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February 2010, Vol 100, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 201-204
© 2010 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.152439

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The Impact of Fathers’ Clubs on Child Health in Rural Haiti

Elizabeth Sloand, PhD, CRNP, Nan Marie Astone, PhD and Bette Gebrian, RN, MPH, PhD

Elizabeth Sloand is with the Hopkins University School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Nan Marie Astone is with the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Bette Gebrian is with the Haitian Health Foundation, Norwich, CT, and with the schools of Nursing and Medicine, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Elizabeth Sloand, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, 525 North Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21205 (e-mail: bsloand{at}son.jhmi.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking on the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

In recognition of the important role that fathers play in the lives of young children in Haiti, a public health organization instituted fathers’ clubs in 1994 as a strategy to improve the health outcomes of children. Fathers’ clubs focus on child and family health education. To evaluate the effectiveness of fathers’ clubs, we examined the health of children born in Haitian villages with and without active fathers’ clubs and compared results for the two groups. The presence of a fathers’ club in a child's birth village had a positive effect on vaccination status, growth monitoring, and vitamin A supplementation after we controlled for socioeconomic status, time, and the quality of the village health agent. Child weights and mortality were not affected by the fathers’ clubs.






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