Childhood malnutrition and mental development.

Date:
1986
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Description

A talk to camera in which Dr. Grantham-McGregor discusses the problems which arise in assessing whether children who have survived malnutrition are consequently impaired in their mental development or whether social factors are responsible for poor mental development, such as poor housing and sanitation, lack of toys and books. In the course of her inquiry, she points to the difficulties of measuring cognitive functions in developing countries, and to the variability of the condition itself. She examines nutritional implementational studies and research into behaviour problems in undernourished children and looks at comparisons between the progress of adopted children, previously malnourished, and those who remained with their original families.

Publication/Creation

UK : University of London Audio-Visual Centre, 1986.

Physical description

1 videocassette (digibeta) (41.05 min.) : sound, color, PAL.
1 DVD (41.05 min.) : sound, color, PAL.
1 videocassette (U-matic) (41.05) : sound, color, PAL.

Notes

Supporting paperwork available in the department.
This tape is one of more than 120 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and early 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest.

Creator/production credits

Presented by Dr Sally Grantham-McGregor, Tropical Metabolism REsearch Unit, University of the West Indies. Made for Department of Human Nutrition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), by University of London Audio-Visual Centre. Production team: David Crawford, Christine Hollow, John Winn. Directed and edited by Trevor A Scott. Graphic design by John Garbera. Additional illustrations by courtesy of TEAR foundation.

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University of London

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