We investigated relationships between the health of orphaned and abandoned ...
Prevalence and predictors of HIV-related stigma among institutional- and community-based caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children living in five less-wealthy countries

Messer, Lynne Corinne; Pence, Brian Wells; Whetten, Kathryn; Whetten, Rachel; Thielman, Nathan Maclyn; O'Donnell, Karen Jones; Ostermann, Jan (BioMed Central, 2010)

Background In the face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic that has contributed to the dramatic increase in orphans and abandoned children (OAC) worldwide, caregiver attitudes about HIV, and HIV-related stigma, are two attributes ...