ONPRRS (platform created with the aim of developing PRRS control programs

ONPRRS (platform created with the aim of developing PRRS control programs in Spain composed by researchers from UAB, UdL, UCM and IRTA, and supported by Hipra, Merial, MSD and SYVA) and W. Wolfe for technical support and advice.PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0149690 March 1,18 /H-Index in Swine DiseasesAuthor ContributionsConceived and designed the experiments: ID MC AO JS. Performed the experiments: ID MC. Analyzed the data: ID MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ID MC. Wrote the paper: ID MC AO JS.
“If you want the truth, ask a child. . .” –Portion of Danish proverb (Sandheden skal man h e fra b n) Registration of a child’s birth is one of the more fundamental, far reaching, and troublesome, steps for securing the health and happiness of a society [1]. Registration is noted as a vital, basic human right. It allows children to be counted and acknowledged by a government, and is the first line of protection for shielding children from underage labor, marriage, prostitution, trafficking, and military conscription [2, 3, 4]. Registration, and increasingly having a physical birth certificate, is also vital to ensure that children receive access to healthcare or vaccination [5, 6, 7], and is required for many children to enter schooling, travel, gain employment; and therefore is directly tied to their own, and their communities,’ health and future development. At the same time, despite need to fpsyg.2016.01503 formally recognize and record child births, this is one of the more persistently problematic issues affecting many developing regions [8, 9, 10]. Recent findings by UNICEF [7] estimate that over 30 of the world’s children–56 in sub-Saharan Africa where we conducted the present study–are not registered. Even fewer have birth certificates. Low registration levels have been attributed to a number of reasons, such as lack of infrastructure, transportation, sociocultural factors causing delay or avoidance, or even lack of basic motivation in parents; and has been met with a number of on the ground assessments and implementations [9, 11, 12, 13]. However, despite much effort in study and policy implementations, it is also a well established finding that current PD98059 site approaches have often been disappointingly ineffective at substantially increasing numbers of children registered at birth, or even later in their development [13]. This has led to calls for new answers regarding why children’s births have not been recorded by parents and j.jebo.2013.04.005 policy solutions. Interestingly, one avenue that has not been considered is that of asking children what they themselves know about the need, the process and the improvement in certification of their own births. The importance of such study might be framed in several ways. It may be illuminating to PD98059 web discover what children do know about their rights and necessities regarding registration because it does play such an important role regarding their opportunities and health, or if children’s understanding differs materially from that of adults. This fits a growing realization in social and policy research, especially in Western countries, that children have a voice that should be considered [14, 15], as well as findings that children’s own knowledge, or parentchild communication, may play a key role in improving programs related to demographics and health [16]. At the same time, with older children who may soon be specifically impacted by requirements for birth certificates in order to continue with schooling or e.ONPRRS (platform created with the aim of developing PRRS control programs in Spain composed by researchers from UAB, UdL, UCM and IRTA, and supported by Hipra, Merial, MSD and SYVA) and W. Wolfe for technical support and advice.PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0149690 March 1,18 /H-Index in Swine DiseasesAuthor ContributionsConceived and designed the experiments: ID MC AO JS. Performed the experiments: ID MC. Analyzed the data: ID MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ID MC. Wrote the paper: ID MC AO JS.
“If you want the truth, ask a child. . .” –Portion of Danish proverb (Sandheden skal man h e fra b n) Registration of a child’s birth is one of the more fundamental, far reaching, and troublesome, steps for securing the health and happiness of a society [1]. Registration is noted as a vital, basic human right. It allows children to be counted and acknowledged by a government, and is the first line of protection for shielding children from underage labor, marriage, prostitution, trafficking, and military conscription [2, 3, 4]. Registration, and increasingly having a physical birth certificate, is also vital to ensure that children receive access to healthcare or vaccination [5, 6, 7], and is required for many children to enter schooling, travel, gain employment; and therefore is directly tied to their own, and their communities,’ health and future development. At the same time, despite need to fpsyg.2016.01503 formally recognize and record child births, this is one of the more persistently problematic issues affecting many developing regions [8, 9, 10]. Recent findings by UNICEF [7] estimate that over 30 of the world’s children–56 in sub-Saharan Africa where we conducted the present study–are not registered. Even fewer have birth certificates. Low registration levels have been attributed to a number of reasons, such as lack of infrastructure, transportation, sociocultural factors causing delay or avoidance, or even lack of basic motivation in parents; and has been met with a number of on the ground assessments and implementations [9, 11, 12, 13]. However, despite much effort in study and policy implementations, it is also a well established finding that current approaches have often been disappointingly ineffective at substantially increasing numbers of children registered at birth, or even later in their development [13]. This has led to calls for new answers regarding why children’s births have not been recorded by parents and j.jebo.2013.04.005 policy solutions. Interestingly, one avenue that has not been considered is that of asking children what they themselves know about the need, the process and the improvement in certification of their own births. The importance of such study might be framed in several ways. It may be illuminating to discover what children do know about their rights and necessities regarding registration because it does play such an important role regarding their opportunities and health, or if children’s understanding differs materially from that of adults. This fits a growing realization in social and policy research, especially in Western countries, that children have a voice that should be considered [14, 15], as well as findings that children’s own knowledge, or parentchild communication, may play a key role in improving programs related to demographics and health [16]. At the same time, with older children who may soon be specifically impacted by requirements for birth certificates in order to continue with schooling or e.