Critical health infrastructure for refugee resettlement in rural Australia: case study of four rural towns.

Objective: To explore the reported impact of regional resettlement of refugees on rural health services, and identify critical health infrastructure for refugee resettlement.

Design: Comparative case study, using interviews and situational analysis.

Setting: Four rural communities in New South Wales, which had been the focus of regional resettlement of refugees since 1999.

Worldwide timing of growth faltering: implications for nutritional interventions.

Objective: It is widely assumed that growth faltering starts at around 3 months of age, but there has been no systematic assessment of its timing using representative national datasets from a variety of countries.

Methodology: The World Health Organization Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition includes the results of 39 nationally representative datasets from recent surveys in developing countries. Based on these data, mean z scores of weight for age, length/height for age, and weight for length/height were compared with the National Center for Health Statistics and Cambridge growth references, for children younger than 60 months.