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Bookmark or Share- Child mortality and causes of death - World Health Organization (WHO)Unless swift action is not taken to improve health services and quality of care for newborns and children under-5, many young lives will be unnecessarily lost. Globally, infectious diseases, including acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea and malaria, along with pre-term birth complications, birth asphyxia and trauma and congenital anomalies ...
- Child growth standards - World Health Organization (WHO)The WHO Child Growth Standards. This web site presents the WHO Child Growth Standards. These standards were developed using data collected in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study.
- Children: new threats to health - World Health Organization (WHO)Children are also exposed to via bullying, exploitation, and contact with criminals and sexual predators. Injuries, violence and conflict . Road injury is the leading cause of death for children and young people aged five to 29 years. And more than 1 billion children — half of all children —are exposed to violence every year.
- Weight-for-age - World Health Organization (WHO)Access WHO's weight-for-age standards, including charts and methods for assessing child growth patterns from birth to 5 years.
- Child growth - World Health Organization (WHO)An estimated 144 million children under age 5 are stunted, 47 million are wasted and 38.3 million have overweight or obesity. Around 45% of deaths among children under 5 years of age are linked to undernutrition. Measuring the growth of infants and children is an important part of child health surveillance.
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