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Bookmark or Share- Child healthSurvival is just one of many issues relevant to children’s health. Child health, growth and development are inseparable. In 2016, at least 250 million children were not able to reach their full physical or psychological development. This represents the staggering figure of 43%. Violence against children is also rampant.
- Child Health and Development - World Health Organization (WHO)WHO’s Child Health and Development Unit develops guidelines and implementation tools to support the nurturing care agenda. It also works with governments to strengthen policies and services so that they deliver essential interventions with quality and equity, and support caregivers to provide nurturing care.
- Rethinking the child health agenda - World Health Organization (WHO)The survival of children under 5 years of age was the principal focus of the global child health agenda over past decades. As a result, a child mortality was reduced by 60% between 1990 and 2019. High rates of under-five mortality are now concentrated in certain geographic regions (especially sub-Saharan Africa) and in vulnerable populations.
- Children's environmental health - World Health Organization (WHO)The environment determines a child’s future: early life exposures impact on adult health as fetal programming and early growth may be altered by environmental risk factors. Adverse environmental conditions and pollution are a major contributor to childhood deaths, illnesses and disability, particularly in developing countries.
- Children: new threats to health - World Health Organization (WHO)Air pollution is associated with poor childhood respiratory health; it impairs the lungs and the brain and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome across the child’s lifespan. Climate-related health risks are compounded amongst the 40% of the world’s children who live in informal ...
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